The pilot of the plane that crashed in Armonk yesterday killing all four people on board had once safely landed his plane after its engines failed over Martha's Vineyard 15 years ago. 63-year-old Keith Weiner was an experienced pilot who lectured on emergency landings and would purposely turn off his engines at high altitudes to practice emergency procedures. "It must've been a mechanical failure," Weiner's 85-year-old father William—who is also a former pilot—tells the Post, "because my son wouldn't have failed." more ›

Yesterday afternoon, two small single-engine planes crashed in the air over Wawayanda, in New York's Orange County. The pilots of both planes were killed, and a witness said, "One clipped the other, clipped the wing is what it looked like from my angle. The one spiraled directly down, and the other was more at an angle over the hill." Also, one of the planes burst into flames while the other didn't. more ›

Yesterday morning, the pilot of a 1969 SIAI-Marchetti crashed into a residential street in East Farmingdale, Long Island. Pilot Gus Halouvas, who was apparently practicing "touch and go" landings, and two other passengers were injured while 75-year-old passenger Ed Cerverizzo died from his injuries. Cerverizzo's son said, "My dad's been flying for over 40 years, there's a lot of experience in that cockpit, something had to go really wrong." more ›

The National Transportation Safety Board released pre-flight transcripts from Flight 3407, the fatal flight from Newark that crashed near its destination of Buffalo in February, and it turns out that co-pilot Rebecca Shaw was in fact sick. She told pilot Marvin Renslow, while sniffling, "I'm ready to be in the hotel room. This is one of those times that if I felt like this when I was at home there's no way I would have come all the way out here. But now that I'm out here," to which Renslow said, "You might as well [fly]." Forty-nine people on the plane were killed; one person on the ground was killed. more ›

The National Transportation Safety Board began its three days of meetings examining Continental Flight 3407's fatal crash outside Buffalo this past February. Transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder reveal that Captain Marvin Renslow said, "Jesus Christ!" and swore as he scrambled to right the plane and that co-pilot Rebecca Shaw screamed right before the plane crashed. more ›