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• Ed White, Rebecca Boone
An F-16 assigned to the Texas Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Wing crashed in a residential area of Grand Traverse County, Michigan, during a training flight on Sept. 17. The pilot ejected safely and was reported in stable condition; radio traffic indicated a possible bird strike.
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An F-16 assigned to the Texas Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Wing crashed in a residential area of Grand Traverse County, Michigan, during a training flight on Sept. 17. The pilot ejected safely and was reported in stable condition; radio traffic indicated a possible bird strike.
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China will establish a permanent airspace security zone roughly the size of Italy around Beijing from September 20, restricting access to commercial, approved business and emergency flights. Authorities are also banning most drone possession across the city, months after a small aircraft crashed into the capital’s tallest building.
A Sepehran Airlines Boeing 737-300 experienced violent vibration during a rejected takeoff or shortly after departure from Mashhad, causing cabin panels and overhead components to detach. The aircraft returned for an emergency landing at Hashemi Nejad International Airport; the reports do not provide casualty information or a confirmed cause.
UK investigators found that a nose-down elevator input preceded an ATR 72-500 freighter’s heavy touchdown at East Midlands Airport. The aircraft bounced three times and sustained landing-gear damage, highlighting the operational consequences of pitch-control inputs during the flare and touchdown phases.
A Cirrus SR22T crashed near Leukerbad in Switzerland’s Valais canton on Sept. 15, killing all three people aboard, including two British citizens. The aircraft had departed Lugano and was en route to Buochs after a stop in Sion when it went down in mountainous terrain.
Yemen’s Houthi movement claims it shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 near Marib on Sept. 16, 2026, releasing video and images of purported wreckage. If confirmed, the incident would mark the first combat loss of an Advanced Eagle variant, though the crew’s status remains unknown.
A Congolese inquiry has disclosed that Trans Air’s 56-year-old DC-8 freighter was returning to Kinshasa for an emergency landing before it left the runway. Investigators have provided additional details on the occurrence, but the full circumstances remain unresolved.
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An NBC Los Angeles NewsChopper 4 Eurocopter AS350 B2 crashed in Chatsworth while covering an earlier fatal bus collision, killing an aerial journalist, the pilot and a person on the ground. Two other people were hospitalized after the helicopter descended onto a commercial property.
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