A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar at Long Beach Airport on July 10, but the pilot managed to escape with only minor injuries. According to a Long Beach Fire Department spokesman, crews were dispatched at 2:18 p.m. to the 2900 block of East Spring Street on a report of a single-engine…

WASHINGTON—Federal investigators trudged through rugged terrain Monday in search of wreckage from a business jet to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain, killing four people. A day after the plane flew over the nation’s capital, prompting the military to scramble fighter jets, the Federal Aviation Administration…

WASHINGTON—The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in a remote part of Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, three U.S. officials said Monday, recounting observations by fighter pilots who intercepted the wayward flight. The revelations came as federal investigators trudged through rugged terrain to reach the site where…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—Two people were killed when a small plane headed for Hawaii crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Northern California, federal officials said Sunday. The Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter crashed around 2:15 p.m. Saturday in the water about 40 miles off the coast of Half Moon Bay, California, the…

LOS ANGELES—The pilot and sole occupant of a small, single-engine airplane was found dead on a steep hillside above a home on the 3000 block of Beverly Glen Circle in Beverly Crest hours after the aircraft was reported missing April 29, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). No other deaths or injuries were…

Rescue teams have found the bodies of a woman and a female juvenile after a Florida plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday evening. The plane was recovered earlier on Monday. A 42-year-old man is still missing. The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee, departed from Venice Municipal Airport in Florida around 7:30 p.m….

TORRANCE, Calif.—Authorities Dec. 1 identified the two men killed in the crash of a single-engine plane as it attempted to land at Zamperini Field in Torrance. The Arion Lightning airplane with two aboard crashed just after 11 a.m. Nov. 30, according to Eva Lee Ngai of the Federal Aviation Administration. Video from the scene showed…

TORRANCE, Calif.—Two people died Nov. 30 when a single-engine plane crashed while attempting to land at Zamperini Field in Torrance. The Arion Lightning airplane with two people aboard crashed just after 11 a.m., according to Eva Lee Ngai of the Federal Aviation Administration. Video from the scene showed the small plane largely crumpled on a…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—A small plane pulling an advertising banner crashed into the ocean near Huntington Beach July 22 in the midst of a junior lifeguard competition. Video from a bystander at the beach south of Beach Boulevard captured the plane losing altitude and ultimately crashing into the ocean just off the sand shortly before 1:40…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—A small plane pulling an advertising banner crashed into the ocean near Huntington Beach July 22 in the midst of a junior lifeguard competition. Video from a bystander at the beach south of Beach Boulevard captured the plane losing altitude and ultimately crashing into the ocean just off the sand shortly before 1:40…