It’s been a tragic week for aviation as two military jets, a skydiving plane and a charter jet crashed over the course of just four days.

A private plane crash in Maryland woods have claimed the lives of a pilot and two passengers, plunging their families and the aviation industry into grief.

MIDDLEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a reported plane crash in Geauga County on Saturday. Troopers from the patrol’s Chardon Post responded to the scene in Middlefield Township, according to a brief statement released by authorities.

A series of aviation incidents has drawn national attention, with crashes involving a small business jet, a skydiving plane and two military jets.

Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who founded Ubisoft in 1986, reportedly died in a twin-engine plane crash in La Baule, France.

A small jet airplane crashed into a lake in West Milford Saturday evening, the FAA and local police said. Only the pilot was aboard the experimental amateur-built SubSonex JSX-2 during the 6 p.m. crash at Green Turtle Pond. He removed himself from the craft and refused medical attention, West Milford police Capt. Anthony Parello said.

A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was barely recognizable.

A business jet with six on board crashed on a Laredo, Texas, highway and caught fire, killing one person and causing chaos as passersby frantically tried to save those inside.