Thomas Scott Long was cleared by an air traffic controller to land on Runway 27 at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport about 8:15 p.m. Oct. 23. ...more

November 4, 2009

Two men whose plane crashed in rural Pasco County on Sunday are in critical condition, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 27, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safety Board said today. ...more

October 26, 2009

Two men whose plane crashed in rural Pasco County on Sunday are in critical condition, according to Pasco sheriff's office officials. Pilot Arthur J. Michaud, 49, of 10524 Merlin Drive, New Port Richey, and Anthony Parisi, 46, of 3055 Sugar Bear Trail, Palm Harbor, crash-landed at Pilot Country on State Road 52 in Shady Hills about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. ...more

October 26, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 25, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 24, 2009

The two Northwest Airlines pilots should have had numerous warnings that their flight was nearing its destination in Minneapolis. Controllers were trying to reach the plane by radio. ...more

October 23, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officials they are investigating whether pilot fatigue was a factor in a Northwest Airlines jet overflying the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles. ...more

October 22, 2009

Two men are hospitalized after a small plane crashed in a lake in Winter Haven this morning, Winter Haven police said. The plane, a 2005 SeaRey, crashed into Lake Otis at 10:31 a.m. after it suffered what the pilot told police was a catastrophic engine failure. The pilot, John Sugar, 43, of Winter Haven, was taken by ambulance to Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Police did not know the extent of his injuries. The plane's owner, John Curtis, 64, also of Winter Haven, was flown to the same hospital with injuries that police described as serious. ...more

September 17, 2009

The search for six remaining victims of a helicopter-plane crash over the Hudson River on Saturday is expected to resume today, one day after the midair collision not far from the stretch of river where a US Airways jet landed safely seven months ago. ...more

August 9, 2009