Cases involving individuals who have been injured in crashes and collisions involving commercial airlines and private airplanes. An aviation Accident is an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure and/or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.
Machias is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 2,482 at the 2000 census. The Town of Machias is an interior town in the northeast quadrant of the county. It is northeast of Salamanca.