At 7:28 a.m. ET, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane, transporting 47 individuals, crashed after a domestic departure from the rocky northern town of Chitral, on the way to Islamabad. At approximately 3:00 p.m., the plane took off from Chitral, then contact with the control tower was malfunctioning by 4:30 […]
At 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 29, 2015, Doug Demarest, a 42-year-old pilot from Anchorage, Alaska, died during an unauthorized flight when his Cessna 172 crashed into a building in downtown Anchorage. His wife, Katherine, worked in the same building as a lawyer for Dorsey & Whitney, although she was not in the office when the crash […]
On Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) released an in-depth report concerning Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), which went missing during a routine flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Boeing 777 was struck by a Russian Buk missile. According to the DSB, […]
