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Pieces of the tail of the Learjet that crashed in Florida have been found miles away from the crash site, which suggests that part of the aircraft broke off before it hit the ground, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Federal investigators found three pieces of the jet's left elevator between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the impact site in Palm Beach County, Florida, NTSB member Thomas Champman said Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The plane's elevator controls the aircraft's pitch up or down, and without it, an aircraft cannot recover from a nose dive. Chapman said that...

Tokyo stocks ended lower in volatile trading Wednesday, with the Nikkei briefly plunging toward 60,000, as media projections showed Democrats had regained control of both houses of the U.S. Congress. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended down 893.23 points, or 1.42 percent, from Monday at 62,188.63. The broader Topix index finished 34.90 points, or 0.89 percent, lower at 3,895.38. Japanese markets were closed on Tuesday for a public holiday. On the top-tier Prime Market, the main decliners were nonferrous metal, oil and coal product and mining issues. The U.S. dollar weakened, briefly falling to the lower 157 yen range in...

FYI go find the videos, crazy stuff, the conspiracy theorys are on it.... WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway. All passengers on board were killed, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sai

Three people were killed when two helicopters collided in midair Thursday afternoon in a community near Portland, Oregon, authorities said. The collision involving an Airbus H125 and a Robinson R22 occurred near McMinnville Municipal Airport at about 2:15 p.m. local time, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration provided to CBS News. Only the pilot was aboard the Robinson R22, while the Airbus H125 was carrying two people, the FAA said. The Yamhill County Sheriff's Office later said in a statement that all three people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash. The two people aboard the...

A fiery wreck near Los Angeles International Airport killed one person early Saturday, sending towering flames into the sky and scrambling emergency crews from multiple agencies to the scene. The single-vehicle crash was reported around 5 a.m. near Imperial Highway and S. Hughes Way, an LAPD spokesperson told The California Post. Video from the scene showed enormous flames engulfing the vehicle as Los Angeles Fire Department crews raced to put out the blaze. The car appeared to have suffered catastrophic damage to its front end, leaving it a charred, smoldering wreck once firefighters extinguished the flames. Reports from the scene...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A car crashed into the back of a MARTA bus after a red light on Memorial Drive. The crash happened near Memorial Drive and George Luther Drive. Passengers on the bus told Channel 2’s Eryn Rogers that they felt a jolt on an otherwise normal bus ride. There were elderly people and children on board the MARTA bus at the time of the crash. They were checked out by responding EMS. No one was seriously injured.

The first Formula 3 feature race of the weekend begin with a multi-car pileup at the Madring. Luckily, every driver involved in the incident is OK. This weekend, the final weekend of the Formula 3 championship ends with two feature races instead of just one. Immediately on the first lap, the red flag was waved after multiple incidents happened simultaneously at the narrow track. First, two Van Amersfoort Racing cars, driven by Enzo Deligny and Bruno del Pino, came together at Turn 7. Meanwhile, in the background, Maciej Gladysz's ART Grand Prix car also went airborne, as he could not...

After an Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport, killing five people, one of the pilots reportedly told his wife over the phone that his "career was over," according to a new report. Abraham Altamar told CBS News that he had witnessed the fiery wreck on Sunday while he was working in a nearby building. He did not identify which of the two pilots he spoke with. Altamar was on FaceTime with his wife when he said the pilot approached him. "He was, like, shaking and, and a little injured in his forehead and his hand," Altamar said. "I...

Federal regulators said the two crew members aboard the Amazon cargo jet that crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday survived the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) provided the update during a Sunday press conference after officials said the cargo plane overran the runway and caught fire while landing. The crash killed five people and injured five others, authorities said Sunday. The jet collided with two vehicles carrying at least eight occupants, according to NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. Seven of the victims were in a van that was struck and "torn apart" on airport grounds, Homendy said. The...

A Hellenic Air Force F-4 Phantom plunged into the ground during an Athens Flying Week airshow Saturday — erupting into a massive fireball as horrified spectators watched, chilling video shows. Both pilots aboard the American-made, two-seat fighter were killed in the crash, according to two officials who spoke to Reuters. The shocking crash unfolded about two minutes into the jet’s display at Tanagra Air Base near Athens at around 3 p.m. local time, according to The Aviationist. Footage shows the F-4 roaring along at low altitude before banking into a turn and rapidly losing height. Seconds later, the fighter disappears...

