A wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane in New Mexico has triggered evacuations for a rural area north of the Capitan Mountains and closures in the Lincoln National Forest.

A pilot in his 20s is dead after the plane he was flying crashed late Monday morning just outside of Westerly State Airport.

A small plane crashed midday Monday at Westerly State Airport in Westerly, Rhode Island, sending its sole occupant to the hospital and drawing a major response from local police and fire crews. The crash was reported at about 12:15 p.

The incident happened on Friday as the plane was scooping water to drop on a wildfire in Portage Township, northeast of Orr in northern St. Louis County.

One person was taken to the hospital after a small plane crashed on Monday in Westerly, RI.

Minor injuries were reported after a plane with two people on board flipped over on takeoff on Monday, May 18, at Westchester County Airport. It was a flight-school flight, a county spokesperson said. Crews were observed lifting the plane using a crane ...

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One man died after his small plane crashed in a field near Westerly State Airport while approaching for landing.

Federal safety investigators will hold hearings this week examining why the engine flew off a UPS cargo plane last year, causing a crash that killed 15 people, and why Boeing didn’t address the underlying flaw sooner.