Poor maintenance is often a factor when skydiving planes crash, like one did in Missouri on Sunday, and the National Transportation Safety Board has said in past investigations that weak oversight of the industry can allow problems to go unnoticed.

Pilots' group FIP urged the AAIB to conduct simulator tests for the AI171 plane crash. They want to verify the connection between RAT deployment and fuel control switch movement. This follows the AAIB's interim report on the 2025 Air India Dreamliner crash.

The pilot of the military plane was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

One person is dead following a small plane crash at the Twin Oaks Airpark near Farmington, the Washington County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue posted on X, formerly

Philip Everton McPherson crashed two planes, almost crashed a third and was banned from flying with passengers. But he gave flight lessons anyway. His plane crashed in September 2022 in a residential backyard in Salisbury Township,