Mid-Air Collision Involving Single-Engine Planes at Marana, AZ, Airport Leaves Two Dead
New York Daily News
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Authorities in Arizona are investigating a deadly mid-air collision that occurred roughly 20 miles outside Tucson Wednesday morning.
The Marana Police Department said two deaths were confirmed following the crash between “smaller fixed-wing single-engine planes” that happened around 8:30 a.m. local time near a regional airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the collision involved a Cessna 172S and a Lancair 360 MK II. The cause of the crash is being investigated.
One local pilot told Arizona station KOLD that he was about to fly his plane out of Marana Regional Airport, but was told shortly before takeoff that the airfield was closed.”
Wednesday’s crash comes two days after a Delta plane landing in Toronto wound-up on its back on a frigid runway. The cause of that crash, in which no one died, is also under investigation.
Both incidents follow reports that the Trump administration is in the process of firing hundreds of provisional FAA employees amid an especially deadly period of air travel in North America. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed last week that fewer than 400 agency workers were cut and said none of them were involved in air traffic control.
On Jan. 29, a collision between American Eagle passenger plane and a military helicopter left 67 people dead outside Washington D.C. Days later, seven people were killed when a medical transport jet crashed in Philadelphia.
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