The last flight of missionary pilot James Weener was his second on Saturday, said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson. ...more

December 17, 2008

A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the scene Sunday of a plane crash that killed two people Saturday. ...more

December 15, 2008

A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the scene Sunday of a plane crash that happened at Golf Hammock Saturday. ...more

December 14, 2008

Authorities have found the wreckage of two small planes that crashed near the Everglades, killing all three people on board. ...more

December 7, 2008

A man flying to Gainesville for a kidney transplant, his wife and a pilot were killed when their twin-engine aircraft attempted an instrument landing and crashed short of the Gainesville airport early Friday, police said. ...more

November 8, 2008

A plane crash that killed a University of Tampa graduate who is one of the top officials in the war against drug trafficking appears to be an accident, but foreign investigators are in Mexico to rule out an attack by cartels, the transportation secretary said today. ...more

November 5, 2008

Authorities said Monday they have positively identified some of Steve Fossett's remains: two large bones found a half-mile from where the adventurer's plane crashed in California's Sierra Nevada. ...more

November 3, 2008

Highway fatalities nationwide decreased in 2007 compared with 2006, but motorcycle fatalities increased, and in no state were there more than in Florida, according to federal figures released Thursday. ...more

October 17, 2008

A medical helicopter carrying a 1-year-old patient crashed and burned in a wooded area of suburban Chicago overnight, killing all four aboard. The aircraft apparently clipped a radio tower, and authorities investigated Thursday whether the tower's lights had been on. ...more

October 17, 2008

A hot air balloon crashed into power lines and burst into flames Friday during Albuquerque's annual balloon fiesta, throwing both men on board to the ground and killing one of them. Witnesses said that many of the balloons were flying low right before the Wings of Wind balloon crashed in Bernalillo, just north of Albuquerque. ...more

October 10, 2008