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Southwest Airlines Flight Abruptly Rises to Avoid Another Plane Crossing Chicago Runway

Wednesday, February 26 by AP

CHICAGO (AP) — Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport were forced to climb back into the sky to avoid another aircraft crossing the runway on Tuesday morning.Airport webcam video posted to X shows the Southwest plane approaching a runway just before 9 a.m. Tuesday before its nose...

Men from Perry, Yukon & Stillwater Die in Plane Crash Monday Night

Tuesday, December 6 by Lyman James

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports that three men have died in a plane crash at the C.E. Page Airport in Canadian County. The accident was reported at approximately 9:20 Monday night. 53 year old Christopher Lamb, of Perry, was the pilot of the 1971 Beechcraft Bonanza F33A aircraft that was involved in the accident. ...

New details show that plane involved in crash near Pond Creek was “nearly vertical”

Wednesday, March 30 by Lyman James

News Channel 8 in Tulsa reports that a plane that crashed in northern Oklahoma, killing three Nebraskans, was nearly vertical when in struck the ground, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. “A witness in the area reported (seeing) the airplane come straight down in a right-hand nose down spin,”...

Nebraska couple and daughter killed in plane crash near Pond Creek on Thursday

Monday, March 21 by Lyman James

A Nebraska couple and their adult daughter were killed in the crash of a small plane in northwestern Oklahoma, according to an official at a funeral home the couple owned. William Lauber, 58, and his wife, Christine Lauber, 58, both of Milford, Nebraska, and their daughter Regan Lauber, 21, of Lincoln, Nebraska, all died in...