The city council of Lancaster just approved a program that will allow a Cessna to weave through the airspace of Antelope Valley for 10 hours a day while a camera rolls. The film will be sent to the sheriff's station on the ground and reviewed in real-time for people doing hilarious shit in the privacy of their own backyards crime, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. more ›

You know that sinking feeling you get when you notice you're about to run out of gas? The 65-year-old pilot of a Cessna flying to Hawaii got that feeling times a million somewhere over the Pacific last night. He radioed in his problem to the Coast Guard, and they talked him through a successful crash-landing just 13 miles off the coast of Hawaii last night. more ›

Federal investigators have begun a probe into Monday's small plane crash that found a single-engine Cessna smashing into a home in Santa Monica. Santa Monica Airport Director Robert Trimborn told the Santa Monica Mirror that the pilot was headed back to the Santa Monica Airport after taking off on a solo flight to Santa Barbara. more ›

The NTSB is investigating a small plane that crashed in Riverside County near Corona on Saturday, killing two people, according to ABC Local. more ›

Three employees of Tesla Motors were killed today in a twin-engine plane crash that took place shortly after takeoff this morning above East Palo Alto, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

Reports are just coming out now regarding a Cessna 210 that almost landed with its wheels up. "My heart was just pounding. The guy was 20 to 30 feet above the ground," Carlos Rodriguez, an Ontario Airport air traffic controller, said who was informed by a Southwest Airlines pilot who first saw the Cessna trying to land. Rodriguez then quickly informed another controller, Bruce Bradigan who told the pilot to abort landing. The pilot, William R. Otto, has been flying private planes for 30 years and didn't use his checklist for landing. As he told the LA Times: "I made a mistake." more ›

At least four people were critically injured after a twin-engine Cessna 310 airplane crashed in the 500 block of West Cypress in Compton this afternoon. more ›

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Two Sunday afternoon small-aircraft flights turned deadly yesterday when the planes collided mid-air over Corona, sending bodies and debris flying through the air and onto parking lots below and killing five people. more ›