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.
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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A pilot can be heard on newly released cockpit recordings warning air traffic controllers that his plane was “going off the end” of the runway, the last words captured before the private jet crashed and killed four people.
Also among the eerie recordings are controllers at the Columbia, S.C., airport scrambling to divert other planes and summon emergency personnel after the jet shot off the runway in September, ripped through a fence and came to rest in flames.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Search crews braved rugged terrain on Monday to reach a plane crash on Canada’s Pacific coast, confirming there are no more survivors of the accident that killed seven people.
The Pacific Coastal Airlines charter flight crashed into a hillside on Thormanby Island, about 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Vancouver, on Sunday, but the terrain and foggy weather had prevented rescuers from reaching the site.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, an ally of President Felipe Calderon, died on Tuesday when a small plane he was traveling in crashed into evening rush hour traffic in Mexico City.
The reason for the crash was not clear but a civil aviation disaster expert told Reuters that sabotage could not be ruled out, along with other possible causes like engine failure.
Two people have escaped injury when their light plane crash-landed at an airport in the Northern Territory.
It’s believed the landing gear failed to engage and the single-engine aircraft, with two men on board, crash-landed at Gapuwiyak Airport in Arnhem Land about 4pm (CST), NT Police said.
The plane landed on the airstrip, ran off the runway and struck a boundary fence.
