Editing Albany International Airport (section)

== Incidents and accidents ==

On September 16, 1953, [[American Airlines Flight 723]], a [[Convair CV-240 family|Convair 240]], was flying [[Boston]]-[[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]]-[[Albany, New York|Albany]]-[[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]]-[[Rochester, New York|Rochester]]-[[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]-Detroit-Chicago when it crashed and caught fire after flying into a series of radio towers in a fog while descending for landing. All 28 occupants on board (25 passengers and three crew) were killed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530916-0 |title=Accident description (Record 19530916-0) |work=[[Aviation Safety Net]] | publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]] | access-date=September 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615172051/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530916-0 |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On March 3, 1972, [[Mohawk Airlines Flight 405]], a [[Fairchild F-27|Fairchild Hiller FH-227]], crashed into a house in [[Albany, New York|Albany]], on approach to Albany County Airport. The crew had difficulty getting the cruise lock to disengage in one of the engines. While the crew attempted to deal with the problem, the aircraft crashed short of the airfield, killing 16 of the 48 people in the aircraft and one person on the ground.

On June 17, 2024, at approximately 8:15 A.M., a [[Piper PA-31 Navajo]] carrying one pilot took off from Runway 19 at the Albany International Airport only to crash minutes later next to neighborhood and library property in Colonie, killing the pilot. The plane was headed to Montreal, where the pilot had been returning after a previous landing in [[Fayetteville, North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gorenstein |first=Ben |date=2024-06-17 |title=Dramatic video shows moment plane crashed near Colonie neighborhood |url=https://wnyt.com/top-stories/dramatic-video-shows-moment-plane-crashed-near-colonie-neighborhood/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=WNYT.com NewsChannel 13 |language=en-US}}</ref> Two members from the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] arrived to the scene of the crash along with several police vehicles and EMTs, with members from [[National Transportation Safety Board|The National Transportation Safety Board]] travelling to [[Albany, New York|Albany]] from [[Washington, D.C.]] to investigate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Darmanjian |first=Sarah |date=2024-06-17 |title=Pilot killed in Colonie plane crash |url=https://wnyt.com/top-stories/reported-aircraft-crash-in-colonie/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=WNYT.com NewsChannel 13 |language=en-US}}</ref>