A hiker's misplaced phone generated false crash alerts for Mount Pisgah and Westmore, officials said.
The alerts were dismissed after investigation.
Meanwhile, separate real crashes occurred.
A bright crash in Candler County left at least one dead.
A pilot was killed when his plane crashed near Piseco Airport in the Adirondacks.
Another crash in Hamilton County was connected to a pilot later identified.
In the Bahamas, a heartbreaking small plane crash took two members of a music group.