Another fatal plane crash? Are you kidding me?

I reckon it really happened.

@yukimori Learjet? The name sounds familiar.

This one was a Learjet. They're reporting that the landing gear failed and sent it into another plane that was parked.

Smaller planes in Texas. Or was it Arizona?

@TheHorse Yeah, that's what's being reported for the Learjet yesterday. I hadn't thought this happens that frequently, but in looking for information about the incident mentioned above I found there have been at least three incidents in this area in the last 6 months. September 8 a small plane crashed into a residential area about an hour away from us. October 31 a plane made an emergency landing in a field, no injuries. January 18 was the one that didn't quite make it to the runway and ended up on the side of the highway. Thinking about it, one of the emergency group admins posts runway alerts pretty frequently, too.

Landing gear collapse, apparently. If I am keeping all of the crashes correctly in memory.

@yukimori Landing gear failure is what I heard as well.

That would be sad.

It is odd. It shows how important support of airplane safety is.

@TheHorse Yes. It seems like there are lot mord plane crashes than we know of.

@arunima25 I have never researched how many fatal plane crahes there are in an average year in the US.

We live in odd times.

I don't remember anything like this

I hear that too.

Dang!

@TheHorse — you know what they say about lies, damn lies, and statistics. A plane crash can be defined in a lot of different ways, like a luggage car banging into one, necessitating repairs. It isn’t always one falling out of the sky. And, the also consider helicopters. Finally, most of these are “commuter” or “private” planes. Unless there’s a famous person aboard, you never hear about it outside of the area where it happened.

Is this over the past ten years?

I don't know either.