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.
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.
Torrential rain caused flash floods across much of the UK over the weekend, inundating hundreds of homes and claiming the life of an elderly motorist whose car was swamped by nearly three feet of water.
At one point, there were more than 300 flood warnings in place, with south-western England accounting for about a third of incidents. The Midlands, South Coast and parts of Wales and Scotland were also affected.
Cambodia’s top policeman died in a helicopter crash in bad weather that also claimed the life of a top-ranking army general, a government spokesman told AFP Sunday.
Chief of police Hok Lundy and General Sok Sa Em were passengers in a helicopter that came down shortly after it took off Sunday from Phnom Penh airport, ministry of interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said.
A built collapsed in New Delhi on Sunday onto several vehicles below, killing two people and wounding 11 others, police said.
Workers were lifting heavy concrete slabs for the bridge, part of the city’s new metro rail system, when the crane toppled over, sending the bridge plummeting down.
The accident sent large slabs of concrete and heavy yellow steel beams crashing down on several vehicles in a crowded neighborhood in the eastern part of the city.
