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Plane Last Accounted For Flying Near North Dome in Park on Monday, December 17, 2012. Yosemite National Park continues the search for a single engine plane that may have gone missing over the park on Monday, December 17, 2012. The plane was last detected via radar in the afternoon on …
Read More »Search for Missing Plane Suspended in Yosemite National Park
Single Engine Plane Missing Since Monday, December 17, 2012. The search for the missing plane over Yosemite National Park and adjacent areas has been suspended. The single engine plane was last detected via radar in the afternoon on Monday, December 17, over the North Dome area in the park. Search …
Read More »Missing Plane Located Near Vogelsang Peak in Yosemite National Park
The single engine plane that was reported missing over Yosemite National Park on Monday, December 17, 2012, has been located. The plane, which was largely intact, was spotted by a park visitor near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp on Saturday, July 6, 2013. The Vogelsang area is in the rugged high …
Read More »70 Years After Fatal Plane Crash, A New Novel Tells The Victims’ Stories
Five years ago, Valley Public Radio brought you the story of one man’s search for names that it seemed had been lost to history. Fresno author Tim Z. Hernandez was searching for the families of the 28 passengers who died in a plane crash in western Fresno County in 1948. …
Read More »Wolves on a plane: How a sanctuary pulled off rewilding 4 critically endangered pups
It was just before 5 a.m. and four critically endangered wolves were tucked under a seat on a commercial flight from St. Louis to Arizona. The Mexican wolf puppies, one … Click to Continue »
Read More »Camera captures small plane crashing into tree in parking lot
A small plane crashed in a parking lot in Plainville, Connecticut at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Monday, September 11, 2017. The Hartford Courant reported the single-engine Cessna was coming into land at Robertson Field Airport when it veered and crashed into a tree in a nearby parking lot. The 80-year-old …
Read More »Motorist films plane crash from the freeway in Los Angeles
A fire official says two people have been injured after a small plane crashed on a freeway near a Southern California airport. Orange County Fire Capt. Larry Kurtz says the plane crashed on Interstate 405 near John Wayne Airport in Costa Mesa around 9:30 … Click to Continue »
Read More »1 Dead After Small Plane Crashes Near Livermore
One person has died after a small plane crashed in Livermore late Monday, according to NBC affiliate KNTV in the Bay Area. KNTV’s report stated that the Federal Aviation Administration said a Piper PA22 plane crashed shortly after departing from the Livermore airport. Preliminary reports from the FAA included in KNTV’s …
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