LAKELAND, Fla. - A small plane crashed and caught fire, killing the two occupants, while trying to take off at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport on Friday.
The two-seat Cessna 337 Skymaster was totally engulfed in flames when rescue crews arrived, Lakeland Fire Department spokeswoman Cheryl Edwards said.....
PILOT KILLED WHEN CARGO PLANE CRASHES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE (NH - 1/14/05)
The pilot of a cargo plane that took off from Bangor was killed when his aircraft crashed in heavy fog at the end of a runway at Dillant Hopkins Airport in Swanzey, New Hampshire.....
Pilot killed in Patterson plane crash (Baton Rouge, LA - 1/15/05)
The pilot of a small plane was killed in a crash in the town of Patterson this morning....
Wreckage of missing plane found in Siberia, 9 confirmed dead (Update to Missing Russian Plane)
MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The wreckage of a small plane that had gone missing in Siberia was found and all nine people aboard were confirmed dead, the Emergency Situations Ministry said on Friday....
Good lord - good thing I can't afford to fly anymore. :-)
re: Multiple additional small aircraft crashes. Any Freepers/Lurkers here from the NTSB? Surely some person or department there is charged with charting something like the number of crashes per million flying hours. I would love to see if these occurences are statistically on the increase, or if that is just our perception.