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Pilot Loses Control While Taxiing on Snowy Runway

By General Aviation News Staff · January 10, 2026 · 1 Comment

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during taxi, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with terrain.

Student Crashes Into Fence After Failing to Use Carb Heat

By General Aviation News Staff · January 9, 2026 · 5 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to use carburetor heat in conditions conducive to the formation of carburetor ice, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the outcome was her failure to attain a proper touchdown point during the subsequent diversionary landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.

Training flight ends in gear-up landing

By General Aviation News Staff · January 8, 2026 · 22 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to extend the landing gear prior to landing. Also contributing was the flight instructor’s failure to monitor the airplane’s configuration while on approach to land.

Cub pilot crashes into trees

By General Aviation News Staff · January 7, 2026 · 3 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control and terrain clearance during initial climb, that resulted in an impact with trees and terrain.

Improperly installed fuel selector leads to fuel exhaustion

By General Aviation News Staff · January 6, 2026 · 10 Comments

Probable Cause: The total loss of engine power during the initial climb due to fuel exhaustion.

Pilot seriously injured when fuel exhaustion ends cross-country flight

By General Aviation News Staff · January 3, 2026 · 13 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilots’ inadequate preflight fuel planning and in-flight fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.

A Hail Mary landing (with an emphasis on the hail)

By William E. Dubois · January 2, 2026 · 6 Comments

What can we learn from an accident where a Baron is pummeled by hail?

Cold weather, impatience, and the Impossible Turn prove fatal for Cirrus pilot

By General Aviation News Staff · January 2, 2026 · 8 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control after a partial loss of engine power during initial climb. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to follow airplane flight manual procedures and limitations for the turbocharged engine, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to cold weather effects on the turbocharger control system.

Plane hits sign and taxi light after hard landing

By General Aviation News Staff · December 31, 2025 · 9 Comments

Probable Cause: The pilots’ improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing, runway excursion, and subsequent impact with a terminal sign and taxi light.

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