An analysis of air tour accidents reveals different causes for crashes involving airplanes than those involving helicopters.
An Airbus Helicopters AS350 B2 after a fatal March 11, 2018, crash into New York City’s East River. The NTSB found that a passenger’s harness/tether caught on the fuel shutoff valve and stopped fuel flow to the engine.
IATA data show many measures of safety improved in 2021, including the lack of runway excursion accidents.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Runway excursions, loss of control‒in flight and controlled flight into terrain accounted for nearly 30 percent of all airliner accidents in 2021, according to Flight Safety Foundation’s…
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The pandemic did not make general aviation any less safe than it had been before, a study of U.S. accidents says.
