Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking(wired.com)
431 points by dzdt | 225 comments
WIRED Big Story by Jeff Wise examining whether military GPS jamming tied to drone warfare caused a civilian plane crash in New Mexico.
#plane-crash on Hacker News
9 stories tagged plane-crash, newest first.
LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash(theguardian.com)
330 points by m_fayer | 266 comments
Guardian news article reporting that NASA safety reports show pilots warned of close calls at LaGuardia months before a deadly runway crash that killed two pilots.
UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport(avherald.com)
385 points by jnsaff2 | 397 comments
Aviation Herald report on a UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville airport; the captured screenshot instead shows a CBS News election results page.
Preliminary report into Air India crash released(bbc.co.uk)
385 points by cjr | 781 comments
BBC News live coverage of the preliminary investigation report into the Air India crash that killed 260, which says fuel switches were cut off before the crash.
Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard(theguardian.com)
407 points by Gud | 452 comments
Guardian live blog covering the crash of Air India flight AI171 to London Gatwick in Ahmedabad with 242 people onboard.
Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport(cbc.ca)
515 points by jaredwiener | 608 comments
CBC News live report on a plane that crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson airport, injuring 17 with no fatalities.
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash(fox13seattle.com)
399 points by TMWNN | 197 comments
FOX 13 Seattle news report that Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed in Washington's San Juan Islands.
YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash(justice.gov)
432 points by grecy | 234 comments
US Justice Department press release on Trevor Jacob, a Santa Barbara County YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing the federal probe into his staged plane crash.
YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail(news.yahoo.com)
394 points by tafda | 388 comments
AFP news article on Yahoo News reporting that a YouTuber who deliberately staged a plane crash for views faces up to 20 years in prison.