Air and Space Accidents

ROGERSVILLE, Mo. -- This weekend, a benefit polo match will honor one of the victims of a plane crash near Willard. Robin Melton was one of five people killed when the small plane went down in a field off Missouri 123 last September.  Melton was a member...

Robo Raven is making aviation history – again. The robotic bird's maiden flights in December were a first in the history of flying machines, but lasted only seconds inside the Reckord Armory at the University of Maryland, College Park. Now the...

Four people were aboard a helicopter that crashed in Griffith Park on Thursday afternoon, but their injuries appear to be minor, authorities said. The crash was reported at 2:17 p.m., Los Angeles Fire Department officials said. At least one person was...

Emergency crews are responding to a helicopter that crashed in Griffith Park, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said. The crash was reported at 2:17 p.m. in the 2600 block of Observatory Road, according to LAFD officials. There were no immediate...

A helicopter on a routine flight over Los Angeles made a "hard landing" in Griffith Park around 2:17 p.m. Thursday after experiencing "mechanical problems," fire officials said.  The pilot and three passengers, who were not immediately identified,...

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The victims of an air cargo plane crash in Afghan include seven Michigan residents and a man from Kentucky. An Afghan official said Monday that a U.S.-Afghan investigation rules out insurgent involvement in the...

A helicopter on a training exercise crashed at a South Suburban airport this evening but there were no injuries reported, officials said. The incident happened at 6:45 p.m. at the Lansing Airport, 3250 Bob Malkas Dr. when the helicopter crashed during...

Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole has delayed a plan to let passengers carry small pocketknives on planes for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But it is clear from a speech he gave last week at George...

The "nude scanners" are gone. The full-body scanners that used X-rays to create what look like nude images of passengers have been packed away and removed from airports across the country. The 250 or so machines were removed about two weeks ago,...

The New Hope area pilot who was burned severely when his small, experimental airplane crashed along Route 611 in Doylestown Township on Saturday morning has died, a spokeswoman for Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia said Monday. John M. Szabo,...

The 69-year-old pilot of a small airplane that crashed just off Route 611 in Doylestown Saturday suffered severe burns and was taken by helicopter to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, where a spokesman reported him in critical condition in the...

The skies above the Mojave Desert are legendary. The first American jet plane flew here. The sound barrier was broken here. Space shuttles returned to Earth here. But less heralded are the failures and crashes, tragic footnotes to these remarkable...