The twin-engine turboprop plane was flying from Cascavel in the southern state of Parana to Guarulhos Airport in Sao Paulo when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo on August 9. 62 people died in the disaster. As the investigation into what happened, new details about the victims emerge, writes...
On March 4, five Canadians died in a small plane crash in Nashville, Tennessee. The pilot told air traffic controllers that the plane was "too far" from the airport to make an emergency landing, CBC reported. Investigators in Tennessee have confirmed that five Russian-speaking Canadians died as a result of...
On July 29, four people were killed and two others were injured in a multiple plane crash near an air show in Wisconsin, People reports. The accidents occurred during EAA's annual AirVenture Oshkosh conference, which is held at Wittman Regional Airport. Two disasters in...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, May 17, that four children were found alive in the south of the country 17 days after the plane they were flying crashed in the dense jungle. The Reuters edition told in more detail. The children were rescued by the military,…
Six people have died after two World War II military aircraft collided mid-air and crashed at Dallas Executive Airport during an air show on November 12 afternoon, CNN reported. As a result, all on board were killed, according to ...
In Poland, a political scandal erupted around a journalistic investigation that showed that the parliamentary commission investigating the circumstances of the “Smolensk disaster” in 2010 could have withheld from the public some of the essential data about the crash of the presidential plane, the BBC reports. Journalists claim that the commission had at its disposal the results...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 crashed on a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, the BBC reported. According to these data, there were 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and nine crew members. Chinese...
There have already been seven major plane crashes in Russia in 2021, the BBC reports. The crash of an L-410 turboprop plane in Tatarstan was the seventh Russian plane crash since the beginning of the year, in which five or more people were killed. Two more disasters - Il-112V near Moscow and...
At least 2 people have died after a light aircraft crashed into a residential area in California, AP reports. On October 11, a small plane crashed in a densely populated suburb of San Diego, killing two people and injuring at least two others. The accident left large-scale ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that poor decision making by pilot Ara Zobayan was the likely cause of the helicopter crash that killed NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others in 2020. Writes about this ...