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Families of crash passengers want wider review of Boeing Max
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will face questions about whether the agency is too cozy with Boeing when he testifies this week before a congressional panel. The chairman of the House Transportation Committee says he plans to ask FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson about Boeing's influence over the...
Report: Plane stalled before crash into California home
UPLAND, Calif. (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into an Southern California home and burned last month was getting ready to land at a nearby airport when its wing dipped and the plane stalled, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The pilot was killed in the...
NTSB releases report on plane crash near Roy that injured 2
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The National Transportation and Safety Board has released a preliminary report outlining the facts surrounding a plane crash last month near Roy that seriously injured the two people aboard. The crash occurred Nov. 17 and injured a commercial pilot and a student pilot. According to...
Updated list in Alaska shows 1,239 missing people since 1960
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's list of missing people has been updated and now contains 1,239 names, public safety officials said Friday. The Missing Person Clearinghouse produced by the Alaska Department of Public Safety lists people missing from 1960 through Dec. 1. The online registry is the...
Boeing tries to reassure airline industry leaders about Max
DALLAS (AP) — Boeing is reassuring airline industry leaders about the safety of the grounded 737 Max as it continues working to get the plane back in service. The aircraft maker invited about 30 union officials, safety experts and others to the Seattle area for two days of meetings with Boeing executives...
Authorities ID 3rd person killed in San Antonio plane crash
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 71-year-old woman from a Houston suburb was the third person killed when a single-engine plane crashed into a commercial part of San Antonio, authorities said Wednesday. Maureen Garrow, of Spring, was flying with 38-year-old pilot Robert Tyson Womble and 22-year-old college student...
Student, businessman among 3 dead in San Antonio plane crash
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 22-year-old college senior and 38-year-old businessman were among three people killed when a single-engine plane crashed into a commercial part of San Antonio. The San Antonio Express-News reports that finance major Eric Naranjo and the director of an Austin company that owned the...
Idaho community mourns 9 relatives killed in plane crash
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When Jim Hansen boarded his company’s single-engine aircraft for a pheasant-hunting trip to South Dakota, he brought along the same people he trusted with his business: his family. Three generations of Hansen’s clan ran a petroleum distribution business in Idaho...
2 companies declined Seward flight before fatal crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An air ambulance that crashed on the Kenai Peninsula was on a flight to a location that other companies had declined. The Anchorage Daily News reports one air ambulance service Friday night declined to make a trip from Anchorage to Seward and another company said it would not make...
Officials: 3 dead after small plane crash in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Officials say three people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed while attempting to land at San Antonio International Airport. San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood says the plane went down around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in a commercial district about a mile west of the airport. Hood...
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