Local photojournalist reflects on Air Florida crash in the wake of tragic DC midair crash
While Panzer no longer dwells on the horror of that assignment, last week’s collision between a military helicopter and a ...
Survivor of D.C. Crash Relives Escape from Death Despite 60 Broken Bones After Plane Plunged into Potomac in 1982 (Exclusive)
Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost ...
Delta flight from New York to Florida diverted to North Carolina due to 'odor in the cabin'
A Delta flight was diverted on Saturday afternoon to Raleigh while traveling from New York City to Orlando, due to an "odor ...
American Airlines Captain Has Unexpected Message for 'Fearful' Passengers
"The year saw the smallest number of fatal accidents, with no scheduled passenger jets involved in hull loss or fatal ...
Boston Herald6d
Aircraft disasters have tested almost every US president. Here’s a look back
A fourth was apparently retaken by passengers, but crashed in Pennsylvania ... the current tragedy is probably the crash of an Air Florida flight in 1982. That plane apparently went down due ...
ABC News5d
DC plane crash victims: Mom, dad and 2 daughters among the 67 killed
There were 64 passengers aboard the plane ... He also served as a flight instructor at the Epic Flight Academy in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. "He was a skilled and dedicated pilot with an ...
'Combative' man restrained by fellow passengers on Frontier Airlines flight after breaking window
A man aboard a Frontier Airlines flight was restrained by fellow passengers on Wednesday after damaging the plane window, ...
New York Post6d
American Airlines pilot comforts passengers on flight less than 24 hours after DC plane crash: ‘I have no higher calling’
A commercial airline pilot acknowledged this week’s deadly, midair plane collision during a heartfelt “welcome aboard” announcement aimed at comforting nervous passengers on a flight that ...
AOL6d
Passengers on Houston to New York United Airlines flight evacuated after plane catches fire on runway
A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York had to be evacuated Sunday morning after the airplane caught on fire during takeoff. Terrified passengers could be heard panicking in footage ...
The Hill5d
Passengers, crew killed in ‘high-impact’ air ambulance crash in Philadelphia identified
The flight reached 1,500 ... two days after the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a generation. On Wednesday night, an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided ...