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FILE - Captain Richard J. Bong, of Poplar, Wis., points to a large picture of his girl friend, Marge Vattendahl, on his Lighting P-38 fighter plane pilot stationed at a New Guinea Air Base, March 31, 1944. Searchers announced Thursday, May 23, 2024, that they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Bong's plane in the South Pacific. (AP Photo, File)

Explorers find what they believe is World War II ace Richard Bong’s downed plane in South Pacific

Searchers have discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I.
 
A helicopter takes flight near the site of a plane crash where three people were killed Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Leipers Fork, Tenn. The plane departed from Baton Rouge, La., and was headed to Louisville, Ky., when it crashed. (Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP)

3 dead after small plane crashes in Tennessee

 
Wilfred Ikemoto holds a photo of his older brother, Haruyuki Ikemoto, and the Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to him, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Friday, May 10, 2024. The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones on Friday, nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash

 
In this grab taken from video people jump down emergency slides, running from a plane, in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people caught fire and skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people. (Cheick Siriman Sissoko via AP)

Boeing plane carrying 85 people catches fire and skids off the runway in Senegal, injuring 10

 
The wreckage of a small aircraft smolders in a woods in Fluvanna County, Va., Sunday, May 5, 2024. Two people were killed when the plane headed for South Carolina crashed in Virginia, according to authorities. (Virginia State Police via AP)

2 killed when a small plane headed to South Carolina crashes in Virginia, police say

 

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A car that exploded in a Moscow parking lot on Friday reportedly belonged to a former officer of the Ukrainian national security service SBU, according to Russian news agencies.
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Six skydivers and a pilot parachute to safety before small plane crashes in Missouri

Six skydivers and a pilot are safe after parachuting out of a small plane before it crashed near a county airport in western Missouri.
 

A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed in a field in England, killing the pilot

Britain’s defense ministry says a World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane has crashed near an air force base in eastern England. The pilot was killed.
 

Dive team finds bodies of 2 men dead inside plane found upside down in Alaska lake

Alaska State Troopers say dive teams found the two bodies of two men inside a plane found upside down in an Alaska lake.
 

A small plane crashes in Montana, killing the pilot and a passenger

The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash of a single-engine airplane in southeastern Montana killed the pilot and a passenger.
 

2 killed in single-engine plane crash in eastern Arkansas

Arkansas State Police say two people were killed when the single-engine plane they were flying in crashed in an Arkansas field on Sunday night.
 
FILE - Smoke rises after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. A witness who saw the vintage military plane loaded with fuel for delivery shortly after it took off from an airport in Fairbanks, last week said the far-left engine of the aircraft was not running but trailing a small, white plume of smoke, according to a preliminary crash report released Thursday, May 2. (Gary Contento via AP, File)

Witness says Alaska plane that crashed had smoke coming from engine after takeoff, NTSB finds

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A witness saw smoke coming from one of the engines of an old military plane that crashed last week shortly after taking off on a flight to deliver fuel to a remote Alaska village, according to a preliminary crash report released Thursday.
 

Small plane crashed into residential Georgia neighborhood, killing pilot

A pilot has died after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in a Georgia city. The plane crashed on Thursday a little more than a half mile from Daniel Field, a general aviation airport in Augusta.
 
This undated photo released by and taken from the official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, shows a SH-60K chopper. Two Japanese navy helicopters of the same type crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during a nighttime training flight after possibly colliding with each other, the country's defense minister said Sunday, April 21, 2024. (The official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force via AP)

Japan says a collision during a nighttime drill caused the deadly April crash of 2 navy helicopters

Japanese investigators have determined that a collision during a nighttime drill caused the deadly crash last month of two Japanese navy SH-60K Seahawk helicopters.
 

F-16 fighter jet crashes near Holloman Air Force Base; pilot safely ejects and taken to a hospital

Authorities say an F-16 fighter jet has crashed west of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and the pilot safely ejected.
 

2 die when small plane crashes in wooded area of northern Indiana

Authorities say two people have died in the crash of a small plane in some woods in northern Indiana.
 
Smoke rises after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The plane took off in the morning from Fairbanks International Airport. It crashed about 7 miles (11 kms.) from there and "slid into a steep hill on the bank of the river where it caught fire," according to Alaska State Troopers. (Gary Contento via AP)

Pilot reported fire on fuel-laden plane and tried to return to airport before deadly Alaska crash

A federal aviation official says one of the two pilots of an airplane that was laden with fuel reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, Alaska.
 

Oil sprays from an ANA flight carrying 213 people as it lands in northern Japan

Airline officials say oil sprayed from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed in northern Japan, but none of the 213 people on board was injured.
 
A fire burns after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Alaska State Troopers via AP)

Douglas C-54 plane with 2 people on board crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska

A Douglas C-54 Skymaster has crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Authorities say two people were on board, and no survivors have been found.
 
This image released by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shows a retrieved component which is believed to be a part of a crashed helicopter, Sunday, April 21, 2024. Initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the waters in the Pacific near the crash site of the two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign that mechanical problems in the aircraft caused the accident, Japan’s defense minister said Monday, as he indicated human error. (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force via AP)

Flight data recorders from crashed Japanese navy helicopters show no sign of mechanical failure

Japan’s defense ministry says an initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the crash of two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign of mechanical problems, indicating likely human error.
 
Ukrainian servicemen pass the scene of a building damaged by Russian attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Ukraine claims it shot down a Russian strategic bomber as Moscow’s missiles kill 8 Ukrainians

Ukraine’s air force is claiming it shot down a Russian strategic bomber. But Moscow officials say the plane crashed Friday in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission.
 

Pilot who died last week in Indiana plane crash was Purdue student, authorities say

Authorities say a pilot who died last week when a small plane crashed in northwest Indiana has been identified as a Purdue University student from Minnesota.
 

Pilot of experimental plane fell out and hit the tail in 2022 crash that killed 2, investigators say

Federal investigators say the pilot of an experimental aircraft fell out of the plane and hit the tail before it went down in northeastern Pennsylvania in 2022.
 

1 dead in small plane crash in northwest Indiana, police say

Police say one person has died after a small plane crashed in northwest Indiana. The Lafayette Journal & Courier reports Tippecanoe County sheriff’s deputies discovered the plane’s wreckage in a field off U.S. 231 northwest of Lafayette.
 
FILE - British Airways planes sit parked at Heathrow Airport in London, on Sept. 9, 2019. A Virgin Atlantic jet collided with another plane while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday April 6, 2024, aviation authorities said. There were no reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

A Virgin Atlantic plane clipped a BA jet at Heathrow but no injuries were reported

A Virgin Atlantic jet collided with another plane while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries.
 
FILE - The logo for Boeing appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Oct. 24, 2018. Boeing CEO David Calhoun received compensation valued at $33 million in 2023, nearly all of it in stock awards, but his stock payout for this year will be cut by nearly one-fourth because of the drop in Boeing’s share price since the January 2024 blowout of a panel on one of its planes in midflight. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Boeing’s CEO got compensation worth nearly $33 million last year but lost a $3 million bonus

Boeing CEO David Calhoun is getting compensation valued at $33 million for last year, nearly all of it in stock awards.
 

3 people killed in crash of small plane in southeastern Oklahoma, authorities say

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says three people are dead after the single-engine aircraft they were aboard crashed in southeastern Oklahoma.
 

Plane crashes onto trail near Indiana airport, injuring pilot and 2 pedestrians

Authorities say a pilot and two pedestrians have been hurt after a small plane missed a Muncie, Indiana, airport runway and crashed onto a trail.
 

2 rescued after small plane crashes near Rhode Island airport

Authorities say two people have been rescued from the water after their small plane crashed into a bay near a Rhode Island airport.
 

2 people killed in weekend crash of small plane in Northern California mountain town near Lake Tahoe

Authorities say two people died when a single-engine airplane crashed amid moderate snow in a California mountain town just north of Lake Tahoe.
 
FILE - Captain Richard J. Bong, of Poplar, Wisc., points to a large picture of his girl friend, Marge Battendahl on his Lighting P-38 fighter plane pilot stationed at a New Guinea Air Base, on March 31, 1944. A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced the search on Friday, March 22, 2024, Minnesota Public Radio reported. (AP Photo, File)

Museum, historical group launch search for wreckage of ace pilot Richard Bong’s crashed plane

A Wisconsin museum and an historical group are launching a search for the wreckage of ace pilot Richard Bong’s plane. Minnesota Public Radio reports that the Richard I.
 
FILE - A commercial airliner approaches Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Feb. 21, 2024, in Norridge, Ill. Cracked windshields on jetliners and engine problems that cause flight delays don't normally attract much attention, but routine and rare problems with passenger planes are attracting an unusual amount of news coverage. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

With all the recent headlines about panels and tires falling off planes, is flying safe?

It’s been 15 years since the last fatal crash of a U.S. airliner, but you wouldn’t know that from a torrent of flight problems that made news in the last three months.
 

Virginia police identify 5 killed in small private jet crash near rural airport

Virginia State Police have identified the five people killed when a small private jet crashed as it approached a rural airport earlier this month.
 
FILE - Greek Fighter Jets F-16, fly over Tanagra air force base about 74 kilometres (46 miles) north of Athens, Greece on Sept. 12, 2022. Greek authorities say on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

A Greek F-16 crashes during a training mission, but the pilot is rescued

Greek authorities say an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued.
 

Experimental aircraft crashes in Arizona, killing 1 and seriously injuring another

Authorities are investigating the crash of an experimental, homemade aircraft that left one person dead and another seriously injured about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix.
 

Married Idaho couple identified as victims of deadly Oregon small plane crash

Oregon authorities have identified a married couple from Idaho as the victims of a small plane crash that killed everyone on board.
 
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