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DaveHarry(m): 11:54am On Feb 20

Two people are dead after two small aircraft collided in midair at an Arizona airport Wednesday, authorities said.

A Cessna 172S and Lancair 360 MK II collided at 8:28 a.m. near the Marana Regional Airport, just northwest of Tucson, according to preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The single-engine planes “collided while upwind of runway 12,” one of two runways at the airport. The Cessna landed, and the Lancair crashed and burned near the other runway, the NTSB said.

The Marana Police Department confirmed two deaths from the incident. Two people were on each plane, the Town of Marana said in a news release.

The operator of the Cessna – AeroGuard, a commercial flight training school – said its two pilots were not injured, the Associated Press reported.

The airport is closed while the investigation is ongoing, the town said.

“On behalf of the Town of Marana and the Marana Regional Airport, our hearts go out to all the individuals and families impacted by this event,” airport Superintendent Galen Beem said. “We are grateful for the swift response from the Marana Police Department and Northwest Fire District.”

“We are deeply saddened by the two fatalities from this tragic accident,” Matt Panichas, a spokesperson for AeroGuard, said in a statement to AP.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/us/arizona-plane-crash-marana/index.html?

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gsmphoneseller: 12:12pm On Feb 20

They're testing their tools

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Creamypie(m): 12:22pm On Feb 20

Abeg if u dey u.s no enter plane oh

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YeyeGbami: 12:23pm On Feb 20

Aliens get hand for these things. Trump needs to consult the oracle

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datola: 12:23pm On Feb 20

What's really happening to US of A and air mishaps

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Youngkhaleepha3(m): 12:24pm On Feb 20

What’s happening with aviation nowadays?

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Gotocourt: 12:24pm On Feb 20

You mean 2 two edo people collided mid air shocked

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SheikhMuniru(m): 12:25pm On Feb 20

Nigeria don't need anything to have with USA

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temmyyem: 12:25pm On Feb 20

This is what some of us call problem, reaction, solution. Since Trump and Elon Musk took over to implement their technocracy, problems upon problems, just to create reaction from the public so that the right solution which is AI automation can be intoduced.

Driveless cars, auto-pilots and AI controlled towers are the solutions to the problems they have created.

He who has ears to hear let him hear, the world as you know it is about to change.

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Christlike01: 12:25pm On Feb 20

What's even going on in the US?!

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TTPAAR(m): 12:25pm On Feb 20

Just imagine how traffic done dey increase for air.... Just within this year how many air collision.

Akalia(m): 12:25pm On Feb 20

US is just basking in past glory. Even a third world country like Nigeria does not experience such frequent and embarrassing aviation disaster.

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Daddyk87(m): 12:25pm On Feb 20

As usual.
If this was Nigeria , white people would have warned their citizens .
Ganusi oshee

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Saturnalia(m): 12:26pm On Feb 20

Flying of Airplanes should be banned in the “United Snakes of Amerika”.

They should all embrace Road Travels & Voyaging. grin

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Jeezuzpick(m): 12:26pm On Feb 20

US airspace is something else now o!

flipboss(m): 12:27pm On Feb 20

This is unbecoming tbh

lebienconnu: 12:27pm On Feb 20

The U.S. air transportation system is in desperate need of a bold and transformative overhaul, especially in light of the recent spate of avoidable, deadly air mishaps.

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fuckJones(f): 12:27pm On Feb 20

The National Transportation Safety Board has reported 87 aviation accidents (involving all kinds of aircrafts) since the start of the year. That includes 62 in January and 25 so far in February.

something is not right

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dapsoneh: 12:29pm On Feb 20

Gotocourt:
You mean 2 two edo people collided mid air

order sense from Temu, we will gladly pay

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iykofias(m): 12:29pm On Feb 20

Again?

mightyhaze: 12:30pm On Feb 20

Akalia:
US is just basking in past glory. Even a third world country like Nigeria does not experience such frequent and embarrassing aviation disaster.

amany planes dey Nigeria

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EmmyMaestro(m): 12:32pm On Feb 20

YeyeGbami:
Aliens get hand for these things. Trump needs to consult the oracle

He deport them back to Naija, unless he go to them make them come back to America

grin

Wizardslayer: 12:32pm On Feb 20

How many air planes do they have actively flying all over America

It's becoming too worrisome.

Originalsly: 12:32pm On Feb 20

Hmmm .... training flight again? The Black Hawk helicopter in the disaster was in training ...now this. Two small planes ... two landing strips ... lots of airspace .... daylight ... I want to believe the air traffic controller gave instructions that put them on collision course .... or one of the pilots was high.

FuckTheMod: 12:32pm On Feb 20

Every week ONE CRASH

UNITED STATES OF AMERICRASH

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sofeo(m): 12:33pm On Feb 20

U.S and plane crash and colliding.

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CheedyJ(m): 12:34pm On Feb 20