At least two people were killed in a midair collision involving two small planes in southern Arizona, United States on Wednesday morning.
The planes collided near Marana Regional Airport on the outskirts of Tucson, following which two people on board each plane lost their lives, news agency Associated Press reported citing federal air-safety investigators as saying.
The National Transportation Safety Board said based on preliminary information that one plane landed uneventfully with the other hitting the ground near a runway and bursting into flames.
The incident occurred after an American Airlines aircraft crashed mid-air with a military Black Hawk chopper in Washington DC in late January this year.
The Marana Police Department confirmed the death of two persons after responding to the crash.
BREAKING: Another American Plane Crash under the Trump administration today in Arizona. What’s going on?
We’ve had at least 9 plane crashes since Trump took office. Do you think this has anything to do with him firing many valuable FAA workers?
Repeat after me:
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— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 19, 2025
In a separate incident last week in Arizona, an aircraft veered off a runway in Scottsdale and hit a business jet, killinh one of the two pilots on the private jet owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil.
Series Of Aviation Disasters In US
Four major aviation disasters have happened in the last one month in North America, with the most recent involving a Delta jet that flipped on its roof while landing in Toronto.
In another plane crash in Alaska, all 10 people on board a regional airline flight were killed after the plane crashed off the coast of western Alaska. The bodies were later recovered and identified hours after it went missing.
In late January, as many as 67 people onboard an American Airlines died after an Army helicopter collided with it in Washington, DC, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 2001.
Just a day after this crash, a medical transport plane carrying a child patient, her mother, and four others, crashed into a Philadelphia neighbourhood, killing seven people, including all those on board. The crash took place on January 31. The plane had exploded into a fireball and engulfed several home after the crash, injuring 19 others.
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