SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a small plane that crashed on a Utah highway made an emergency landing on the same highway last year. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the single-engine plane hit a billboard Sunday and crashed near Ogden-Hinckley Airport on Interstate 15. The pilot […]
HENEFER, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a single-engine plane with two people aboard has crashed in Utah. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer told news outlets that the crash occurred Thursday in a mountainous area several miles west of Henefer in Morgan County. It’s not known whether anybody was injured […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is banning drone flights over Utah’s Tooele Army Depot west of Salt Lake City. The FAA announced Friday that the depot is one of 11 “national security sensitive locations” around the country where airspace will be closed to drones. The Salt […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In Utah, drones are hovering near avalanches to watch roaring snow. In North Carolina, they’re searching for the nests of endangered birds. In Kansas, they could soon be identifying sick cows through heat signatures. Public transportation agencies are using drones in nearly every state, according […]
ALPINE, Utah (AP) — A husband and wife from Ballard have been identified as the two people killed in the crash of a small helicopter in the central Utah mountains. Utah County Sheriff’s officials say the pilot was 32-year-old Benno Anthony Penna with his 32-year-old wife Megan Michele Hawk Penna […]
ALPINE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a small helicopter crashed in mountains of central Utah, killing the two people aboard. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash that occurred Friday on a steep, snow slope near Alpine. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that future traffic in check using a video game. The simulation unveiled Wednesday […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah airport serving more than 200,000 commercial passengers a year will close for four months to let crews rip up and rebuild a runway undermined by unstable blue clay. St. George Regional Airport manager Rich Stehmeier tells The Spectrum the closure is scheduled May 29 […]
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (AP) — Utah County authorities say small plane’s pilot escaped serious injury when it crashed and flipped while attempting to land on an exposed part of the bed of Utah Lake. The Sheriff’s Office says the pilot was able to walk away from his plane after it […]
