Los Angeles:
Not less than two folks have been confirmed useless after two small planes collided midair on the Marana Regional Airport within the US state of Arizona, officers mentioned.
A Cessna 172S and Lancair 360 MK II collided whereas upwind of runway 12 on Wednesday morning, in response to preliminary data from the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB).
The planes that collided have been recognized as a Cessna 172S and a Lancair 360 MK II, each fixed-wing, single-engine plane, the NTSB mentioned in an announcement on X.
The NTSB, which is main the investigation into the incident, mentioned that based mostly on preliminary data, the plane “collided whereas upwind of runway 12”, which is one among two runways on the airport.
Each planes have been smaller fixed-wing single-engine planes, in response to the Marana Police Division.
The Marana Police Division is at the moment on scene on the airport.
The NTSB added that the Cessna “landed uneventfully” whereas the Lancair “impacted terrain close to runway 3 and a post-impact hearth ensued”.
No details about the victims was offered.
The lethal collision comes simply weeks after a helicopter collided with an American Airways passenger aircraft in Washington DC, killing all 64 passengers and three crew members.
The identical week, a small medical transport aircraft crashed into a number of buildings within the US metropolis of Philadelphia, killing all six folks on board and at the very least one different particular person on the bottom.
On Monday, a Delta Air Strains flight in Toronto skidded alongside the runway in flames earlier than flipping over and coming to a dramatic halt the wrong way up. All 80 folks on board survived.
on February 6, a small aircraft carrying 10 folks crashed in Alaska after dropping velocity and altitude and vanishing from the radar. The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, heading from the village of Unalakleet to the city of Nome, was recovered. Nobody survived, the Alaska Division of Public Security confirmed.
On February 10, two personal jets collided at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, killing one particular person and injuring 4.
The flurry of crashes within the US was then adopted by one in Canada on Monday. A Delta Air Strains regional jet carrying 80 folks crashed and flipped at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport, leaving practically two dozen injured however no deaths.
The most recent crash comes because the US aviation sector on Wednesday referred to as on Congress for emergency funding for air site visitors management expertise and staffing.
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