Pilot killed in plane crash in Oklahoma Panhandle
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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.