Plane crashes receive significant media attention, such as the mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter above the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. in January 2025 that killed all 67 passengers aboard both aircraft and dominated national headlines.

Investigators are working to understand how a small plane crashed into a hovering Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near Carlisle Airport.

The couple were travelling from Tatenhill Airport in a Piper PA28 aircraft hired from Sherwood flying club An inquest has opened into the deaths of a husband and wife who died in a plane crash. Sheetal Swali and Ketan Swali from Syston,

Federal investigators are headed to Cumberland County where they plan to document the wreckages of a private plane and a state police helicopter after a fatal crash Wednesday night at the Carlisle Airport.

A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the plane crashed Thursday afternoon with 2 people on board.

A Cessna 150 airplane and a Bell 407 Pennsylvania State Police helicopter collided in midair near Carlisle on Wednesday, leaving a pilot dead and two state troopers injured.

Travis and the late DJ AM were the only survivors of the fatal crash.

Body camera footage released by local authorities shows a Marine Corps pilot shortly after his F/A-18 crashed into the mountains and he parachuted to safety earlier this summer.