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A small plane crashed into a central California hospital's unoccupied office building and burst into flames just after takeoff.

One passenger was killed and 34 were injured when lightning hit an airplane and caused it to split into at least two parts when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, Gov. Pedro Gallardo told CNN en Espanol.

The pilot of a Canadian fighter plane has made a miraculous escape from his jet, seconds before it smashed into the ground.

A U.S. Navy aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Wednesday and one of the four crew members is still missing, the military said in a statement....

The kit-built single-engine plane had turned into a glider, almost silently trying to make an emergency landing along a stretch of beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, ear buds in, listening to his iPod while jogging neither saw nor heard it and was struck from behind Monday evening and killed instantly....

Emergency crews are at the scene of a small plane crash in an East Palo Alto neighborhood.

Police in Maryland say a homeless man tried to leave town in a stolen plane but crashed the single-engine aircraft on a municipal airport runway before he ever left the ground.

Murky water hampers the search for victims after the crash of the private plane and sightseeing copter, which occurred in uncontrolled airspace.

The crash of an Iranian plane that killed 168 was probably caused by technical problems, an official says.

A Caspian Airlines passenger aircraft linking Tehran and Armenia crashed in Iran on Wednesday, and at least 150 people on board are feared killed, state media reported.