5 people died in a helicopter accident in New York on Sunday. Only the pilot, 33 year old Richard Vance, survived. The passengers were two 26 year old friends from Dallas, Trevor Cadigan and Brian McDaniel, an Argentinean tourist, 29 year old Carla Vallejos Blanco and two employees of the helicopter…
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New bill to reduce hit and run accidents in New York City
On average there is one fatal hit and run accident every week in New York City and too often the police will never be able to identify the driver. Out of 44,865 hit-and-runs reported to the NYPD in the 2016 fiscal year, there were only 510 arrests. To fight this…
3 people dead in NY plane accident
Three people died in a plane accident in Long Island, NY. The passengers, two men and a woman had taken off from Myrtle Beach, SC and planned to land in Plainville Connecticut later on during the day. The airplane made a distress call to air traffic control and reported an…
2 students died in a New York plane accident
Two 19 year old Colgate University students were killed in a plane crash yesterday afternoon in Morrisville, NY. Ryan Adams and Cathryn (Carey) Depuy , both Ridgefield natives. The pair took off from Morrisville airport and flew 10 miles before crashing in a wooded area. They were killed instantly. Read more in…
Two pilots died in less than a week in two separate New York plane accidents
A small plane crashed in a backyard in Long Island this morning, killing the pilot who was alone in the plane. Apparently the pilot managed to steer his plane between two houses before crashing in the backyard of one of them on Camille Lane in Suffolk County’s East Patchogue. A…
New York Helicopter Accident: skilled pilot made safe landing in the Hudson
A 22 year old helicopter pilot made a successful emergency landing on the Hudson River, saving his life and the life of 4 passengers after the engine of the helicopter went completely off. The FAA is investigating the accident according to the New York Daily News.
Deadly Plane Crash: the Pilot was flying high on Cannabis
Investigation of a plane accident that killed a pilot, a passenger and left two other passengers seriously injured showed a very high level of THC in a Canadian pilot who was flying a Cessna 208B Caravan operated by Air Tindi Ltd. near Lutsel K’e, Northwest Territories. The toxicology report indicates…