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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
NTSB releases preliminary report on Lancaster County plane crash
(WHTM) – The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on a Lancaster County plane crash that sent two people to a burn unit and injured three others. The NTSB says that on March 9, 2025, after the Beech A36TC departed from Lancaster Airport, the pilot heard a loud 'pop' and realized the cabin door had opened. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now A passenger also reported seeing the plane door opening 'as soon as the airplane left the ground.' One passenger was holding the door closed. The pilot pulled the throttle back, and thought he pushed the throttle back forward. The pilot realized the plane's speed was not increasing and immediately looked for a place to land, the report shows. The pilot said he was unable to recall anything following that point. A passenger also reported the plane turned left and started 'shaking' after the door opened. 'IMMEDIATE FIREBALL:' Witnesses describe Lancaster County plane crash scene The report shows security footage of the incident recorded the plane's wings rocking and the tail of the plane being low before it crashed into the parking lot of Brethren Village, a local retirement community. Audio from air traffic control showed that the pilot requested a return to Lancaster Airport due to the open door. The air traffic control tower directed the plane to pull up shortly before the plane crashed. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now The plane, destined for Springfield, Ohio, hit several cars on the ground, but no one outside the plane was hurt. Witnesses to the accident or those who have surveillance video or other information that could be relevant to the investigation are asked to contact the NTSB at witness@ A full report from the NTSB could take up to a year to be released. Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Apple TV devices Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- General
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Pilot, son released from burn center after Lancaster plane crash
(WHTM) — A pilot and his son have been discharged from the Lehigh Valley Burn Center after last month's plane crash in Lancaster County. According to a spokesperson for the Lehigh Valley Health Network, Matthew and Judah White were both discharged after receiving care for about a month at the burn center. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Both initially arrived at the burn center in critical condition but were updated to being in 'fair' condition late last month. Matthew White was piloting the six-seat Beechcraft Bonanza when it crashed into a parking lot at the Brethren Village, a local retirement community, on March 9 shortly after taking off from Lancaster Airport. Pennsylvania Plane Crash: Pilot's audio details moments leading up to crash Three other passengers were taken to Lancaster General Hospital, and no injuries were reported on the ground. The NTSB is continuing to investigate the crash. Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Apple TV devices Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Lancaster County plane crash victims in ‘fair' condition at hospital, officials say
(WHTM) — Officials provided an update Thursday on the condition of the two Lancaster County plane crash victims still hospitalized at the Leigh Valley Burn Center. A spokesperson for Leigh Valley Health Network wrote in an email that pilot Matt and his son Judah White are in 'fair' condition, meaning that 'Vital signs are stable and within normal limits. Patient is conscious, but may be uncomfortable. Indicators are favorable.' They have been at the burn center since the fiery plane crash in the Brethren Village retirement community parking lot shortly after taking off from the Lancaster Airport Sunday, March 9, around 3 p.m. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now The five people on the plane, who were all family members, in total were injured and taken to Lancaster General Health after the crash, and Matt, along with Judah, was flown to Leigh Valley. A third patient was taken to the center by way of ambulance. No one was killed and no one on the ground was injured. The plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, was headed to Ohio when Matt turned it around after finding a door was open. The investigation into the crash is being handled by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is working with the FAA. The NTSB will put out a preliminary report that will be released 30 days after the crash, while the full investigation can take up to 24 months. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Did Trump reverse the tide or ride it? Voter registration in Pennsylvania
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Lancaster Airport on November 03, 2024 in Lititz. (Photo by) In light of the success that statewide Republican candidates had in 2024, some analysts hint that Pennsylvania is headed the way of Florida, a one-time swing state that has become reliably Republican. The state's Democratic partisan voter registration advantage has declined from 1.2 million to around 340,000 over the last decade, and there have been geographic, demographic and social changes happening within each party. But did Trump really drive those changes? And do they represent a durable realignment in the state that advantages Republicans, making them the state's dominant party? Aligning changes in voter registration to a president's term of office is the most logical way to understand the impact of presidential personalities and policies on state politics. The single largest period of partisan change this century took place during the second term of the Bush administration, when Democratic registration surged and Republican registration sank. Voters in the second term of the Bush administration were extraordinarily negative about Bush's performance and it drastically changed the state's partisan balance, giving Democrats a registration advantage of 1.2 million voters by the end of his term. The single largest drop in Democratic partisan registration since 2000 took place during Biden's term of office, which again corresponds to a period of relatively poor presidential ratings, even among Biden's own partisans. The greatest increase in Republican registration this century occurred during Trump's first term, but the largest relative growth was among third-party registrants. In fact, growth in unaffiliated and third-party registration outpaced growth for the major parties during every administration this century except during Bush's second term. While both major parties had registration growth since 2000, third-parties had the most relative growth, rising from under 800,000 voters in 2000 to 1.4 million in 2024. From a historical perspective, the Trump bump is more a bend than a bounce. Partisan registration shares may have converged a bit faster after 2016, but there is no pronounced jump in registration as has appeared at other periods in the state's history. The most abrupt change in the state's voter registration happened between 1932 and 1936, during Franklin Roosevelt's first term. Roosevelt's candidacy and presidency profoundly changed the state's politics, finally making it possible for Democrats to compete in the state. Other presidential eras have also produced noticeable breaks with past trends. The most pronounced changes took place in 1956 – 1960, 1972 – 1976, and 2004 – 2008, but none has come close to driving change like FDR's New Deal. The partisan movements associated with the Trump era fall closer to the normal rates of change evident throughout recent history than to the largest disruptions of past eras, perhaps because Trump had no objectively obvious economic tailwinds to ride. Many people reported being worse off economically in 2024 than in the prior year, but objective measures of GDP did not show a recession. The sharpest swings in voter registration have usually coincided with sizable recessions. Identifying critical elections that signal a break from past politics is hard to do in real time. Sometimes a critical election produces a sudden notable change that fades gradually, as happened during the New Deal Era. In other circumstances, the initial changes are small but ripple outward and grow over time. Some scholars believe this happened in the mid-to-late 1960s and played out into the emergence in the 1990s of sustainable Republican U.S. House majorities. The evidence from history suggests that the Trump era, while significant for many reasons, has not been outside the norms of historical partisan switching. History also suggests the electoral ripple effects could play out for some time. The changes in registration taking place during the past decade were mostly created by President Trump taking advantage of the changes already happening within the state's electorate, including movement away from both major parties. The Trump-driven move in registrations does not yet give Republicans a durable advantage. The electoral implications of the state's partisan shifts point to a near future that remains highly competitive because of a smaller registration advantage for Democrats and a rising share of unaffiliated voters. Democrats had the opportunity in 2008 to create changes to the policy status quo that could have cemented their partisan advantages, but they failed. A similar opportunity now belongs to the Republicans, who enjoy not only Trump's presence in the White House but also bicameral majorities in the House and Senate and a sympathetic Supreme Court. Will Republicans be more successful than Obama-era Democrats were at creating a new policy coalition from an electorate longing for change? Their policies will matter more than the president's personal popularity if they hope to build a sustainable and enduring advantage in future elections. Berwood Yost is the director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Yahoo
Pennsylvania plane crash: Hospital provides update on victims
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Two of the victims involved in last weekend's plane crash in Lancaster County remain in critical condition, according to a spokesperson from the Lehigh Valley Health Network. The spokesperson said that the pilot, Matthew White, and a passenger, identified as Judah White, are currently in critical condition after being transported to the Lehigh Valley Burn Recovery Center following the crash. FAA releases preliminary information on Pennsylvania plane crash A third victim was transported to the burn center, but their identity is currently unknown. A Lancaster General Hospital Official said two other victims were not transported to the burn center. Their conditions are unknown. The six-seater private plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, crashed into a parking lot of the Brethren Village, a retirement community, shortly after taking off from Lancaster Airport on Sunday, March 9. This is a developing story. Stay with abc27 News as more information becomes available Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
