The 38-year-old pilot of a Christmas Eve light plane crash in Northern New south Wales is recovering in hospital.
The wreckage of the single-engine Cessna was found on Christmas Day, upside down in trees north-west of Merriwa in the Great Dividing Range.
The plane’s pilot, Sydney auctioneer Scott Kennedy-Green, was winched to safety but his 32-year-old brother-in-law, Matthew Green, died at the scene.
A pilot who survived a light plane crash on Christmas eve is “devastated” that his brother-in-law died in the accident, family say.
Matthew Green, 32, a NSW builder, was killed when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed into the side of a steep ravine in rugged bushland in the NSW Upper Hunter Valley on Wednesday.
His brother-in-law Scott Kennedy-Green, 38, piloted the single-engine Cessna and remains in a stable condition in a Sydney hospital.
Two more people injured in last Saturday’s plane crash at Denver International Airport have been released from the hospital, officials said today.
Among those released was the pilot of the Continental jet that veered off the runway, slid nearly half a mile into a ravine and caught fire, airline officials told CBS 4.
ANSON COUNTY, N.C. — Federal investigators are looking into a deadly Christmas Day plane crash in Anson County.
Deputies said Steven Reamer, 57, was flying his plane from Greensboro to Gainesville, Florida.
Records show Reamer turned back near the South Carolina border and crashed at the Anson County Airport just outside Wadesboro.
Two witnesses at the airport ran out to help, but were unable to save Reamer. He died in the crash. His wife, Pamela, was flown to Carolinas Medical Center. At last check, she was in fair condition.
Federal investigators said late Monday that an unusual rattling sound can be heard on the cockpit recorder of a Continental Airlines flight shortly before it veered off a runway after an aborted takeoff Saturday, injuring more than three dozen people.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said the jet’s pilots aborted takeoff at high speed in a bid to keep from hurtling off the side of a runway at Denver International Airport last Saturday. But the plane became uncontrollable anyway and within seconds slammed into a snowy ravine.
DENVER (AP) — Investigators took photos and measurements at the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plane veered off a runway and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow-covered ravine where it came to rest after its aborted takeoff Saturday at Denver International Airport.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators made preliminary reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder on Sunday, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said.
A trip to see Santa saved a mother and baby who would otherwise have been home when two training flights collided, sending a plane crashing into the family’s new Sydney house, killing two female pilots.
A light plane crashed in Taranaki on Sunday, leaving a top dressing pilot dead.
Kevin Ross Brown, 48, died at the scene when his single engine plane crashed on a farming property in Tarata, 19km east of Ingelwood.
The Taranaki Rescue helicopter, police, ambulance and fire personal attended the crash scene which happened about noon at a rural area inland from Inglewood.
The plane crashed into the hillside not far from the airstrip.
French search divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Airbus plane that crashed in the Mediterranean killing all seven people on board.
The black box was to be dried out in Paris before data was retrieved, said Air New Zealand’s Ed Sims.
Four of the airline’s staff, one aviation official and two German pilots were on the plane. Only two bodies have been found off the Perpignan coast.
VANCOUVER, B.C. — The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother said Tuesday.
“There’s no way he could have went through that and come down without some sort of help,” Michael Wilson said at a news conference at Vancouver General Hospital.
The brother said neither sibling is a strong believer and neither attend church regularly “but something was definitely with him to help him.”
