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All 65 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

All 65 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

All 65 passengers and crew were feared dead in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. A spokesman for Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines had told state television everyone was killed, but the airline then issued a statement saying it could not […]

February 18, 2018 | By | Reply More
Passenger plane crash lands at Wau airport leaving 44 people dead

Passenger plane crash lands at Wau airport leaving 44 people dead

As many as 44 people are feared dead after a plane crash landed and split into pieces at an airport in South Sudan. Passengers were pulled from the burning wreckage after the plane belonging to South Supreme Airlines crashed at the north-eastern town of Wau on Monday. Photos showed the scorched pieces of the plane […]

March 21, 2017 | By | Reply More
Plane taking Brazilian soccer to cup final in Colombia crashes, 71 dead

Plane taking Brazilian soccer to cup final in Colombia crashes, 71 dead

A plane taking Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to a South American cup final crashed in Colombia after reporting an electrical fault, killing 71 people, including most of the team and accompanying journalists. The plane slammed into a mountainside near Medellin on Monday night as the team flew to face Atletico Nacional for the Copa Sudamericana, […]

November 30, 2016 | By | Reply More
Emirates passenger jet catches fire in Dubai, Firefighter killed

Emirates passenger jet catches fire in Dubai, Firefighter killed

Aug  03, – The exact circumstances of the accident involving a Boeing 777 flying from India with 300 people on board were not immediately clear. Hundreds of passengers fled an Emirates airliner that crash-landed and caught fire in Dubai Wednesday, resulting in the death of a firefighter and a four-hour shutdown of the busy airport […]

August 3, 2016 | By | Reply More
Myanmar military plane crash kills 4

Myanmar military plane crash kills 4

Feb 10, – An Information Ministry statement identified the aircraft, which crashed in a rice field about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the airport, as a Beech 1900, a 19-passenger twin-engine turboprop no longer in production. Photos of the crashed plane showed that most of its fuselage had burned up. Four Myanmar military personnel were […]

February 10, 2016 | By | Reply More
U.N. agency to launch plan for warning airlines of risks in conflict zones

U.N. agency to launch plan for warning airlines of risks in conflict zones

Aug 27, – The plans were announced at the conclusion of a two-day meeting by the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) special task force on flights in conflict zones, which has been given the complex task of addressing risks to airliners in conflict zones. The United Nations’ civil aviation body will launch two pilot projects […]

August 27, 2014 | By | Reply More
Russian investigators seek clues on plane crash

Russian investigators seek clues on plane crash

Nov 18, – The plane belonging to the Tatarstan Airlines crashed Sunday while trying to land at its home port in the Russian city of Kazan, the capital of the oil-rich province of Tatarstan. The son of the provincial governor was among the victims. Russian investigators are combing through the charred fragments of a Boeing […]

November 18, 2013 | By | Reply More
Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Oct 19, – A plane carrying parachutists for a skydiving trip crashed in southern Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard, officials said. Minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield near the city of Namur, witnesses saw part of a wing break off, sending the plane into a spiraling nosedive and […]

October 19, 2013 | By | Reply More
Bodies recovered in Mekong after Laos plane crash

Bodies recovered in Mekong after Laos plane crash

Oct 17, – Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said search teams had recovered the bodies of 15 crash victims by the time their operations ended Thursday because of the strong current and darkness. He said they were unable to immediately identify them or their nationalities. Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy […]

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