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NJ woman killed after booking a flying lesson with her daughter. It had been a long-standing dream to learn to fly.

Federal officials say the pilot of a small plane that crashed in a New Jersey neighborhood last month told them the plane started losing power just before it went down.

It's the second time this month that such a 1940s-era plane has crashed in New Jersey.

A small single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a residential neighborhood near Route 18.

An EgyptAir plane from Paris to Cairo carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- A private plane returning from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis crashed in a central Illinois field on Tuesday, killing all seven people on board, including Illinois State University's associate head basketball coach and a deputy athletics director.

PARIS (AP) -- The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain's frantic pounding on the cockpit door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Airplanes don't just fall out of the sky. The Germanwings plane that crashed Tuesday in France was at the safest part of flight. Yet, something went horribly wrong, leading to the death of 150 passengers and crew.

Developments in the crash of a Germanwings airliner over southern France Tuesday are being posted by Associated Press as details become available. 5:25 p.m. (1625 GMT, 12:25 p.m. EDT) A spokesman for the French Civil Aviation authority says the plane that crashed in the French Alps with 150 people on board never sent out a distress signal...

KUTTAWA, Ky. (AP) -- Bleeding and alone, 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler had just survived a plane crash that killed her family. She walked through about a mile of woods and thick briar patches, wearing only a short-sleeve shirt, shorts and no shoes in near-freezing temperatures when she saw a light in the distance.