NEW YORK, United States (AFP)– The FBI is investigating an “intentional” crash of a small plane in Connecticut that killed a Jordanian student and injured an American flight instructor, officials and US media said Wednesday. The plane exploded in a fireball on Tuesday in East Hartford, about 120 miles (192 kilometers) northeast of New York. The flight instructor, who survived the crash, told investigators it was not an accident, The New York Times reported. The dead person […]
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Mozambique debris ‘almost certainly’ from Malaysia plane, Australia says
Sydney, Australia (AFP)—Two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are “almost certainly from MH370,” Australia and Malaysia said Thursday, after technical analysis provided fresh clues to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) aircraft. Until the latest discoveries, only a wing part recovered from a beach on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, which lies east of Mozambique, had been confirmed as coming from the plane that disappeared two years ago. “The analysis […]
Plane crashes in Russia, all 61 people on board killed
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russian officials said on Saturday that all 61 people on board a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport. Russia’s emergencies ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, crashed at 03:50 (0030 GMT) at the airport in Rostov-on-Don. Officials said there were 55 passengers and six crew on board the […]
Four feared dead in Myanmar military plane crash: officials
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — At least four Myanmar military personnel were feared dead after a small air force propeller plane crashed shortly after take off in the capital Naypyidaw Wednesday, official sources said. The Beechcraft passenger plane, which was carrying five crew members and believed to be on a routine patrol, went down in agricultural land near the airport. Hundreds of people gathered in the area as officials raced to extinguish the fire and sift […]
Small plane crashes into front yard of LA area home
A single-engine plane crashes into the back yard of a Los Angeles area home and the pilot is taken to hospital. A small single-engine plane crashed into the back yard of a home in the city of Compton, south of Los Angeles, on Wednesday afternoon (October 7), the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The male pilot was alone in the plane and was taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries, a fire […]
Eleven Colombian military personnel killed in plane crash
(Reuters) — Eleven Colombian military personnel were killed on Friday (July 31) when their transport plane suffered motor failure and crashed in the northern province of Cesar, killing all on board, according to a statement from the Air Force. The burned hulk of the plane was found near the town of Codazzi, about 600 kilometres (372 miles) northeast of Bogota near the border with Venezuela. My deepest sympathy and solidarity with this news which saddens […]
Indonesia military plane crash kills at least 30
(REUTERS) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a hotel and residential area in the northern Sumatra city of Medan on Tuesday (June 30), killing at least 30 people, a national search and rescue agency official said. Military spokesman Fuad Basya said that 12 personnel, including the pilot, had been aboard the C-130 Hercules. The bodies of five of them had been found. Local television showed a neighbourhood of houses and hotels in flames […]
Harrison Ford suffers injuries as plane crash
Hollywood actor Harrison Ford suffered injuries when the single plane that he is piloting crashed in a golf course in California.
At least 11 dead as Taiwan plane cartwheels into river on take-off
BY FAITH HUNG AND MICHAEL GOLD Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways plane which crash landed in a river in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. CREDIT: REUTERS/PICHI CHUANG (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed and up to 19 were missing after a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board crashed into a river shortly after taking off from a downtown Taipei airport on Wednesday, officials […]
Oil CEO dies in a plane crash
At least 4 people were killed when a plane collided with a snow-clearing machine in Moscow, including the CEO of France’s oil giant, Total.
Eight killed in plane crash in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:24am EDT (Reuters) – A Hawker 800 jet crashed in northern Mexico late on Saturday, killing all eight people on board, the government of the state of Coahuila said. The plane came down in an industrial estate in the municipality of Ramos Arizpe, just north of state capital Saltillo, the Coahuila attorney general’s office said in a statement. According to preliminary findings, the jet departed from the Mexican Caribbean […]
Malaysia says jet crashed in sea; China wants evidence
(Reuters) – Malaysia said on Monday that a missing jetliner had crashed into the Indian Ocean, an announcement that was greeted with hysteria by Chinese relatives of those on board and a demand by China that Kuala Lumpur share all the evidence it had on the incident. Citing groundbreaking satellite-data analysis by the British company Inmarsat, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished more than a fortnight ago while flying to […]
