DOT approved Denver Air Connection to take over the contract. Service will be provided on the 50 seat Embraer E145. Statistics Accidents & Incidents On August 14, 2000, a Rockwell Sabreliner 75A crashed into a wooded area northeast of the airport. The flight was enroute from Brainerd-Crow Wing County Airport to Flight/Bishop airport. The aircraft reported an emergency during an enroute climb due to a dual engine failure caused by a lightning strike. The aircraft was vectored near a level 5 thunderstorm while it attempted to divert to Ironwood. It was later found that, even though they attempted to restart the engines, the pilots never called for the aircraft's checklists, nor did they discuss load shedding any of the electrical components of the aircraft. The pilots lost their navigation at 17,500 feet msl and 12 miles from the airport and eventually crashed. The probable cause was found to be the pilots' continued flight into known adverse weather, their failure to turn on continuous ignition in turbulence, and the pilots' failure to follow the proper procedures for an inflight engine restart. The two pilots received fatal injuries, and two additional passengers onboard received serious injuries. On April 23, 2003, a Maule M-5-210C ground looped and impacted terrain while attempting to land on Runway 27 at IWD. The pilot reported that the tail wheel "shimmied" when he attempted a three-point landing on touchdown, so he pushed forward on the yoke to lift the tail and then subsequently pulled back on the yoke. The pilot noticed he became unaligned with the runway and tried adding full power to go around, but he did not have enough airspeed to lift off before running off the side of the runway. The aircraft impacted a drainage ditch south of the runway. The probable cause of the accident was the pilot's inadvertent ground loop on the runway. The pilot and passenger were uninjured. On December 28, 2004, a twin-engine Piper crashed while trying to land at Ironwood. Visibility was reportedly good. The pilot, his wife, and their three daughters were killed. On June 2, 2017 a single-engine aircraft practicing landings at the airport narrowly avoided striking a fawn as it ran across the runway. The pilot veered to avoid the deer and damaged a wheel assembly on the plane. There were no injuries. On August 3, 2019, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee originating from IWD crashed on route