According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, there were 123 passengers and nine crew members.
Tokyo:Two American Marines were rescued from the ocean while another five remained missing after two US military jets collided mid-air during manoeuvres off the coast of Japan on Thursday, officials said. “The US Marine Corps confirms that two Marines have been found. One is in fair condition and the other is being transported to a […]
Ottawa:Two aircrafts collided mid-air over Ottawa‘s west end on Sunday, which led to one of them crashing in a nearby field, the police said. Police said one of the aircraft crashed into a field near McGee Side Road just east of the 417 in Carp in rural west Ottawa. The other aircraft was redirected to […]
New Delhi: Bhavye Suneja, a Delhi-based pilot working with Lion Air, was the Captain of the ill-fated Indonesian Boeing plane carrying 189 passengers, which crashed into the Java Sea on Monday shortly after taking off. Indonesian authorities said they have found no survivors. Based out of Mayur Vihar here, Suneja studied at Ahlcon public school […]
Washington: The airline employee who stole a plane on Friday in Seattle and crashed soon afterward did not have any links to terrorist organizations and was seeking to commit suicide, the FBI said on Saturday. The FBI said via Twitter that “the information gathered thus far does NOT suggest a terrorist threat”. The Pierce County […]
Havana: The toll from last Friday’s plane crash in Cuba has risen to 111 as one of the survivors succumbed to her injuries here, officials said. Grettel Landrove, 23, one of three survivors in last Friday’s crash of a Cubana de Aviacion passenger jet, died on Monday in the Calixto Garcia Hospital, where she had […]
Havana: More than 100 people were killed after a Cubana de Aviacion Boeing 737-200 crashed soon after takeoff from Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport, a media report said on Saturday. Three female passengers are in critical condition after surviving the crash. Flight DMJ 0972 heading from Cuba to Holguin was carrying 111 people, including 105 […]
Kathmandu: An aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines with 67 passengers and four members crash-landed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here today triggering fears of fatalities. TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur said the 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft veered off the runway while landing at 2.20 p.m. and crashed onto a ground near the airport, catching […]
The C-130 Hercules transport plane, carrying 96 soldiers and crew, crashed upon landing on Sunday on Jolo island in Sulu province.
Tehran: A passenger plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday killing all 66 people on board, authorities said. The ATR 72, a twin-engine turboprop operated by Aseman Airlines, crashed due to bad weather into the Dena Mountain near the town of Semirom, an official at the Iranian carrier confirmed to the media. The plane was […]
Berlin: At least four people were killed when a light aircraft and a medical helicopter crashed mid-air in Germany on Tuesday, police said. The two crashed over a rural area near the southwestern town of Philippsburg in the Karlsruhe district, Efe news agency reported. It is as yet unclear if the medical helicopter was carrying […]
Berlin: Three persons were killed in a small plane crash in Germany, the media reported. The accident on Thursday took place in Ravensburg, in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Xinhua news agency reported. The Cessna Citation Mustang Model 510 was on its way from the Frankfurt-Egelsbach airfield to Friedrichshafen, but went down in a forest […]
Sao Paulo: Three persons were killed when a small aircraft crashed into the backyard of a home in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, officials said. The Beechcraft plane ended up nose down next to the swimming pool behind the house in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, some 440 km (273 miles) from Sao Paulo […]
At least 29 people were killed and 17 others remain unaccounted for in the crash of a Philippine Air Force (PAF) C-130 Hercules transport plane in Sulu province, officers said.
A Philippine Air Force (PAF) plane with 92 people aboard crashed on Sunday while attempting to land on Jolo island in Sulu province, killing 17 persons andinjuring 40 others.