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Missing plane located crashed on hillside in Los Angeles

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On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a report of a missing single-engine airplane. The plane had been traveling between Santa Monica Airport and Van Nuys Airport and had lost radar contact with an air traffic controller. Fire department helicopters and ground crews searched for nearly an hour before a helicopter located a signal from an aircraft emergency position radio beacon near Beverly Glen Terrace and Beverly Glen Boulevard. Ground personnel then …

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18-year-old pilot has to make emergency landing on busy highway

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As his grandmother cried in the back seat, a teen pilot flying his family to breakfast made an emergency landing on a busy California highway. In early January, Brock Peters, 18, was flying several family members from California’s Apple Valley Airport to Riverside for breakfast when his single-engine Piper PA-28 lost power, forcing him to frantically search for a landing spot. “I heard a pop in the engine as we were coming down through the …

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Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Man Threatens Passenger With Smuggled Boxcutter

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A passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight with two box cutters was taken into custody after an emergency landing, according to eyewitnesses. Larry Cumberbatch, a Navy veteran, said two other veterans and a former law enforcement member helped detain the armed passenger. The armed passenger was arrested after a former law enforcement member tackled him. Two veterans, including Cumberbatch flanked the armed passenger. Law enforcement was nearby, but not immediately visible. Cumberbatch said flight attendants …

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Private Plane Crashes Shortly After Takeoff. Explodes On Impact

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The city of Keene reports that those aboard a plane that crashed into a building on Friday have died. On Friday evening, a Beechcraft Sierra single-engine aircraft crashed north of the Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene. According to the city of Keene, no one was injured in the multifamily building, but those on the plane died. “It will be investigated by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB will provide additional updates as …

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Severe Turbulence Causes Passengers To Be Flung To The Ceiling With Severe Injuries

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Flight From Hell: Severe Turbulence Hits Plane Over Atlantic Ocean -The New York Daily Paper A flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires was affected by bad turbulence. Passengers who were not wearing seatbelts were injured. The turbulence sagged and shook the Airbus A330 at 11,500 meters (38,000 feet) about 7 hours into the flight. The flight descended into pandemonium, with passengers panicking and food and drinks carts thrown around. At least 12 people were injured, …

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Man Steals Aircraft; Threatens To Crash It Into Walmart

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A worker at an airport who stole a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatened to crash it into a Mississippi Walmart was arrested after he eventually landed in a field, police said. Cory Wayne Patterson, an employee with Tupelo Aviation for the past 10 years, stole a Beechcraft King Air C90 twin-engine aircraft and took off from Tupelo Regional Airport at 5:08 a.m. local time, police said. Patterson called 911 from the plane and said …

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