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Pilot crashes while distracted by sick passenger

By General Aviation News Staff · October 17, 2025 · 4 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during the landing, which resulted in a ground loop.

Student hits fuel truck

By General Aviation News Staff · October 16, 2025 · 7 Comments

Probable Cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain adequate clearance from a fuel truck while taxiing. Also contributing was the flight instructor’s inadequate monitoring of the student pilot.

Pilot loses control during aborted landing

By General Aviation News Staff · October 15, 2025 · 4 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during initial climb after an aborted landing, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.

Pilot inadvertently retracts landing gear when he meant to retract flaps

By General Aviation News Staff · October 14, 2025 · 6 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s inadvertent retraction of the landing gear during landing rollout, which resulted in a landing gear collapse.

C172 bent when pilot lands on closed waterlogged grass runway

By General Aviation News Staff · October 11, 2025 · 2 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s decision to land at a closed water-soaked grass runway, which resulted in a runway excursion.

Mooney’s test flight goes awry

By General Aviation News Staff · October 10, 2025 · 6 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll, which resulted in a runway excursion and an impact with the runway’s precision approach path indicator (PAPI) lights.

Seized piston leads to total loss of engine power in plane not flown in 10 years

By General Aviation News Staff · October 9, 2025 · 3 Comments

Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power due to a seized piston in the power take-off cylinder.

Pilot seriously injured trying to avoid deer

By General Aviation News Staff · October 8, 2025 · 7 Comments

Probable Cause: Loss of directional control to avoid a deer during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with a culvert.

Fuel starvation proves fatal for passenger

By General Aviation News Staff · October 7, 2025 · 3 Comments

Probable Cause: The total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of the pilot’s improper configuration of the automatic fuel transfer system. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to adequately monitor the header tank’s fuel quantity.

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