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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...
Bangladeshi flight with 408 passengers makes emergency landing in India
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight has made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The flight was heading to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from Dhaka. The flight, which had more than 400 passengers on board, made the emergency landing due to a...
All aboard survive after airplane flips in Toronto
All 80 people on board a Delta Air Lines flight survived when the jet flipped onto its roof while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday, reports AP. The flight, arriving from Minneapolis with 76 passengers and four crew members, was attempting to land on a dry runway amidst snow and...
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...
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...
Alaska plane crash kills 10
A small commuter plane bound for Nome, Alaska of US, crashed on sea ice, killing all 10 people aboard, authorities confirmed on Friday. The incident is among the states deadliest aviation disasters in the past 25 years, reports UNB. Rescuers located the wreckage southeast of Nome after a...
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...
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...
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...
Duck DNA found in both engines of Jeju Air plane : report
Both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month contained duck remains, according to a preliminary report on Monday, with authorities still trying to determine what caused the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil. The six-page report released by South Korean authorities a month...
Truth behind the 'once in 396 billion years' planetary alignment hype
Have you seen the once in 396 billion years planetary alignment trending on social media for January 25? Dont believe the hype. Heres the real storyand why you dont need to wait for something extraordinary. Four planets are visible to the naked eye this month, and next month, for a brief time,...
No bomb or bomb-like object found on Biman flight
The Bomb Disposal Unit of Bangladesh Police has conducted a thorough examination of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka from Rome following a bomb threat. However, no bomb or bomb-like object was found on the plane. This information...
US warplanes target Yemen’s Sana’a
American warplanes have conducted multiple airstrikes against targets north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after Yemens military claimed responsibility for a retaliatory operation on the USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea, Press TV reported. Yemens al-Masirah television channel reported that four...
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...
US, UK warplanes launch fresh attacks on Yemen
The US and the UK have carried out fresh aerial assaults on Yemen as the Arab country continues its retaliatory operations against Israel. Yemens al-Masirah television channel reported that Thursdays strikes targeted the districts of Jarban, al-Luhayyah, and Harf Sufyan, situated in Sanaa,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
28 dead as plane catches fire after veering off runway in South Korea
A plane burst into flames after veering off a runway at an airport in South Korea, killing at least 28 people on board, emergency officials said, reports AP. The fire engulfed the aircraft carrying 181 people when it skidded off the runway just after landing and struck a fence. The emergency...
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...
Azerbaijan plane carrying 70 people crashes in Kazakhstan with near 60 feared dead
An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 67 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 14 people had survived. Unverified video of the crash showed the plane, which was operated by...
Israeli warplanes raid ‘civilian facilities’ across Yemen
Israeli warplanes have conducted fresh aerial assaults on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa and the strategic western province of Hudaydah, killing and injuring several people, Press TV reported. Yemens al-Masirah television channel reported on Thursday that the airstrikes targeted the Haziz and...