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NTSB RELEASES 2009 AVIATION ACCIDENT STATISTICS; ON-DEMAND ACCIDENTS AT LOWEST LEVEL IN LAST 20 YEARS Washington, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board today released preliminary aviation accident statistics...

April 8, 2010 (flight injury.com – Aviation Accidents, Injury News, Wrongful Death) A Philadelphia jury awarded $89 million to one survivor and the estates of three passengers killed in a 1999 Ohio plane crash. The jury...

  A plane crash that killed four people and injured Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker was caused by under-inflated tyres, investigators have said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also said a design flaw in the...

Seventeen people were hurt in a crash on the Thruway Wednesday morning around 4:30 a.m. It happened in the eastbound lanes near the Manchester exit, Exit 43. State Police say the box of a dump truck driven by John Hoey, 49 of...

A medical helicopter crash near Brownsville, TN has left three people dead. The chopper went down during a severe storm this morning. A witness told the Haywood County Sheriff’s Department that he saw what he thought...

CHICAGO (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report on the fatal 2008 crash of a medical transport helicopter in Aurora says the pilot’s preflight planning was inadequate and he was flying too...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A freak aviation accident has claimed the life of a pharmaceutical salesman out for a jog while on a business trip. Officials say Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., was struck by a...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Nine crew members and passengers aboard a Jamaica-bound US Airways flight were taken to a hospital with coughs and sore throats after smelling strong odors today, two months after 15 people aboard the...

By JOAN LOWY (AP) – REPRINTED FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, WASHINGTON — Fewer airliners crashed around the world last year, but more people died in the accidents, an industry group said Thursday. The number of deaths rose...