January 29 US Army helicopter / American Airlines Crash in DC | Medical plane crash in Philly

NotChatGPT said:
Gearbox failure?

No idea why people get on Helicopters unless they have to for work reasons. I hate going offshore on helicopters
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I don't think helicopters are inherently any more risky than fixed-wing aviation. To me it seems to be just the same that matters most: it's not so much what you fly with, but who.

It will be interesting to see how it came to this in-flight breakup. The short video shows both the entire tail section and the main rotor assembly including at least some of the rotor shaft missing from the crashing helicopter. That's not something one sees every day outside of self-built experimental junkcraft.
 
Another plane crash in USA

A private plane carrying six people crashed in an open field in upstate New York on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities say.

Among those on board were celebrated former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) football player Karenna Groff, her parents and her brother, according to a family statement.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the family had been travelling for a holiday celebration when the crash happened.

A video of the final seconds of the flight obtained by officials showed the aircraft intact before it crashed into the ground at a high rate of descent, the NTSB said.
 
Ahmer Baig said:
Another plane crash in USA

A private plane carrying six people crashed in an open field in upstate New York on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities say.

Among those on board were celebrated former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) football player Karenna Groff, her parents and her brother, according to a family statement.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the family had been travelling for a holiday celebration when the crash happened.

A video of the final seconds of the flight obtained by officials showed the aircraft intact before it crashed into the ground at a high rate of descent, the NTSB said.
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That the MU-2 (the aircraft in this accident) is still allowed to be flown single-pilot and by private pilots is quite frankly ridiculous. It is well-known to be a real piece of work to fly and has an outrageously bad crash statistic, at 172 crashes involving 400 fatalities, all with only 704 aircraft built.

While the FAA requires special training, both inital and recurrent, to operate this aircraft, I don't believe that to be sufficient. Complicated high-performance aircraft in the hands of hobby pilots regularly produces accidents. In my opinion aircraft like this should require two experienced pilots, or at least transport of passengers should be prohibited with only one pilot at the helm.

There's already a short initial video about this accident:

It does not show a clear reason why the MU-2 crashed. The really botched approach had already been aborted, the aircraft's speed seemed alright and the altitude was too high, but stable up until the moment it suddenly went into a tight right bank and steep descent.
(Mind that the video botched the scale when overlaying the ADS-B data with the approach plate.)
 
Thread title needs to be changed to Airplane crashes 2025 of something like that as the thread is way beyond the current title now
 
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