The small engine plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, was reporting engine trouble as it approached the runway, according to the Sylacauga airport.

An aircraft in distress is circling Lancaster Airport, preparing to make a landing, according to Manheim Township police.

According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.

The pilot of a skydiving plane lost power and attempted to glide onto a runway shortly before crashing into trees two weeks ago near the Cross Keys Airport in Gloucester County, federal officials said Thursday. The single-engine Cessna 208B, which had 15 people onboard, went down around 5:30 p.m. on July 2 in Williamstown.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.

Just-released 911 calls captured the desperate moments after a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood Sunday evening, as neighbors rushed into action. They came armed with sledgehammers, axes and hoses to save a family of four trapped inside the burning aircraft.