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• Meg Godlewski
A Cessna 150 collided with a Pennsylvania State Police Bell 407 helicopter hovering near the runway during a routine training exercise at Carlisle Regional Airport. The small-plane pilot was killed, while two state police troopers aboard the helicopter were injured, authorities said.
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A Cessna 150 collided with a Pennsylvania State Police Bell 407 helicopter hovering near the runway during a routine training exercise at Carlisle Regional Airport. The small-plane pilot was killed, while two state police troopers aboard the helicopter were injured, authorities said.
Latvia identified a drone shot down in its airspace as Ukrainian, while Romania used an F-16 to destroy an explosive-laden maritime drone near the Neptun Deep gas platform. Separately, Ukrainian forces said a Sting interceptor drone downed a Russian UAV at 7,472 meters.
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A near miss involving Marine One has renewed scrutiny of airspace safety around Washington, D.C., highlighting the operational risks of managing high-priority government helicopter movements alongside other aircraft in one of the nation’s most tightly controlled and complex aviation environments.
The U.S. Army will resume AH-64 Apache training missions after pausing operations following a fatal crash in Texas that killed two soldiers during a training exercise. The decision follows earlier aviation stand-downs after multiple Army helicopter accidents, including 12 soldier deaths in Alaska and Kentucky.
The NTSB has released docket information on the Philadelphia Learjet medevac accident, with investigators focusing on somatogravic illusion and the aircraft’s pitch-trim setting. The materials provide additional detail on the safety investigation’s examination of flight-control and human-factors considerations.
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Seven people, including the pilot, five U.S. citizens and Ecuador’s intelligence chief, were killed when a Kenya-registered EC130 helicopter chartered by anBeyond crashed near Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County. The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft came down in an inaccessible area during a safari flight.
A helicopter has crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to aviation authorities. The number of passengers aboard and the circumstances of the crash were not immediately known, leaving the scale of the event and any operational or safety implications unresolved.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15J suffered a main landing-gear collapse while landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, skidding and turning 180 degrees before stopping with its left wing touching the runway. The incident temporarily closed one of the airport’s two commercial runways, while flights continued on the other.
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