Federal investigators have determined that mechanical troubles combined with pilot error to cause the fiery crash two years ago of a twin-propeller aircraft that slammed into a Davis Islands home, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - A pilot's poor decisions and a mechanical malfunction led a plane to crash while making an emergency landing at Peter O. Knight airport two years ago, according to the National Transportation Safety Board's final report on the crash, which was released this week. On June 12, 2006, a Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication flight crashed through a fence, trees and a vehicle and, finally, into a house. ...more

July 1, 2008

The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the United States. ...more

June 5, 2008

A preliminary report offers cold, hard facts but doesn't answer the question of why a plane carrying a Brandon pastor and his son crashed into the side of a North Carolina mountain. ...more

May 23, 2008

TAMPA - No cause is provided, but the National Transportation Safety Board today released a report on the North Carolina plane crash that killed the Rev. Forrest Pollock of Brandon and his 13-year-old son, Preston. ...more

May 22, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 18, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 17, 2008

Fumes from an electrical fire incapacitated two pilots, causing their NASCAR plane to plunge into a neighborhood near Orlando, killing them and three people on the ground, according to a NASCAR report released Friday. But federal investigators do not necessarily agree with that claim. ...more

May 11, 2008

A nationwide helicopter flight school with operations in four Florida cities, including Lakeland, said Monday that it ceased operating and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. ...more

February 5, 2008

Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis were too thin by half and fractured, "the critical factor" in the collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. ...more

January 16, 2008