Los Angeles:
At least two people have been confirmed to have been killed after two small planes collided in the air at Arizona’s Marana Regional Airport, officials said.
Cessna 172 and Lankaa 360 MK II collided on the windward side of Runway 12 on Wednesday morning, according to preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The planes that collided were both identified as Cessna 172S and Lankaa 360 MK II, both as fixed-wing single-engine aircraft, the NTSB said in a statement from X.
The NTSB, which is leading the investigation into the incident, said based on preliminary information, the aircraft, one of the airport’s two runways, “had a crash on the windward side of Runway 12.”
According to the Marana Police Department, both planes were smaller, fixed wing single-engine planes.
The Marana Police Station is currently on the scene at the airport.
The NTSB added that Cessna “had been on a good turnaround,” and that Langkae had an impact on the terrain near Runway 3, followed by post-impact fire.”
No information is provided regarding the victim.
The fatal collision comes just weeks after a helicopter collided with an American Airlines airliner in Washington, D.C., killing all 64 passengers and three crew members.
In the same week, a small medical transport crashed into several buildings in the city of Philadelphia, USA, with all six on board and at least one other person on the ground.
On Monday, a Delta flight in Toronto slid down along the fire runway, turning it over and upside down the dramatic stop. All 80 people on board survived.
On February 6th, a small plane carrying 10 people crashed in Alaska after losing speed and altitude and disappeared from the radar. The Cessna 208b Grand Caravan has been recovered from the village of Unalakleet to the town of Gnome. No one survived, the Alaska Public Safety Department confirmed.
On February 10, two private jets collided at Arizona’s Scottsdale airport, killing one person and injuring four people.
Then one followed in Canada on Monday, following a gust of crash falls in the US. A Delta Air Lines regional jet carrying 80 people crashed and turned over at Toronto Pearson International Airport, leaving nearly 20 injured but not killed.
The latest crash comes Wednesday when the U.S. Airlines Division called on Congress for emergency funds for air traffic control technology and staffing.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published by Syndicate Feed.)
