Wildfire pilot survives tanker crash
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A small air tanker crashed while battling a wildfire Nevada, officials said Wednesday. Firefighters were able to pull the pilot out of the wreckage alive.
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WASHINGTON, DC - An error by the co-pilot caused the second-worst air disaster in US history, which killed 265 people in November 2001, National Transportation Safety Board staff said Tuesday.
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A massive propane leak and fire at the Salt Lake International Airport created some tense moments Wednesday night.  A fire set for training purposes ignited propane that was leaking from two 12,000-gallon propane tanks nearby about 9:20 p.m.
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ANCHORAGE, Dec. 10 -- High winds gusting across the Bering Sea hampered efforts Friday to stem an oil spill from a broken freighter, and there was still no sign of six crew members who were lost when a rescue helicopter crashed in the turbulent waters.
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A Mauritanian pilot made a rough landing so passengers and crew could overpower a hijacker, Spanish officials say.
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A pilot who survived a light aircraft crash in Snowdonia, which killed his friend, speaks publicly for the first time.
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A Navy student pilot ejected safely just before his T-45 Goshawk jet trainer crashed Thursday on the King Ranch in South Texas.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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More than 150 passengers survive as a plane operated by Lloyd Aereo Boliviano crash lands in a swamp.
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A 67-year-old pilot whose small plane crashed in the Pacific was spotted treading water about eight hours after his aircraft went down, and a rescue ship was on its way, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday.
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Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Sports, survived a charter jet crash that killed at least two people in Colorado on Sunday, the network told a local affiliate.
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Montrose, CO (Sports Network) - NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol survived a charter plane crash Sunday that killed at least two people.
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SAN DIEGO -- Five people killed Sunday when an air ambulance from Albuquerque crashed in the mountains near San Diego have been identified.
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MONTROSE, Colo. -- Published reports on a deadly jet crash in Colorado over the weekend indicate the co-pilot of the flight lived in Florida.
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The ship pilot who was at the helm when a freighter spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay in November suffers from a sleep disorder and was on prescription medication to ward off drowsiness, people close to the investigation told The Associated Press.
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A charter jet carrying Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Universal Sports, and five other people crashed yesterday on takeoff from an airport in Montrose, Colo.
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By Media News  The new, largely experimental supertanker, a wide-body jetliner converted to an aerial firefighting aircraft and placed on call for the state this year by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, almost crashed Monday evening fighting a blaze in Kern County.