Black boxes found as officials examine staffing shortage in DC plane crash
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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...

Five killed in Costa Rica plane crash
Five killed in Costa Rica plane crash

Five passengers of a small plane were died as the plane carrying them crashed southeast ofCosta Ricascapital San Jose on Monday. Only a 31-year-old woman has survived the crush of the plane carrying a total of six people; however shes in a critical condition, according to DW. The aircraft a...