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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — At least six Americans were injured Tuesday when a plane crashed while landing at the Honduran capital’s international airport and split in two. The commercial jet from Austin, Texas left the runway and veered into a ditch, Carlos Cordero, deputy head of Honduras’s disaster relief agency Copeco told local media. Firefighters arrived at Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa and used foam to extinguish flames coming from the wreckage. Local businessman Pedro Atala […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba now has identified the remains of 50 of the 111 people killed in the country’s worst air disaster in decades. A Boeing 737 leased to national carrier Cubana de Aviacion crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s Jose Marti airport on Friday, with 113 passengers and crew aboard. Just two survivors remain — both Cuban woman who are fighting for their lives at Havana’s Calixto Garcia hospital. “I can […]
by Alexandre Grosbois and Moises Avila Agence France Presse HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba observed a weekend of national mourning for victims of its worst crash in nearly three decades that killed 110 passengers and crew. An investigation has been launched into Friday’s crash of the nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737-200 leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company. Three women pulled alive from the mangled wreckage and in hospital in critical […]
(Eagle News) – The Civil Aviation Aviation Authority of the Philippines are still investigating the plane crash that happened in Plaridel, Bulacan that killed 10 people. CAAP spokesperson Eric Apolonio said they are still awaiting reports of their investigators who went to the crash site in Barangay Lumang Bayan, Plaridel Bulacan. Two of the teams from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board and the Flight Standard Inspectorate Service of CAAP are still gathering evidences from the […]
Ni Nora Dominguez Eagle News Service BINALONAN, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Sugatan ang dalawa katao matapos mag-crash ang isang Cessna plane sa kalagitnaan ng maisan sa Binalonan, Pangasinan nitong Martes, Marso 13. Ayon sa Binalonan Police Station, ang mga sugatan sa insidente sa Barangay Linamansangan ay sina Captain Bruce Sinaking, piloto at flying master, residente ng Baguio City; at ang pilot student na nakilalang si Marcus Lim. Agad namang isinugod sa pagamutan sa lungsod ng […]
by Paavan MATHEMA Agence France Presse KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Forty-nine people were killed when a Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near Kathmandu airport on Monday, in the worst aviation disaster to hit Nepal in nearly three decades. Officials said there were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines turboprop plane from Dhaka when it crashed just east of the runway and skidded into a nearby football field. Rescuers cut apart the mangled […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday to offer his condolences after a deadly plane crash near Moscow, a White House official said. The call between the two leaders — who are at the center of an FBI investigation into Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US election — took place after a plane crashed minutes after takeoff from Domodedovo airport, killing all 71 people […]
by Anna Malpas with Thibault Marchand in Moscow Agence France Presse STEPANOVSKOYE, Russia (AFP) — Investigators will examine Monday numerous possible causes of one of Russia’s worst ever aviation accidents that saw a passenger plane carrying 71 people crash near Moscow minutes after take off, killing everyone on board. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it would consider explanations including human error, technical failure and weather conditions, as the country has experienced record snowfall in recent […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP)– A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed outside Moscow on Sunday after taking off from the capital’s Domodedovo airport, officials and local media said. The Antonov An-148 plane operated by the domestic Saratov Airlines was flying to Orsk, a city in the Urals, and crashed in the Ramensky district on the outskirts of Moscow. Russian news agencies reported 65 passengers and six crew were on board and all were feared dead. […]
PUNTA ISLITA, Costa Rica (AFP) — Strong winds were seen as a factor in the crash of a small plane in Costa Rica that killed all 10 US passengers on board and two local crew members, according to officials and witnesses. The accident, which occurred Sunday in the country’s northwestern Guanacaste region popular with tourists seeking pristine tropical beaches, killed all on board the small Cessna 208 Caravan owned and operated by domestic airline Nature […]
(Eagle News) — Tinatayang aabutin pa ng kalahating araw ngayong Biyernes, Nobyembre 10, ang pag-aakyat sa mga survivor ng bumagsak na Cessna plane sa Barangay Decoliat, Maria Aurora, Aurora. Ito ay dahil natigil kagabi ang paglalakbay ng tropa ng 56th Infantry Battalion ng Philippine Army na nagrescue sa dalawang survivor. Ayon sa pahayag ni Capt. Potpot Aragones, ng 56th IB ng Philippine Army, pansamantala nilang pinatigil ang paglalakbay kagabi dahil matarik ang bundok na kanilang […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Several people died aboard a light aircraft that smashed into a shopping center near the Australian city of Melbourne, the state premier said. “A number of people have died as a result of what is the worst civil aviation accident that our state has seen for 30 years,” Victoria premier Daniel Andrews said. The Beechcraft private charter veered just after take-off into the shopping center, which had yet to open, next to Essendon Fields airport, […]
