Austin, TX
Accident Date:
Sat, 08/23/2014The plane was an American Champion 7-GCBC, a fixed-gear plane built in 2001 that was issued a new flight certificate in January.
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Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI
Accident Date:
Sun, 08/24/2014Bryan Bowker New Mexico, to test the aircraft before he purchased it. His first takeoff was successful, but the second time he took off, the aircraft went to the right and crashed, according to authorities on scene.
Mobile, AL-Pensacola, FL
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Sat, 08/23/2014Authorities say they are responding to a small plane that crashed in Okaloosa County in the Florida Panhandle, killing the only person on board. The Okaloosa Sheriff's office said a 911 call about a small plane going down about 3 p.m. Saturday. It was a single-engine plane.
Sherman, TX-Ada, OK
Accident Date:
Sat, 08/23/2014According to Sherman Police the plane was landing just after 10 a.m., when it experienced trouble and slide off the runway into a stand of trees. Two of the passengers were airlifted to a Plano hospital and two were taken to a Sherman hospital.
Sherman, TX-Ada, OK
Lawrence Brewer, 63, dies and his passenger, 58, injured in small-plane crash near Ardmore, Oklahoma
Accident Date:
Sat, 08/16/2014Services will be held Saturday for a Lawton dentist who was killed in a plane crash near Ardmore. Lawrence Brewer, 63, was piloting the airplane Aug. 16 when it crashed, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. Brewer was piloting a 1967 Piper Cherokee about 2:15 p.m.
Birmingham, AL
Accident Date:
Tue, 08/19/2014Investigators have identified the two men killed in a helicopter crash in northern Tuscaloosa County Tuesday morning as a 63-year-old Alabama Power employee and a pilot from Georgia, 51. Sgt.
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA
Accident Date:
Sat, 08/16/2014Sheriff's officials say two brothers were aboard a small plane that crashed in Northern California over the weekend, killing one of them and injuring the other.
Abilene-Sweetwater, TX
Accident Date:
Sat, 08/16/2014Three family members have died in a small plane crash in rural Central Texas.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the single-engine plane crashed around midnight on Saturday.
Shreveport, LA
Accident Date:
Sun, 08/17/2014A Natchitoches woman witnessed the plane crash Sunday morning that claimed the life of a local barber and sent a former city councilman to the hospital.
Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, IL
Accident Date:
Tue, 08/12/2014A rural Mansfield man was pronounced dead at the scene of a helicopter crash that occurred Tuesday morning north of Mansfield.