Report: Teacher among dead in crash of plane that left Conn.

Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. According to the FAA, authorities have identified 41-year-old Munidat Raj Persaud of Waterbury as the owner and pilot of this Piper twin turbo prop airplane that crashed into the water about three miles southeast of Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. Saturday afternoon.

Southern California airfield has 2 plane crashes in 2 days

This still photo taken from video provided by KTTV-TV/foxla.com shows the wreckage of a small plane that crashed on the border between a nursery and Brackett Field Airport in La Verne, Calif., killing the pilot, the lone occupant, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory said the plane crashed while approaching the airport.

How 53-year-old married pilot of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight…

In 2014, Malaysian and Australian officials warned that the reason behind Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappearance may never be determined. Source: AP Messages from the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have revealed a creepy man who obsessed over twin sister models' social media profiles, said the Daily Mail .

Latest: 5 killed in plane crash in California parking lot

Authorities say five people on board a small plane were killed but nobody on the ground was hurt when the Cessna crashed in a Southern California parking lot. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Salac says the twin-engine plane declared an emergency Sunday before crashing about a mile from Orange County's John Wayne Airport.

IDF shoots down Syrian fighter jet that entered Israeli airspace

Smoke trails from two Israeli Patriot interceptor missiles that Israel says shot down a Syrian fighter jet are seen in northern Israel on July 24, 2018. The Israeli Air Force shot down a Syrian fighter jet that traveled two kilometers into Israeli airspace on Tuesday afternoon, the military said.

2 dead, 1 critical in small plane crash near Lake Tahoe

A small airplane crashed near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday, killing the pilot and a passenger and critically injuring the only other person on board the single-engine aircraft. The 60-year-old pilot from suburban Sacramento, who was declared dead at the scene, reported engine trouble shortly after takeoff and was trying to make it back to the airport in Truckee, California, when the plane went down about 7:40 a.m. Two male passengers were flown by a medical helicopter to a Reno, Nevada, hospital with critical injuries.

Mississippi honors Marine plane crash victims with memorial

Marine Raider Memorial March participants do a set of pushups around the monument honoring 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman who died in a 2017 plane crash near Itta Bena, Miss., Saturday, July 14, 2018. The group of 30 former comrades and widows of members of Marine 2nd Raider Battalion, will have teams that will be on the road around the clock through July 27, relaying rucksacks of dirt and sand from the crash site and memorial site over 900 miles to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Mississippi to honor Marine plane crash that killed 16

Mississippi and U.S. Marine Corps officials are helping dedicate a monument to a plane crash that killed 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman last year. The military transport plane, flown by a New York-based Marine Reserve unit, was carrying special forces Marines from North Carolina to California for training when it crashed July 10, 2017.