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Philippine fighter jet crashes, killing two pilots during anti-guerrilla mission
Rescuers found the wreckage of a Philippine fighter jet and the bodies of its two pilots on Wednesday in a mountainous region in the countrys south where they had been deployed on a nighttime mission to fight communist guerrillas, military officials said. The FA-50 jet lost communication during...

Military plane crash in Sudan kills 46
At least 46 people including women and children were killed in a military plane crash in the city of Omdurman, Sudan, reports AP. Officials confirmed the deaths from the plane crash that took place on Tuesday to the media on Wednesday. According to the media report, this is one of the...

Plane overturns at Toronto airport, 18 injured
A Delta Air Lines regional jet flipped upside down upon landing at Canadas Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday amid windy weather following a snowstorm, injuring 18 of the 80 people on board, officials said. Three people on the flight that originated at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport...

Five killed, 10 hurt in Feni road crash
Five people were killed and 10 injured in a collision between a covered van and a pickup van on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highways Hafezia area of Feni on Monday evening. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Confirming the matter, Bogdadia police outpost in-charge Mizanur...

Taiwan’s new advanced jet trainer crashes after engine failure; pilot ejects safely
A Taiwan air force AT-5 Brave Eagle advanced jet trainer crashed into the sea on Saturday after suffering a dual-engine failure, the military confirmed. The pilot successfully ejected and was rescued, reads a Bangkok Post report. This marks the first major incident involving the domestically...

Plane crash in Sao Paulo kills two on busy road
Two people died and six others were injured when a small plane crashed into a bus on a busy Sao Paulo avenue in Brazil on Friday morning, the local fire department said. The two bodies were found charred in the fuselage of the Beech F90 King Air aircraft that took off from Sao Paulo bound for...

4 killed as aircraft crashes in Philippines
A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four on board, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Thursday. The victims included one U.S. military service member and three defense...

Washington plane crash: All 67 bodies recovered from Potomac River
Crews have recovered all 67 victims from the Potomac River collision between an American Airlines CRJ700 jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter. The focus now shifts to clearing the wreckage and investigating the cause of the accident, which remains unexplained. Parts of the jets fuselage and...

5 killed in Sylhet road crash
Five people, including a child, were killed as a truck crashed into a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Unishmile in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet district on Sunday. Four of the deceased were identified as Sohel, 40, Shamima, 40, Ety Begum, 35, and Ayan, 7, while the identity of another...

At least seven people dead in Philadelphia plane crash
At least seven people, including a Mexican child patient, died when a medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia on Friday. The victims also included five other Mexican nationals aboard the plane and one person on the ground, Mexicos president and Philadelphias mayor said on Saturday. Philadelphia...

Plane with child, 5 others crashes in US, setting homes ablaze
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff on Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Rescuers had not confirmed any survivors after all these hours. All six people...

Black boxes found as officials examine staffing shortage in DC plane crash
The black boxes for a commercial flight that crashed into a military helicopter in Washington DC have been located, as questions mount about staffing and other close calls at the airport where the plane was landing. Normally two people manage air traffic control for helicopters and airplanes...

US air disaster: All 67 people dead
A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. President Donald Trump on Thursday told a White House news conference that no one survived. We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,...

3 motorbike riders killed in Gopalganj road crash
A motorcyclist and his two pillions were killed when a vehicle hit their bike on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Hironnokandi in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Hridoy Mridha, 18, son of Monir Mridha, Bishal Nag, 16, a student of Kashiani Technical...

Plane crash in Kenya kills 3 on ground
A light aircraft crash-landed in Kenya s coastal Malindi County on Friday, killing three people on the ground, a local police official said. The three fatalities included a motorcycle taxi driver who was killed when the plane burst into flames on impact in the town of Kwachocha along the...

Jeju Air jet black boxes stopped recording 4 minutes before crash: Ministry
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on December 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Koreas Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday. Authorities investigating the disaster that killed...

How to survive a ‘survivable’ plane crash
In 2015, TIME Magazine reporters wrote that they had combed through the records of all US plane crashes with both fatalities and survivors from 1985 to 2000, and found in a meta-analysis that seats in the back third of the aircraft had a 32% fatality rate overall, compared with 38% in the front...

Brazilian investigators join forces to extract data from crashed Azerbaijani Airliner’s black box
A team of Brazilian air force investigators is collaborating with experts from three other countries to analyze data extracted from the black box of an Azerbaijani airliner that tragically crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan has claimed the aircraft was...

How 2 crew members in deadly S. Korea plane crash survived
Heartbreaking scenes unfolded at South Koreas Muan International Airport on Sunday after a Jeju Air flight crashed on the runway, killing 179 out of 181 people onboard. Only two people - flight attendants - survived the deadly crash because they were seated at the rear tail section of the...

S. Korea starts releasing Jeju Air crash victims to families
South Korean authorities began releasing the bodies of plane crash victims to families on Tuesday, as investigators raced to determine why the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash landed and burst into flames. US investigators, including from Boeing, arrived at the crash site in southwestern Muan,...

2 dead as light aircraft crashes off UAE coast
A light aircraft crashed Sunday off thecoast of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the UAEs seven emirates, killing two people,the Emirati aviation authority said. A light aircraft operated by the Jazirah Aviation Club crashed into the sea,claiming the lives of both the pilot and co-pilot, said the General...

Azerbaijan urges Russia to accept blame for plane crash
Azerbaijans President Ilham Aliyev has called on Russia to accept blame for a plane crash on Christmas Day that killed 38 people. The plane is thought to have come under fire from Russian air defence systems as it tried to land in Chechnya before being diverted to Kazakhstan, where it crashed,...

Bird strike, adverse weather likely caused fatal S. Korea plane crash
A bird strike and adverse weather likely caused a fatal Jeju Air crash in South Korea, the local fire chief said Sunday, as video showed the plane being engulfed in flames on landing, reports BSS. The cause of the accident is presumed to be a bird strike combined with adverse weather conditions....

Airline Jeju Air apologises for crash
The airline Jeju Air has just issued an apology. We at Jeju Air lower our head in apology to everyone who were harmed in this incident at the Muan Airport, says the statement, which has been translated into English. We will do all we can to respond to the incident. We are sorry for the...

South Korea plane crash: Only 2 survive among 181
At least 151 people are confirmed dead after the Jeju Air plane, carrying 181 people, has crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea. Of those, 71 are identified as male and 71 female. The sex of 9 people who have died is yet to be confirmed. Two flight crew were rescued from the...

Bus driver held over deadly Mawa expressway crash
RAB personnel on Saturday arrested the driver of the bus that a day earlier killed six people in an accident at the Dhaleshwari toll plaza of Dhaka-Mawa expressway. RAB media wing chief Lieutenant Colonel Munim Ferdous said that the driver Md Nuruddin was arrested from Nayaranganjs Siddhirganj...

Survivors on Azerbaijani plane say they heard bangs before it went down
Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau...

Kazakhstan says at least 28 survived in Azerbaijan Airlines’ plane crash
An Azerbaijani airliner has crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau with Kazakhstans Emergency Ministry now saying that at least 28 people survived the crash, which could mean that over 30 people are likely dead. Four bodies have been recovered till now, reports AP. The ministry confirmed in a...