It’s been a tragic week for aviation as two military jets, a skydiving plane and a charter jet crashed over the course of just four days.

Eleven skydivers and the pilot were killed in a plane crash in Missouri shortly after takeoff on Sunday.

The men who died Wednesday in an airplane crash into the Columbia River in the Tri-Cities were friends from Sonoma, Calif., flying to an event in Idaho. The pilot was Randy J. Peterson, 64, and his passenger was Eric Wayne Houston, 50, said Franklin County Coroner Curtis McGary.

A single-engine airplane crash landed in a Ventura County riverbed, east of the Santa Paula airport Saturday. The pilot was the only person aboard the plane when it made the emergency landing around 1 p.

An emergency response was launched to rescue people on board the plane.

A microlight aircraft ditched into Cardigan Bay off the Welsh coast on Friday evening, with two occupants found sitting on the wing before being rescued by lifeboat

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