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About 100 people had to be evacuated after the plane struck at least one home and jet fuel caught fire throughout the neighborhood. The Federal Aviation Administration said six people were aboard the plane. It wasn't clear how many died, although music agency Sound Talent Group said its co-founder and two other employees died in the crash.

Many people are concerned about aviation safety after all the aircraft collisions and near-misses.

Disasters have ranged from the that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C., in January to an airliner while taxiing at the Seattle airport. In March, an American Airlines plane , sending 12 people to the hospital. A sightseeing into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey last month, killing six people.

Federal officials have tried to reassure travelers that flying is the safest mode of transportation, and statistics support that. But the cascade of headlines about all the things that have gone wrong is drawing increasing attention.

Here is a look at some of the recent tragedies and mishaps:

Recent fatal crashes

— The that crashed on April 10 departed a downtown heliport. The flight lasted less than 18 minutes. Radar data shows the helicopter flew north along the Manhattan skyline, then south toward the Statue of Liberty. The victims in included a who was of one of their children.

— Three people were killed and one was injured when a in Boca Raton, Florida, near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks.

— Two small planes collided midair near an Arizona airport in mid-February, who were on one of the aircraft. Following the collision, one plane landed uneventfully, but the other hit the ground near a runway and caught fire. The crash happened at Marana Regional Airport near Tucson.

— A small commuter plane in early February, killing all 10 people on board. The crash was in the state in 25 years. that the plane rapidly lost elevation and speed. The U.S. Coast Guard was unaware of any distress signals from the aircraft.

— A medical transport plane that had just taken off in late January, killing all six people on board and one person on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board said its cockpit voice recorder likely hadn't been functioning for years. The crew made no distress calls to air traffic control.

— The collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter killed everyone aboard both aircraft in late January. It was the since Nov. 12, 2001, when a jet slammed into a New York City neighborhood just after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground.

— A jetliner operated by Jeju Air skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and in late December in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people aboard were killed in one of that country’s worst aviation disasters.

Incidents with injuries

— The American Airlines plane that caught fire at Denver International Airport in March had been diverted there because the crew reported engine vibrations. While taxiing to the gate, an engine caught fire, so passengers could evacuate quickly. The people taken to hospitals had minor injuries.

— A single-engine plane carrying five people that same month in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone on board survived. Three people were taken to an area burn center.

— A Delta Air Lines jet while landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in February. All 80 people on board survived, but some people received minor injuries. Witnesses and video from the scene so hard that its right wing was sheared off. Investigators said when trying to determine the cause, they would consider the weather conditions and the possibility of human error.

Close calls

— Earlier this month, two commercial planes had to at Reagan National Airport near Washington because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter flying near the Pentagon. The Army all its helicopter flights in the area after this incident. It was a Black Hawk priority air transport from the same unit known as the PAT25 that collided with the passenger jet in midair in January.

— In April, on the same day as the fatal New York helicopter crash, a wing tip of an American Airlines plane from the same airline on a taxiway of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. There were no reported injuries. Multiple members of Congress were aboard one of the flights.

— A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport in March after a bird strike that could be seen in the morning sky. The plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport. There were no reported injuries.

— Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight about to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport were forced to climb back into the sky crossing the runway in late February. Video showed the plane approaching the runway before it abruptly pulled up as a business jet taxied onto the runway without authorization, federal officials said.

— In early February, a Japan Airlines plane was taxiing on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport of a parked Delta plane. There were no injuries reported.

— In early January, passengers panicked when a man aboard a JetBlue plane taxiing for takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport over a wing, triggering an emergency slide to inflate. Other passengers quickly restrained the man and the plane didn't take off.