Federal authorities are now investigating what caused the aircraft to go down.

A mechanical failure may have caused the crash of a sightseeing plane that killed 11 European tourists and two crew members in Peru's Nazca region,

Two people were hospitalized following a plane crashing near Highway 193 and Fort Lane in Layton overnight Friday.

The plane, a Piper J3C-65, struck the house in Fulshear, Texas, around 6:45 a.m. on Monday, the authorities said. Its pilot was in serious condition on Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said.

Perhaps no athlete had a bigger impact on their sport than Peggy Fleming did for figure skating in the 1960s.

The Nazca Lines, ​enormous drawings and ⁠geometric figures etched into desert plains in the south of the country, are one of Peru’s main tourist destinations.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on a plane crash in late March that resulted in the small aircraft careening into a neighborhood pond. The blame, it said, falls on the runway the plane took off from.

This deadly Pan American crash just north of Puerto Rico sparked today's mandatory pre-flight safety briefings.