Posted on behalf of Gordon & Doner on Feb 20, 2017 in Aviation Accidents
For the third consecutive year, helicopter accidents and related fatalities have declined in the United States. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the rate of helicopter accidents in 2016 fell to 3.19 incidents per 100,000 hours in…
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Posted on behalf of Gordon & Doner on Oct 14, 2015 in Aviation Accidents
A small plane crashed into a mobile home in the Mar Mak Trailer Park in Lake Worth early Tuesday evening, destroying one mobile home and damaging another in a ball of flames. The pilot, who is believed to have been the only person onboard the plane, and…
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Posted on behalf of Gordon & Doner on Jan 02, 2015 in Aviation Accidents
As the AirAsia Flight 8501 has now been counted as an aviation accident, the total number of aviation accidents reported last year comes to 111. Surprisingly, the number of airline crashes is the lowest it has been in approximately 80 years. In 2005,…
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Posted on behalf of Gordon & Doner on Jul 28, 2014 in Aviation Accidents
On Sunday afternoon in Sarasota, Florida, a father was killed and his 9-year-old daughter critically injured while walking along the beach when a small plane crash landed just feet from the surf.
Ommy Irizarry, 36-years-old from Georgia, was pronounced…
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Posted on behalf of Gordon & Doner on Mar 11, 2014 in Aviation Accidents
When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur after midnight on Saturday, no one expected it would simply disappear over Vietnam, but it did. Carrying 239 passengers, the Boeing 777 aircraft lost contact with air traffic control and has…
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