A small airplane crashed and left one person dead near Chandler Municipal Airport on the night of July 28, 2026, according to officials.

“The tragedy of Flight 445 was not the result of a single failure, but a series of preventable breakdowns that eroded critical safety margins,” the NTSB chair said

A landing gear failure caused the private jet owned by Vince Neil – the lead singer of Mötley Crüe – to crash into a parked private jet on Monday, killing its 78-year-old co-pilot.

A pilot of an overloaded commuter plane appears to have been distracted by icy conditions and didn’t pay attention to his airspeed, leading to a crash that killed all 10 people onboard, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Thursday.

The plane is believed to have taken off from the Chandler airport shortly before it crashed into a commercial storage yard.

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A Piper PA-22 carrying a pilot and two passengers was landing at the Dan Creek airstrip Monday night when it struck “terrain” and burst into flames, the FAA said.

Federal investigators on Thursday released the final accident report on the Feb. 6, 2025, Bering Air commuter crash that killed 10 people on Norton Sound sea ice, citing a combination of severe in-flight icing and a heavily overloaded aircraft as central to the tragedy.