Three people have been injured in the crash of a small Virginia-registered plane in South Carolina.

A Russian heavy-lift military cargo plane crashed on takeoff Sunday in Siberia, killing all 11 crew members on board, officials said.

An 86-year-old Ohio man at the controls of a plane that crashed last year, killing him and five passengers, had been warned not to drive by his eye doctor, according to federal investigators.

Officials in Comoros say investigators have retrieved the flight data recorder from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean on June 30.

A witness says a small plane crash-landed in the parking lot of a northern New Jersey mall today.

The pilot of an ultralight plane that crashed into Lake Anna this afternoon died and a 17-year-old passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries. 

Virginia State Police have identified two of the four people killed in the July 5 crash of a single-engine airplane in Rockbridge County. Stepan Matkovski, 23, of Safety Harbor, Fla., and Ginny Brown Gajewski, 37, of Riverview, Fla., have been identified by the state medical examiner’s office, state police Sgt. R.J. Carpentieri said. Relatives have identified the other two victims as Daniel Dorsch, 56, of Tampa, Fla., the former CEO of the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants chain and his wife, Cynthia Dorsch, 55. Gajewski was Daniel Dorsch’s marketing and public-relations director.

An Iranian passenger plane crashed Wednesday in northwest Iran, killing all 168 people on board, state media reported.

Tampa, Fla., businessman Daniel Dorsch asked Washington air traffic control for help in the direction of flight just before his Pilatus PC-12 plane crashed Sunday morning in Rockbridge County. The crash killed Dorsch, his wife, Cynthia, and two others. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tim Monville said the pilot, believed to be Dorsch, radioed Washington about 9:55 a.m. to ask the air controller about adverse weather.

The National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that it is likely at least four people died on the single-engine plane that crashed Sunday on a farm just inside the Rockbridge County line. The family of prominent Lakeland-Tampa, Fla., businessman Daniel Dorsch said in a statement yesterday that two of the people on the Pilatus PC-12 plane were Dorsch and his wife, Cyndie.

A Florida business executive and his wife died in a small plane crash in Rockbridge County, family members confirmed today.

Two Herndon men were seriously injured yesterday afternoon when their small plane crashed into a wooded area near the Manassas Regional Airport. The men had taken off from the airport just before 5 p.m. when the plane began experiencing trouble, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. The pilot tried to return to the airport but lost altitude and crashed about a half mile from the airport’s south runway. Initial reports from the scene described one of the men as being in critical condition and the other with injuries that appeared to be non life-threatening.

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

WASHINGTON—Investigators blamed NASCAR for a “tragic, unnecessary” plane crash in 2007, saying the racing organization let one of its aircraft take off without checking an electrical problem reported the day before. NASCAR violated federal aviation rules when it allowed the small corporate plane back in the air on July 10, 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board said today.

WASHINGTON—NASCAR violated federal regulations when it allowed a plane involved in a deadly 2007 crash outside Orlando, Fla., to return to the air without maintenance after a pilot reported an electrical malfunction the previous day, federal investigators said today. The crash—which killed five people, including two children and an adult on the ground—was partly a result of sloppy maintenance record-keeping at NASCAR’s aviation unit, staff investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday. NASCAR has a fleet comparable to a small charter operation or a tiny airline.