When Jesse Biter decided to buy a plane, he didn't opt for a hulking, gold-plated palace in the sky. Instead, he chose a sharp-nosed Embraer Phenom 100 that he calls his “Suburban in the sky.” ...

It “made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water,” civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said. “The plane almost fell on us. I was fishing,” fisherman Aldair ...

The design includes a long, sharp nose and additional lifting surfaces ... Developing the overall design for the plane came with its own stumbling blocks, too. Muting the sonic boom has been ...

possibly perceiving the resulting acceleration as a sharp climb, pushed the control yoke aggressively forward. The plane plummeted from 6,000 feet to impact with the ground in 18 seconds.

The aircraft "made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water," civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said. "The plane almost fell on us. I was fishing," a fisherman ...