Poor maintenance is often a factor when skydiving planes crash like one did in Missouri on Sunday, and the National Transportation Safety Board has said in past investigations that weak oversight of the skydiving industry can allow problems to go unnoticed.

One person died and another was critically injured in a skydiving accident in Perris on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

One man is dead and another person is fighting to stay alive after a skydiving accident Thursday in Perris, California. Firefighters responded to reports of traumatic injury on the 600 block of East Ellis Avenue just before 2 p.

A plane carrying a pilot and 11 passengers on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed in a field and was engulfed in flames Sunday, killing all aboard, authorities said.