The flight data recorder monitors a plane’s altitude, airspeed and heading, according to the NTSB. Those factors are among at least 88 parameters that newly built planes must monitor.

Actually, you are far more likely to die from poisoning (15,206 deaths a year), at work (5,800) or even being electrocuted (410) than in a plane accident, the agency's research found.

The plane is still smoking as people gather around, asking: "Can you get out at all, or you stuck?" By Daniela Cado and NBC6 • Published July 14, 2025 • Updated on July 14, 2025 at 1:36 pm ...

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911 calls reveal frantic moments and neighbors rallying to save passengers in small plane that crashed into Pembroke Pines neighborhood ...

Video from a resident's surveillance camera shows the plane crashing into a tree in front of a home on SW 14 Street at SW 68 Boulevard, about a mile east of North Perry Airport, just after 8 p.m.

The unbalanced plane crashed after passengers panicked; reptile was smuggled. Oct. 22, 2010— -- A small airplane crashed in Africa, killing all but one of the passengers after a crocodile ...

What the ‘black box’ can tell us about plane crashes A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off ...