#parachuting-accident

#parachuting-accident

Both of the Southwest pilots involved in this incident over the weekend told the air traffic controller that they received alarms from their collision avoidance systems that directed them to take action with one plane climbing while the other dove to avoid the potential midair collision.

Gary Williams, a 63-year-old man from Cranston, Rhode Island, was found about 15 to 20 feet away from the paramotor with life-threatening injuries after the crash.

The gondola apparently broke loose from its cable in strong winds, crashed, slid down the mountain, and rolled over several times before halting against a bush, according to reporting by the DPA news agency.

Quite honestly, if I look at the pictures from the drone crash on the internet, I get sweaty palms and tremble. -Marcel Hirscher

The airspace over Los Angeles is among the most congested in the world, but the Hollywood Burbank Airport is uniquely situated, creating extremely tight parameters around the midsize airport.

"Storing your bag behind you often means you'll be forced to wait for nearly every other passenger to deplane before you can reach it. That can turn what should be a swift exit into a slow, frustrating slog,"

TRUCKEE, Calif. -- A 26-year-old Los Angeles man has been identified as a skier who died near Lake Tahoe last week, authorities confirmed. Nicholas Kenworthy died Feb. 6 at the Northstar California Resort in Truckee, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office. The resort confirmed the deadly incident, only describing it as a "skier incident on the advanced Martis Trail." Details on the type of accident or injuries sustained by Kenworthy were not available.

Since the collision on January 29, 2025, between an American Airlines flight from Wichita and a military helicopter on a training ride, military pilots have had to broadcast their precise GPS-based location data to other aircraft and to air traffic control, something they frequently skipped before the crash. The FAA has also barred all but the most essential helicopter traffic along the Potomac near the airport.

A 65-year-old ski tourer has died following a collision with a downhill skier at a ski resort in the Austrian state of Salzburg, police confirmed on Saturday, February 7. The accident occurred around midday on Saturday on the Schwarzeckal slope in Maria Alm-a small resort, which is part of the Hochkönig Ski Area -under circumstances that are currently under investigation.

On Monday, February 23, Pierre Denambride, the 51-year-old head of slope safety at Flaine in Haute-Savoie, France, was killed while working on the mountain. One day later, on Tuesday night, a 41-year-old resort worker died in a separate quad accident in Flims, Switzerland, part of the Flims Laax ski area. The back-to-back tragedies have drawn attention to the use of quad bikes-often fitted with tracks or crawler systems-by ski patrol, slope safety teams, and mountain operations staff across Europe and North America.

Skiing under the chairlift is usually a great way hunt down some good snow with an audience watching, but it can get pretty dangerous depending on where you are. And no, I'm not talking about the risk of hitting the pole. In areas where the snow gets especially deep or the chair is especially low, there's a chance you could hit your head on the skis or snowboard of a chairlift rider above you.

Cornice collapses can be incredibly dangerous, having the potential to crush people, pull them down mountains and potentially over rocky cliffs, and cause larger avalanches. Professional skier Josh Daiek doesn't seem to be impacted by cornices as much as a regular skier or snowboarder would be, though. This incredible line starts with a heart pounding moment as he looked over the edge.

Pemberton RCMP said they were notified of a missing skier at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday in the backcountry east of Pemberton, in terrain near Mount Matier and the Anniversary Glacier by Joffre Peak. RCMP Insp. Robert Dykstra said an avalanche occurred in the area where the skier was believed to be travelling, prompting a search-and-rescue response.