All news on the topic: Plane crash

Residents in Virginia, US, were left stunned after a private jet dropped more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing in the St Mary's Wilderness, killing four people

Prominent MAGA donor John Rumpel has been left wracked with grief after his daughter and two-year-old granddaughter were two of four people to die when the private jet crashed into a rural part of Virginia

Florida businessman John Rumpel's daughter and two-year-old granddaughter were on board the private jet, alongside the toddler's nanny and pilot

The Federal Aviation Adminsitration (FAA) confirmed a private jet crashed around the same a loud sonic boom caused some residents in Washington DC

A huge sonic boom heard in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia today was caused as an F-16 jet was scrambled. The FAA confirmed another jet crashed into a mountainous region in southwest Virginia earlier today

A doctor in New York accused of serially impregnating his patients died in a plane crash on May 28. Dr Morris Wortman was pronounced dead at the scene after the pane he was travelling came down in an orchard

Searches are ongoing for the children, who have been missing since a Cessna 206 airplane crashed in the dense Colombian Amazon on May 1, but spirits are positive

Two people died in the small plane crash - the aircraft cut in half and is badly smashed up in a grassy area next to a runway

Air traffic controllers at San Francisco International Airport were heard angrily berating the Southwest pilot during the terrifying incident on May 19

All people on board an aircraft died when it fell into the River Zambezi in Namibia and an investigation heard pilot Nicole Mienie had reported that the bags were too heavy

One person has been tragically killed after a small plane crashed into a ranch in Palm City, Florida, the Martin Country Sherrif's Office said

Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the Germanwings plane into the Alps in March 2015, killing 150 people including three Brits - and his co-pilot's final words reveal he was desperately trying to open the door

A small aircraft was flying between Araracuara in Amazonas province and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province when it disappeared over two weeks ago in Colombia

Live television cameras caught the moment an aircraft veered erratically before launching to the ground near Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, US, killing one

Trevor Jacob, a former Olympic snowboarder, faces up to 20 years in prison after he purposely destroyed the wreckage of the small single-engine plane that he crashed in California

Pilot Renato Fernandes de Oliveira Junior, 72, and his passenger, Horacio Morales, 74, lost their lives as the plane began to sink after it crashed into the Jaguara Dam on the Rio Grande near São Paulo, Brazil, at around 2pm on April 30

Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) launched an inquiry into the incident which involved a Mudry Cap 10B (G-BXBU)

Mike Thexton was 27 when, after a summer hiking in the Himalayas, the plane he boarded from Karachi, Pakistan was hijacked by a Palestinian terror cell

The passengers - who were travelling inside Mexico - were aboard a twin-engine Airbus A320 when they watched in horror as the jet's engine exploded while they were flying over the sea yesterday

Ruan Crighton from Brentwood, Essex, was one of 72 people on board the Yeti Airlines Flight 691 from Nepalese capital Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara when it crashed

Cedric Bonin, 32, referred to as an Air France "company baby" due to his junior positions, was the least experienced of the three pilots, but was forced to fly the enormous Airbus 330 through a tropical storm producing crashing thunderstorms

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

A small plane was seen descending and crashing into the sea off the coast of Mexico killing a two-year-old child and the pilot who are believed to have been trapped inside while four others were rushed to hospital

The four - including associate director at aerospace giant Raytheon, William 'Jeff' Lumpkin - had flown from St. Petersburg, Florida, to meet friends at a local restaurant on Venice Pier before getting back in the plane to fly home - but it tragically plunged into the ocean shortly after take off

Two married couples from Indiana flew to Venice, Florida, to meet some friends and eat dinner at a local restaurant but shortly after the foursome - including an associate director at aerospace giant Raytheon - took off their plane crashed about half a mile offshore