Both engines were intentionally shut down and there was a cockpit struggle before a China Eastern Airlines jet slammed into a mountain in 2022. All 132 people on board died. In response to a public records request, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report on what the Boeing 737-800’s flight data recorder revealed. Aviation safety experts agree that the data shows both engines stopped and someone sent the plane into a nosedive and a 360-degree roll. And the back-and-forth movement of the controls suggests a struggle in the cockpit. Chinese authorities have yet to release a final report.
Five members of a pickleball club who died after the small plane carrying them crashed in Texas are being mourned by a tight-knit community of fellow players. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Saturday that Justin Appling, Hayden Dillard, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick and Seren Wilson were on board the Cessna 421C that crashed Thursday in Texas Hill Country. Appling was the pilot. They were remembered as competitive pickleball players who loved the game but also didn't take themselves too seriously. They also typically traveled together around the country to compete in tournaments.
A small plane has crashed in Texas Hill Country, killing all five people on board. A pickleball club in Amarillo says they were members who were flying to a tournament. Authorities say the crash happened around 11 p.m. Thursday night in Wimberley, about 40 miles from Austin. A pilot and four passengers were on the Cessna. The plane's flight history shows it took off from Amarillo and was headed to New Braunfels National Airport. Stacey Rohr, who lives nearby, says she heard a crash and “felt everything vibrate.”
A small plane has crashed in small city near Austin, Texas, killing all 5 aboard, county official says.
A Cessna aircraft crashes in South Sudan, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot, civil aviation authorities say.
Firefighter heard ‘stop, stop’ before LaGuardia jet crash, but didn’t know who it was for, NTSB says
The National Transportation Safety Board says a firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn “stop, stop, stop” but didn’t know who it was for. That's according to an investigative report released on Thursday. The NTSB said in a preliminary report on the March 22 crash that a crash prevention system for air traffic controllers didn’t generate an audio or visual alert. The report said the truck started moving while warning lights that act as a stop sign for crossing traffic were still lit.