Two air traffic controllers left work early the night an Air Canada regional jet smashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport, killing two people in March, according to reports. The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire the two controllers who left work about an hour before their shifts ended on March 22 — leaving two remaining controllers to handle more than twice the usual volume of traffic on the night of the deadly collision, the Wall Street Journal first reported. That evening, the Air Canada regional jet barreled into the Port Authority fire truck while it was crossing...

Two people were killed Wednesday when a Fort Hood AH-64 Apache attack helicopter violently crashed into a field in Central Texas, sparking a wildfire that forced evacuations and sent emergency crews racing to the scene, authorities said. Bell County Sheriff's Office spokesman Cliff Coleman said authorities received the call about the crash at approximately 1:34 p.m. The helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, roughly 30 minutes from Fort Hood. KWTX reported the crash occurred off Dove Hollow Lane. Coleman described the crash as violent and confirmed two people were killed. No one else was injured. Coleman identified...

A fighter jet crashed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Friday morning, sparking a small fire on the military base. The F-35B assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft Group 11 went down around 10 a.m. in what Marine Corps spokesperson Capt. Steven Keenan called a "Class A mishap." The pilot, the only person aboard, ejected from the plane and was recovered, Keenan said. It was not clear if the individual was injured. Footage from SkyRanger 7 showed a plane in at least two pieces amid a football-field-sized patch of scorched earth, which fire crews doused in streams of water. It was...

Tesla has finally clarified the situation regarding the viral crash in Texas where a Model 3 slammed into a home. CEO Elon Musk replied to reports on Monday that stated the crash was due to the company’s Full Self-Driving or Autopilot suite, which seemed unlikely to those who are familiar with it. Video showed the car slamming into a house at an excessive rate of speed, making it highly unlikely the crash was due to the suite’s operation, as it does not travel at those speeds in residential areas. Musk said: “This makes no sense. FSD drives slowly through neighborhood...

The wreckage of a plane crash burns in a field in Butler, Mo, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Mid America News Review via AP Photo ) KANSAS CITY — Eleven skydivers and the pilot were killed Sunday morning in a plane crash at Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, Missouri. The Bates County Coroner’s Office released the victims’ names Tuesday, two days after the accident, noting some were experienced skydivers. Individuals: Kurt John Roy: 69 years old, Windber, PA Michael R. Shanahan: 54 years old, Kansas City, MO David Hershberger: 54 years old, Liberty, MO Sai Karthik Varma Datla: 24 years old,...

Eight crew members are dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning, the base said. The B-52 Stratofortress was on a routine test mission that took off at 11:20 a.m. local time at the remote air base, officials said. It is now considered a recovery operation. “It was tragic and unsurvivable,” Colonel James Hayes said at a news conference. Emergency crews responded immediately to the crash involving the bomber, which left a towering black plume in its wake, the base said. Teams are working to notify families...

A B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, located northeast of Lancaster, officials confirmed Monday. The incident happened around 11:20 a.m., according to a post on X from the base. Emergency crews responded to the scene, but additional details were not available.

BREAKING: A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber has crashed in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast. VIDEO AT LINK......... There is currently no information regarding the fate of the crew. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2066516457383448972

An F/A-18D Legacy Hornet belonging to VMFA-323 crashed while flying the VR-1355 low-level route in Washington State, with the pilot’s ejection caught on camera. On Jun. 13, 2026, at approximately 12.00 PDT an F/A-18D Hornet aircraft assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, crashed approximately 55 miles southeast of Seattle, while conducting a routine training mission The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by the local sheriff’s department. “The cause of the mishap is currently under investigation,” says an official 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing press release. Interestingly, clips of the single pilot ejecting from the two-seat Legacy...

A pilot and 11 skydivers died after a private plane crashed in Butler, Missouri on Sunday morning. The aircraft crashed just after takeoff at 11.30am, a spokesperson with Bates County Emergency Management told Fox4. The plane took off from Butler Memorial Airport when it turned back for an unknown reason before crashing near Business 49 Highway. A source told the outlet that 11 victims were skydivers, and the other victim was the pilot. All passengers on the aircraft died. First responders and Missouri State Highway patrol are on the scene of the crash, and are scanning the area to see...