#aviation-accident

#aviation-accident

A small, private plane crashed at the Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod on Sunday afternoon, catching fire and killing the pilot, who was the only person on board, city officials said. The fire department and mutual aid partners in Provincetown, which sits at the very tip of the Cape Cod just southeast of Boston, extinguished the fire and the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a city news release.

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The lawsuit also blamed American Airlines and its regional partner, PSA Airlines, for roles in the crash, but those airlines have filed motions to dismiss. At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew into the path of the American Airlines regional jet while it was landing at Ronald Reagan airport in northern Virginia, just across the river from Washington, DC, officials said.

We believe we have at least three fatalities. I believe that number is going to get larger,

Two people are dead after a Boeing 747 cargo plane landing at Hong Kong International Airport veered off the runway and into the sea on Monday. According to a statement from Hong Kong's civil aviation department, the incident happened at around 3:50 a.m. local time. The department said the flight, which was arriving from Dubai's Al Maktoum International Airport, had "deviated from the North Runway after landing and ditched into the sea."

Footage of the January incident at Alaska's Eielson Air Force base showed the jet tumbling downwards in the sky and hitting the ground, causing a fireball. A new report released this week by the Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board found that the ice in the landing gear caused the fighter's automatic systems to wrongly assume that it had landed even though it was still in the air, making the aircraft "uncontrollable."

Emergency services were called to the site near the A3020 Shanklin Road on Monday morning. A spokesman for Northumbria Helicopters said that its aircraft G-OCLV - which is listed as a Robinson R44 II helicopter - was involved in the accident during a flying lesson. The firm said: "The flight, which departed from Sandown Airport at approximately 9am, was carrying four passengers on board including the pilot, and was undertaking a flying lesson."

At least 31 people were killed, including 25 children, when a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in Dhaka.

"Recent media reports on the Air India 171 crash are premature and speculative. India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau just released its preliminary report. Investigations of this magnitude take time," NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a statement.

Initial reports suggest that a tragic helicopter collision occurred in western Finland, resulting in the death of all five individuals aboard the two helicopters.