In honor of his 85th birthday on Sept. 14, Dennis Rawls received a special gift from his wife, Martha. He took a flight at the controls of a Cessna 172 out of Peter O. Knight Airport, the same place he took his first solo flight when he was 15, all of 70 years ago. ...more

September 23, 2009

Witnesses to January's single-engine plane crash into Old Tampa Bay said they saw the plane bank right and then left, then sweep up into the air before stalling and plunging into the water, according to federal investigators. ...more

December 25, 2008

Federal investigators say witnesses to a January single-engine plane crash into Old Tampa Bay said they saw the plane bank right and then left, then sweep up into the air before stalling and plunging into the water. ...more

December 22, 2008

Authorities have found the wreckage of two small planes that crashed near the Everglades, killing all three people on board. ...more

December 7, 2008

An airplane labeled Iraqi Air Force made an emergency landing on a rural Central Florida highway - near a town called Venus, no less. ...more

February 22, 2008

VENUS — Along an isolated road near the Highlands-Glades county line, a single-engine plane with Iraqi Air Force insignia was grounded Wednesday afternoon. Doug Oliver, a spokesman for Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kan., confirmed that the plane, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, is a basic training aircraft intended for sale to the Iraqi Air Force. There were no injuries or damages reported in the emergency landing. ...more

February 21, 2008

A single-engine plane on approach to St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport on Saturday afternoon plunged into Tampa Bay, killing the pilot and his parents. ...more

January 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A single-engine plane on approach to St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport on Saturday afternoon plunged into Tampa Bay, killing all three people aboard. ...more

January 12, 2008

Colleagues mourned hedge fund manager Michael Klein and his daughter Wednesday, a day after the Californians were killed when their plane crashed in a remote, mountainous region of Panama. ...more

December 27, 2007