Plane crash

All four crewmembers safe after two US fighter jets collide mid-air at Idaho Air Show

According to local media, Mountain Home Air Force Base has been locked down following the Gunfighters Air Show crash.

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 1, 2026 at Sea; illustrative.
A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (foreground); illustrative.

Plane crash near Juba, South Sudan, kills all 14 aboard, civil aviation authority confirms

An F-15K landing; illustrative.

Korean fighter jet pilot fined five years after damaging plane while filming during flight

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026.

LaGuardia controller under investigation in Air Canada Express runway collision


UK believes Prigozhin plane was downed by Russian security agency

The Federal Security Service is Russia's primary security agency. It is Russia's successor to the KGB of the Soviet Union.

 A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial near former PMC Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia August 24, 2023.

Wagner mercenary chief's plane was fine on radar until last 30 seconds

Russian investigators opened a criminal probe. Some unnamed sources told Russian media they believed the plane had been shot down.

Firefighters work amid aircraft wreckage at an accident scene following the crash of a private jet in the Tver region, Russia, August 23, 2023.

Wagner Group chief among passengers on crashed plane near Moscow

All ten people on board the aircraft died in the crash, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.

 A view shows plane wreckage on fire following an alleged air accident at a location given as Tver region, Russia, in this image published August 23, 2023.

Two firefighting helicopters collide in California, killing three

The first helicopter landed safely after the collision but the second one crashed, killing all three people who were on board.

 A helicopter is seen during a fire in Perris, California, US, July 15, 2023

Russian fighter jet crashes into Sea of Azov near Russian coast

A Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber crashed into the Sea of Azov on Monday.

 Sukhoi Su-25

Colombian children who survived five weeks in jungle released from hospital

"They have recovered size and weight, really they are very well," Astrid Caceres, the director of the country's child welfare institute, told journalists.

Children from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in thick jungle, play in a recovery center after being discharged from the Military Hospital in Bogota, Colombia, in this handout photo released and distributed on July 14, 2023

Six dead in corporate jet crash outside Los Angeles

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the FAA said.

 Cessna C550

This new AI autopilot algorithm can help pilots avoid crashes - study

Researchers at MIT have developed new algorithms that could help human pilots deal with extreme near-crash events.

 An Israeli El Al plane flying above the clouds.

Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

Rescuers, supported by search dogs, had previously found discarded fruit the children ate to survive, as well as improvised shelters made with jungle vegetation.

 Colombian military soldiers attend to child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in the jungles of Caqueta, in limits between Caqueta and Guaviare, June 9, 2023.

The unsolved mystery of the 1999 'ghost flight' accident

To this day, nobody knows why the small jet lost contact minutes after takeoff and crashed down to earth, four and a half hours later.

 Learjet 35 flying in the sky