Investigators suggested that infrequent maintenance requirements, among other issues, appeared to contribute to the faulty part that caused the crash, which killed 15 people last year.

A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest.

A plane crashed in Akron Thursday afternoon in a residential area, according to Akron Police. Injuries and damage are unknown at this time.

A medical plane crash left all four people onboard dead Thursday morning in southeast New Mexico, authorities confirmed.

The nail-biting incident took place about 80 miles east off the coast of Melbourne, Florida, which is about 175 miles north of Miami.

“This is a devastating loss,” Lincoln County Sheriff Michael Wood said

Eleven people who survived a plane crash about 50 miles off the Florida coast were on a life raft for hours and had no idea anyone was coming to save them when rescue crews from the U.S. military arrived.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nearly a dozen people after a small plane crashed in Bahamian waters off the Florida coast on Tuesday, May 12.

"He was finally going to be able to fulfill his goal of taking care of us and starting our life with our children,” his wife said