In 1956 and again in 1958,
Thomas Fitzpatrick flew stolen aircraft from Teterboro and landed them along city streets in the
Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood. In June 1966, in Hasbrouck Heights, a two-engine
Piper Aztec going to Teterboro Airport crashed, striking a tree and narrowly missing homes on Burton Avenue near
U.S. Route 46 (US 46). The pilot sustained injuries including a skull fracture and was taken to Hackensack Hospital by ambulance. He was carrying film for Eastman Kodak. On September 23, 1981, a Ronson Aviation Bell 206B helicopter and a Seminole Air Charier Piper PA-34 airplane collided in flight over
East Rutherford, about south of Teterboro Airport. The airplane had a flight plan to Teterboro from
Syracuse, New York. The helicopter was inbound to Teterboro from Woodbridge, NJ. The two collided at an altitude of about . The helicopter fell into the
Meadowlands Sports Complex parking lot, and both persons aboard were killed. The airplane, with about of its left wing and its right engine missing, made a gear-up landing in a marsh about east of the collision point. The pilot was seriously injured, and the passenger received minor injuries. On December 9, 1999, a small plane crashed between two houses in neighboring Hasbrouck Heights, killing all four people aboard, injuring three people on the ground and setting a garage on fire. On March 9, 2002 a single-engine Cessna 210 with a flight plan to Montauk, NY, crashed shortly after takeoff about 2 p.m. killing the only occupant and pilot. Upon impact the plane skidded about before it burst into flames, narrowly missing cars on US 46 about away. On September 9, 2002, a Piper Saratoga carrying a Canadian family took off from Teterboro Airport and crashed into a housing development in Hunterdon County 10 minutes later. The parents were killed, and the two children were critically injured. The incident caused millions in damage. On February 2, 2005 at 7:18 a.m., a Bombardier Challenger CL-600-1A11, N370V, hurtled off a runway at Teterboro Airport, skidded across US 46 and slammed into a warehouse during the morning rush, injuring 20 people, 11 of them on the plane. The two pilots were seriously injured, as were two occupants in a vehicle. The cabin aide, eight passengers, and one person in the building received minor injuries. Five people remained hospitalized, one of them gravely injured. A 66-year-old Paterson man who was riding in a car the jet struck was on life support, authorities said. Later that year, Congress passed legislation authored by U.S. Senator
Frank Lautenberg that directed the
FAA to install
arrestor beds at all U.S. airports. On September 2, 2005 at 21:22 local time, a Cessna 177A, N30491, crashed in South Hackensack during an emergency landing at Teterboro airport. A Teterboro employee observed the plane descending toward runway 24, lost sight of it as it descended below the horizon, then saw two or three bright flashes. The pilot sustained fatal injuries and the passenger serious injuries. On October 11, 2006 a
Cirrus SR20 took off from Teterboro and
crashed in New York City at 2:42 pm local time. The aircraft struck the north side of an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; it caused a fire in two apartments on the 40th and 41st floors, which was extinguished within an hour. The aircraft was owned and piloted by
New York Yankees pitcher
Cory Lidle, who died in the accident along with his flight instructor. As a result of this accident the FAA established restrictions on flying up the East River. Two midair collisions have occurred over the Hudson River involving aircraft that departed from Teterboro, one in 1976, and
one in 2009. As a result of the later accident the FAA came up with new guidelines for pilots flying the Hudson River, including mandatory reporting points and separating slower helicopter traffic from faster fixed-wing traffic via assigned altitude blocks. On August 21, 2009, around 3:00 a.m., a Beechcraft Baron crashed while attempting to land. The pilot and passenger survived but sustained burns requiring the attention of
Saint Barnabas Medical Center's burn unit, the only one in the state of New Jersey. The plane was believed to have originated at Reading, PA, and was carrying blood samples for
Quest Diagnostics, which had a lab on property adjacent to Teterboro Airport. On December 20, 2011, a single-engine TBM700 crashed on
Interstate 287 near
Morristown after leaving Teterboro Airport headed for Georgia. Five people, including a family of four and one other passenger, were killed. On May 15, 2017 at about 3:30 p.m., a
Learjet 35 stalled and crashed about away while approaching Runway 1. The pilot and co-pilot were killed; no others were on board. It had departed Philadelphia International Airport shortly before. The
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) safety recommendations from this accident included a requirement for "operators to establish programs for flight crewmembers who have demonstrated performance deficiencies or experienced failures during training and administer additional oversight and training to address and correct performance deficiencies." == Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking ==