A day after pilot Harlan "Lanny" Northcott and his two passengers died while attempting to fly a cancer patient home, his devastated family tried to cope with their loss. ...more

July 19, 2008

A Valrico man was one of three South Florida crewmen who survived a Miami-bound cargo jet crash outside the Colombian capital early Monday that killed two people on the ground and injured five others onboard. ...more

July 7, 2008

A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway. ...more

July 4, 2008

Federal investigators have determined that mechanical troubles combined with pilot error to cause the fiery crash two years ago of a twin-propeller aircraft that slammed into a Davis Islands home, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - A pilot's poor decisions and a mechanical malfunction led a plane to crash while making an emergency landing at Peter O. Knight airport two years ago, according to the National Transportation Safety Board's final report on the crash, which was released this week. On June 12, 2006, a Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication flight crashed through a fence, trees and a vehicle and, finally, into a house. ...more

July 1, 2008

The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the United States. ...more

June 5, 2008

A preliminary report offers cold, hard facts but doesn't answer the question of why a plane carrying a Brandon pastor and his son crashed into the side of a North Carolina mountain. ...more

May 23, 2008

TAMPA - No cause is provided, but the National Transportation Safety Board today released a report on the North Carolina plane crash that killed the Rev. Forrest Pollock of Brandon and his 13-year-old son, Preston. ...more

May 22, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 18, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 17, 2008