Date: 1/24/2009 PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An Indiana financial adviser accused of trying to fake his death in a plane crash said he’s been under psychiatric care and claims not to recall the events of the day he bailed out,…
Date: 1/22/2009 By DAVID B. CARUSOAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A savvy pilot saved at least 155 lives when he guided a disabled US Airways jet to a relatively gentle landing in the Hudson River last week. He…
Date: 1/19/2009 By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A jetliner that crash-landed in the Hudson River had lost power simultaneously in both engines after reaching an altitude of only 3,200 feet, the plane’s black box recorders revealed…
Date: 1/19/2009 By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The black box recorders recovered from the US Airways jetliner that splashed down in the Hudson River captured thumping sounds, the sudden loss of engine power and the pilot’s…
Date: 1/18/2009 By VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — They are already talking about building a statue of Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger. Lucrative book and movie deals could follow. But even though the death-defying pilot of Flight 1549…
Date: 1/12/2009 PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say the manslaughter trial of Continental Airlines and five people over the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people will begin outside Paris next year. They said Monday the trial…
January 7, 2009 By JOAN LOWY WASHINGTON (AP) — It was very windy when a Continental Airlines jet was destroyed while trying to take off in Denver last month, leading aviation safety experts to cite crosswinds as a likely factor…
Date: 1/5/2009 HOUMA, La. (AP) — Authorities planned to search a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine the cause of a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform. The helicopter,…
Date: 12/30/2008 By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn’t know it. The pilot, William…