Recent flight incidents related to the North Las Vegas Airport

AUG. 22

A homemade plane crashed into the home of Jack and Lucy Costa near Lake Mead Boulevard and Simmons Street, killing the elderly couple. The pilot, 76-year-old Mack Creekmore Murphree Jr., also died. The flight was intended to test a device meant to boost the engine's power, the plane's owner told a federal agency. The experimental Velocity 173 RG model had special authorization to use the North Las Vegas Airport as a hub to complete test flight requirements.

NOV. 26, 2006

A Cessna 414 hit a light pole and a wall before bursting into flames after crash landing on Jones Boulevard. The pilot reported engine trouble on the approach to North Las Vegas Airport and conducted an emergency landing. The pilot and two passengers escaped unhurt.

NOV. 24, 2006

A Cessna 210 plane landed on its belly in the intersection of Cheyenne Avenue and Clayton Street after clipping utility lines on its approach to North Las Vegas Airport. The pilot and six passengers walked away unharmed.

JULY 21, 2005

A twin-engine Aero Commander taking off to survey mountains for wildfires crashed at North Las Vegas Airport, injuring all three passengers, including two U.S. Forest Service workers.

MAY 5, 2005

A passenger with no flight training crash landed a Gulfstream I at North Las Vegas Airport after the pilot suffered a heart attack. Both passengers were hospitalized after the crash. The pilot died from the heart attack.

OCT. 30, 2004

Engine trouble forced a small plane to make an emergency landing on a street near the North Las Vegas Airport. The pilot and three passengers were not injured in the crash on Coran Lane, near Simmons Street and Lake Mead Boulevard.

DEC. 25, 2003

Six family members, including a Las Vegas couple and their two children, died when their Beech A-36 Bonanza crashed during takeoff at North Las Vegas Airport. The plane was over airport property when engine trouble sent it plummeting into a drainage ditch.

SEPT. 23, 2003

Two pilots were hurt when their planes collided on the runway at North Las Vegas Airport. One plane, a Piper Malibu PA-46, was taking off while the second plane, a Piper Cherokee Arrow PA-28, was landing. The aircraft crashed at the intersection of two runaways.

MAY 19, 2001

A pilot attempting an emergency landing at North Las Vegas Airport was killed when his single-engine airplane clipped a street light pole and crashed about one mile west of the airport. The Beechcraft Bonanza crashed in the intersection of Michael Way and Mossman Avenue, near Cheyenne Avenue.

APRIL 29, 2000

A Cessna 210 plummeted to the ground and burst into flames at North Las Vegas Airport during an attempted landing. Two people on board the plane were killed.

AUG. 20, 1999

A single-engine Mooney plane on approach to North Las Vegas Airport slammed into the front yard of a Las Vegas home near Cheyenne Avenue and Torrey Pines Drive.

Two people died in the ensuing inferno, but a third passenger survived thanks to neighbors who pulled him from the burning fuselage.