Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over ...

Investigators are blaming a broken propeller blade for causing a military plane crash last year that left 16 service members dead in a Mississippi soybean field.Investigators with the Fourth Marine ...

When spiffy, high-tech, high-performance propellers go into the prop shop, they’re carefully restored to their original shape with sophisticated, computerized propeller repair tools, right? Well, no.

One of Joby Aviation’s pre-production prototypes broke up mid-flight after losing a propeller blade during envelope-pushing flight-testing in February 2022. That is according to a 7 February accident ...

JACKSON, Miss. – Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane ...