- At least two people have died after two small single-engine planes collided midair Wednesday, February 19, at an Arizona airport in the United States (US)
- A Lancair 360 MK II and a Cessna 172S collided at Marana Regional Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said
- Legit.ng reports that the airport is an uncontrolled field, meaning it does not have an operating air traffic control tower
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Arizona, USA - A midair collision involving two small planes in southern Arizona killed at least two people on Wednesday, February 19.
As reported by Yahoo News, the National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating the collision near Marana Regional Airport on the outskirts of Tucson.
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The Marana Police Department confirmed two deaths after responding to the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration stated that two people were aboard each plane involved in the collision.
The video of the incident is currently trending on social media platforms.
The incident followed a recent string of aviation incidents beginning with the January 29 midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people when a military helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet collided.
Since then, four other aviation incidents have drawn attention to air safety, including the crash of a medevac plane in Philadelphia; a plane that crashed near Nome, Alaska, killing 10 people; a private plane that ran off the runway in Scottsdale, Arizona, killing the pilot on board; and more recently, a Delta Air Lines regional jet that rolled over on the runway on arrival in Toronto.
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Concerns over air safety
Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating these recent crashes to determine what caused them and look for ways to prevent similar incidents.
There have already been troubling revelations about the January midair collision, but it would take more than a year to get the full report on what happened.
Experts stressed that flying is by far the safest form of travel.
Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said the risk of dying on a flight is close to zero. According to him, the high-profile accidents of late are a coincidence.
Barnett said:
“Twelve million people board planes every day, on average, each year. The overwhelming majority of days not a single passenger is injured let alone killed.”
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Plane crashes in Toronto, Canada
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that some passengers were seen in a crashed Delta Airlines aeroplane when they were waiting desperately to be helped by rescue workers.
In a video posted on TikTok, the passengers were spotted upside down because the plane's fuselage had flipped.
According to news reports, the plane crash happened at the Canadian Toronto Pearson Airport.
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