plane crashes

The grant termination comes as North Perry Airport's safety record is under increased scrutiny.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree. It was yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines, says the response Sunday night was “heroic.” But he is frustrated. Castillo says there have been more than 30 crashes in the past five years on or around North Perry Airport in Broward County.

A woman and a child are dead and another person is missing after a plane crashed off Florida's Gulf Coast.

A pilot and passenger were killed on Monday when a small plane crashed after takeoff into a house in Miramar. The residents who were home at the time were not injured.

Federal aviation officials say they are investigating what happened at Miami International airport yesterday — this is after a passenger jet from a new low-cost airline from the Dominican Republic crash-landed, bursting into flames.

One of the three people on a small plane was killed when it crashed onto a bridge near Miami this weekend.

The equipment was extremely damaged, however, so it's unclear how much information it will provide. There were 132 people aboard the flight, which crashed on Monday.

The flight, with 132 passengers and crew aboard, was en route from Kunming to Guangzhou when it crashed in a forested area of southern China on Monday.

Federal aviation regulators have called for investigations into Boeing 777 jets equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines.

Authorities said they know the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the Boeing 737-500 that went down in the Java Sea with 62 people on board.

A U.S. official tells NPR that two people died when the aircraft crashed in Ghazni province. The official blamed mechanical problems — but the Taliban claim to have shot it down.

The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff on Wednesday. Iranian officials said the likely cause was mechanical problems.