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On Friday, May 8, 2015, around 10 a.m., a single-engine Piper PA-32 crashed on interstate 285 at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard just north of Atlanta after taking off from DeKalb Peachtree Airport.

Shortly after midnight on April 7, 2015, a Cessna 414A carrying seven men returning from the NCAA Final Four championship game in Indianapolis crashed into a field approximately two miles east of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington.

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed approximately 52 minutes after takeoff near the remote towns of Barcelonnette and Digne-les-Bains in the French Alps.

Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus 320, landed short of the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia.

On Dec. 28, 2014, AirAsia flight QZ8501 traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control.

On July 17, 2014 at approximately 14:15 GMT, (9:15 a.m. EST) Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 lost contact with Ukrainian air traffic control as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. According to Malaysian Airlines, the flight carried 283 passengers and 15 crew.

On the night of Saturday, May 31, 2014, a Gulfstream IV private jet departing from Hanscom Air Force Base approximately 20 miles northwest of Boston and carrying seven passengers reportedly crashed and caught fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

At approximately 2:40 a.m. (UTC) on Saturday, March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lost contact with the Subang Air Traffic Control. The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and was in route to Beijing, China.

Motley Rice aviation attorney and former Inspector General for the Department of Transportation Mary Schiavo talks with Bloomberg about significant findings from the NTSB Investigative Hearing into the fatal July 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.

Motley Rice transportation and aviation attorney and former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo discusses the Dec. 1, 2013, New York Metro-North commuter train crash with a number of national media outlets.