A single-engine plane carrying 12 people crashed moments after takeoff from Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri on June 14, 2026, killing everyone on board and marking the deadliest skydiving plane accident in over two decades. The tragedy has reignited a long-standing debate about the Federal Aviation Administration’s lax (FAA) oversight of skydiving operations, a gap that regulators have been warned about for years but have done little to fix.
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