air transportation disasters

The mother of a 3-year-old boy killed in a northeastern Pennsylvania helicopter crash last month filed the first lawsuit in the accident Friday, seeking unspecified damages from two aviation companies and the pilot's estate.

The pilot involved in a fatal northeastern Pennsylvania helicopter crash that killed five people, including three Marylanders, didn't follow federal regulations when planning and making the flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report.

Plumsteadville, Pa. — Spilling out from a helicopter door, rose petals and delicate purple and blue flowers rained down on hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday to remember Towson pilot David E. Jenny Jr.

A funeral service for helicopter crash victim David Jenny Jr. is planned for Sunday in Plumsteadville, Pa.

While authorities haven't disclosed who was flying the helicopter that crashed Saturday in Pennsylvania, killing five, David Jenny, 30, was the only certified pilot on board. He was recalled by family and associates as an adventurous man who loved to fly.

Three people from the Baltimore area were among five people killed over the weekend in a helicopter crash in a heavily wooded area of Pennsylvania near Scranton.

The small plane that crashed into a Maryland City mobile home park on Thursday morning lost power shortly after takeoff, investigators said Friday.

A small airplane crashed in Laurel on Thursday morning, injuring the pilot, according to Anne Arundel County Police.

Several witnesses to the plane crash that killed two Ocean City police officers on June 30 reported seeing the aircraft spiraling toward the water intact, then hitting the water in a "belly flop," according to an initial report on the crash released by federal investigators.

In its forced retirement, the Boeing DC-10 sits just off a main runway at BWI Marshall Airport, a grim reminder of the slim margin between a successful landing and a tragic one.

Maryland State Police divers on Monday have recovered two bodies from a small plane crash a half-mile off the shore of Ocean City.

Authorities called off the search late Sunday for the pilot of a small plane that crashed and sank about a half-mile off the shore of Ocean City on Sunday afternoon.

The deaths of two Navy divers at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February came amid a series of mishaps, witnesses testified during a military hearing Wednesday.

A woman who apparently had a medical condition while driving on westbound Route 198 near Eighth Street Wednesday was transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma by a state police helicopter after her car flipped over around 1 p.m.

Robo Raven is making aviation history – again. The robotic bird's maiden flights in December were a first in the history of flying machines, but lasted only seconds inside the Reckord Armory at the University of Maryland, College Park. Now the mylar and carbon fiber contraption is back, soaring higher, longer and more accurately — the first machine ever built that flies on wings that can move independently of each other, as real birds' do.

A mechanical problem forced a police helicopter pilot to make an emergency landing on the football field of a local high school in Columbia on Thursday night, a maneuver that caused "significant damage" to the aircraft but injured no one, according to Howard County Police.

U.S. Army Capt. Sara M. Knutson-Cullen, a former Eldersburg resident who died in a helicopter crash in Kandahar on March 11, will be among the honorees at the May 27 Memorial Day service at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium.

Crashes of amateur-built planes, such as the one last Saturday in Suffolk, Va., that killed a father from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster and remains under investigation, are tragic, said Carl Kesselring, the manager of Suburban Airport in Laurel.

A medevac helicopter has been requested in Whiteford after an 11-year-old boy crashed his ATV four-wheeler into a tree.

Federal investigators said Monday they have begun examining the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidson and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children.

Two Baltimore-area residents were killed in a small plane crash in Virginia on Saturday, the Virginia State Police said Sunday.

Two senior enlisted leaders with an elite Navy dive unit could face charges in the deaths of two divers at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February, and others could be charged, the Navy said Wednesday.

The leaders of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company honored Saturday, not only, those who had answered the highest number of emergency calls during the past year, or those who had given decades of service to the company, but also those who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to support the front-line volunteers, as well as those on the front lines who worked to save members of the community or fellow responders.

A 26-year-old Naval Academy graduate from Howard County who realized a long-held dream of becoming a military pilot was killed when her Navy jet crashed into a field outside Spokane, Wash., her family said Tuesday.

Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties.

Years after a multimillion-dollar contract to replace the state's fleet of aged helicopters caused controversy in Annapolis, two newly purchased aircraft arrived at the aviation command of the Maryland State Police on Tuesday.

Charles H. Latrobe III, a retired Koppers Co. executive who was a highly decorated World War II Navy aviator, died Feb. 16 from complications of pneumonia at Roland Park Place. He was 90.

A Silver Spring man crashed his homemade gyrocopter into a field in Carroll County Tuesday afternoon after hitting a power line, and he was not injured, officials said.

Dr. Clifford H. Turen, an internationally known traumatologist who had worked at Maryland Shock Trauma for two decades, was killed Jan. 13 when the private airplane he was flying crashed at Dover, Del. The Clarksville resident was 55.

No injuries in incident and helicopter able to fly back to base, police say

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No major delays reported on area transit systems

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The Orioles team charter heading to Tampa Bay on Sunday night was forced to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville because of smoke coming out of the oven in the kitchen area of the plane, an industry source said.

The Baltimore Orioles are heading back to the postseason for the first time since 1997. After beating the Boston Red Sox 6-3 on Sunday afternoon in their regular-season home finale, the Orioles sealed at least a

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