The results of an investigation into the incident where a Tropic
Air aircraft crash - landed in the sea moments after it attempted lift - off at the Placencia airstrip in November are still to be released.
Not exact matches
Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an
aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan
Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.
Two people were killed when a civilian - owned and operated vintage warbird
aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Naval
Air Station Kingsville.
But the
Air France flight was
crashed into the sea not by terrorists but by a crew who managed to stall the
aircraft in a storm after apparently believing the autoflight computers — which were disengaged at the time — would prevent a stall.
From the comments: I am reminded of the plane
crash of a Colombian
aircraft near Kennedy International airport because the pilots failed to communicate the urgency of their situation to
air traffic controllers.
(6) A person who possesses or controls a drone and causes the drone to fire a bullet or other projectile at an
aircraft while the
aircraft is in the
air, or intentionally causes or attempts to cause the drone to
crash into an
aircraft while the
aircraft is in the
air, commits a Class A felony.
There have been a couple of high profile
air crashes recently and in at least one of those cases it seems that at present that airline sent a perfectly serviceable
aircraft manned by a competent crew into the
air and it fell out of the sky into the South Atlantic.