National Transportation Safety Board

A helicopter crash in Alaska left five people dead late on Saturday, including one of the richest people in Europe, after the chopper went down during what authorities say was likely a backcountry heli-skiing trip.

Boeing 777s have been grounded around the world after the US aviation regulator announced an investigation into the United Airlines flight that suffered an engine failure on Saturday, showering debris over homes in Denver.

Friends, colleagues and fans mourned Kobe Bryant on Jan. 27 as federal investigators sifted through the wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball legend and eight other people, hoping to find clues to what caused the accident that stunned the world.

He told CNN that the FBI's evidence-gathering team was on site and assisting local authorities with the investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash and will determine the official cause. The FBI is also assisting the investigation, a standard practice.

A woman died after a Southwest Airlines jet suffered engine failure and made an emergency landing on Tuesday, marking the first accidental fatality on a domestic flight in nine years, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

A Turkish engineer died in a plane crash on a lake in Napa County in California on May 8, U.S. media reports have said.

The single-motor ICON A5 Amphibious Light Sport Aircraft, which has the ability to land on both land and at sea, crashed on Berryessa Lake around 20 minutes after takeoff, ABC7news reported quoting officials.

An F-16 fighter jet smashed into a small plane July 7 over the southern state of South Carolina, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide swath of marshes and rice fields.

A sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska June 25 killing all nine people onboard, US police said.

The Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was hurtling at  170 kph before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 80 kph, federal investigators said om May 13.

Film star Harrison Ford was injured on March 5 when the "Star Wars" actor crashed his vintage plane on a Los Angeles golf course shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, his publicist said.