The plane fell on a residential area in California: there are fatalities

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 ...

Armenian pilot blamed for death of American basketball star Kobe Bryant

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 ...

In Indonesia, a passenger plane crashes: 56 people were on board

Sriwijaya Air's Boeing 737-500 crashed in Indonesia. Onboard there were about 56 passengers and crew members, including 10 children. The details were told by the Meduza edition. The plane disappeared from the radar and stopped responding to controllers almost immediately after takeoff, which took off at 14:36 ​​local time. ...

Fatalities in plane crashes rise in 2020 despite a decrease in the number of flights

Despite a 42% cut in flights globally, more people were killed in plane crashes in 2020 compared to 2019, writes The Guardian. Most of the statistics were the victims of the crash of a Ukrainian plane shot down by missiles in Iran in January. Dutch Consulting ...

A passenger plane in India broke in half on landing: there are casualties

An Air India Express plane with 191 passengers on board crashed while landing at the airport in Kozhikode in Kerala state in southern India. Writes about this BBC. The Boeing 737 left the runway and split in two, the FDA said ...

'We saw a flash and an explosion': Iranian air services immediately knew that a Ukrainian plane was shot down by a missile

The TSN.Tizhden building received sensational evidence from the intelligence services - a recording of conversations between the Tehran airport control tower and the co-pilot of an aircraft of the Iranian company Aseman Airlines. The pilot at the helm of the Iranian airliner saw both the missile launch and the explosion. This recording proves that the Iranians saw a missile with...

All America grieves: the famous basketball player and his daughter died in a plane crash

Former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles. His 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people on board died along with him, writes the BBC. The helicopter crashed in the hills near the city of Calabasas, the cause of the crash...

Fatal Mistake History: Accidentally Downed Passenger Airliners

A passenger Boeing 737 of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), operating on Wednesday, January 8, a flight from Tehran to Kyiv, crashed a few minutes after takeoff. The tragedy occurred shortly after Iran fired missiles at American bases in neighboring...

Iran rejects accusations that a Ukrainian plane was shot down by a rocket: how the investigation is going

The head of Iran's civil aviation organization, Ali Abedzadeh, rejected accusations that a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 passenger plane could have been shot down by an Iranian missile. The day before, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the cause of the plane crash was a hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. He writes about this...

'Russia is to blame': Ukraine has named its version of the plane crash in Iran

 On January 9, a Ukrainian official said the country is considering a Russian missile strike as one of several possible reasons for the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane that took off from Tehran International Airport early Wednesday morning, Fox News writes. “A missile strike, possibly a Tor missile system, is one of the main (theories) ...

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