Compiled by Holly Henrichsen Assistant Web Content Manager Five people were killed in a plane crash early this morning while returning from the NCAA basketball championship in Indianapolis. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 414 took off from Indianapolis and crashed just short of the Bloomington airport after midnight. Authorities have yet to say what caused the crash. Illinois State assistant basketball coach Torrey Ward was one of the […]
Compiled by Holly Henrichsen Assistant Web Content Manager Flight data that has been recovered from the Germanwings Flight 9525 now show that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz purposely used the controls to speed up the planes descent. According to the French air investigation agency BEA, the recovered black box shows that the co-pilot present in the cockpit used autopilot to put the airplane into a descent towards an altitude of 100 feet. […]
Compiled by Holly Henrichsen Assistant Web Content Manager The talk of a possible suicide crash of the Germanwings flight that killed all 150 people aboard has now arisen. According to the Washington Post, a French prosecutor said earlier today that the co-pilot wanted to destroy the plane. The statement comes after the voice recorder on the plane was found and indicated that the pilot was locked out of the cockpit […]
By Erin Pollack Web Editor A TransAsia passenger plane clipped a bridge and crashed into a river in Taiwan this morning killing 23 people. According to CNN, 58 people were on the flight, 23 were confirmed dead, 15 injured and 20 people are still missing. Two people were driving on the bridge when the plane hit, and they were injured as well, but are now in stable condition. Taiwan’s Civil […]
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