Plane Crash

Six people have died after a private plane crashed into a California field and burst into flames.

The flight had left Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and crashed near French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California, around 4:15 am Saturday, according to KTLA.

The plane burst into flames when it crashed and video from the scene showed the charge fuselage.

A loud noise similar to an explosion heard in the Washington, D.C., metroplex area was the sonic boom of military aircraft scrambling to catch up to a Cessna aircraft with an unresponsive pilot before it crashed, killing all four people onboard.

The city of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management reported that the boom heard on Sunday was in fact caused by an authorized Department of Defense (DOD) flight. The noise was heard in areas as far east as the Eastern Shore of Maryland and as far west as Manassas, Virginia.

An unresponsive pilot whose plane violated restricted airspace above the Washington, D.C. area caused the U.S. to scramble fighter jets in pursuit of the small aircraft Sunday, officials said. The pursuit caused a sonic boom heard over the capital.

The civilian aircraft later crashed into mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia, officials said. Police confirmed later Sunday night there were no survivors, but did not know how many people were on board.

A small, Long Island, N.Y.-bound plane crashed Sunday into a mountainous region in Virginia after fighter jets were sent to pursue it.

The Cessna Citation was traveling to MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma from Tennessee’s Elizabethton Municipal Airport when it went down around 3:30 p.m. near Montebello, Va., the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to the Daily News.

The FAA has not released the cause of the crash, but the plane went down after violating airspace around Washington, D.C, according to reports.

Authorities are investigating a plane crash in Stagecoach, Nevada, that left at least five people dead, officials said.

Lyon County Sheriff's Office deputies said the aircraft was operated by Care Flight, a service of the Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority Health, headquartered in Reno. Stagecoach is about 40 miles east of Reno.

"On February 24, 2023, at approximately 09:15 p.m., the Lyon County Dispatch Center received multiple calls of a possible aircraft crash in Stagecoach, Nevada," Sheriff Brad Pope said.

At least 68 people have died after a passenger plane crashed in central Nepal as it attempted to land, according to local officials.

A domestic flight departing from the country's capital, Kathmandu, was heading for the airport in the Himalayan resort city of Pokhara, Reuters reported.

The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by domestic carrier Yeti Airlines, had 72 people on board. This included four members of crew and two infants, the news agency quoted airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula as saying...

At least 68 people were killed Sunday when a plane crashed into a river gorge in Pokhara, the country's Civil Aviation Authority announced.

The plane, a Yeti Airlines flight carrying passengers out of the capital of Kathmandu, was carrying 72 passengers in total. Four remained unaccounted for as of Sunday morning.

"Half of the plane is on the hillside," a local resident who saw the site told Reuters. "The other half has fallen into the gorge of the Seti river."

A plane with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal Sunday morning — killing at least 68 people, according to an army spokesman and reports.

The Yeti Airline plane was carrying 68 passengers and 4 crew members when it crashed near Pokhara International Airport, the Kathmandu Post reported, citing an airline spokesperson. Two infants and 10 foreign nations were also on board.

Two vintage World War Two-era planes have collided and crashed at an air show in the US state of Texas, killing six people.

Footage shows the aircraft striking each other at a low altitude, breaking one of the aircraft in half. A fireball can be seen as it hits the ground.

The planes - one of them a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - were taking part in a commemorative air show near Dallas.

Firefighters said there were no injuries among people on the ground.

Authorities reported a small airplane carrying undocumented migrants crashed near Presidio, Texas, on Thursday.

El Paso station KFOX-TV reported that several passengers on board the aircraft were injured and taken to hospitals in El Paso for treatment while the U.S. Border Patrol arrested others.