After landing on the island of Veno in Chuuk, Micronesia, the Boeing 737-800 rolled out to sea. Air Niugini flight PX73 carried 36 passengers and 11 crew members. The liner took off from Tokyo towards Papua New Guinea ...
At least two people were killed and two injured in the United States after a plane crashed in Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday. The injured passengers are in hospital in serious condition. Aircraft Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50 (“Dassault Breguet Falcon 50”)…
Are crash survivors afraid to fly, are they celebrating their second birthday, and did they have a premonition of trouble before boarding the plane, Life.ru tells. “I handed over my ticket”, “I didn’t make it on time for the flight”, “I had a disturbing dream”... After the crash of passenger liners, as a rule, it pops up...
On May 18, a passenger Boeing 737 crashed in Cuba - almost immediately after taking off from Havana Airport. He made a domestic flight to the city of Holguin, located 670 kilometers from the capital. The plane managed to fly 20 kilometers from the airport, after which the pilots began to make a U-turn, probably intending to return to the airport, but they did not have time: the liner fell on a sown field, writes ...
At Seattle Airport, a ground worker hijacked an empty Bombardier airliner, taking off without the permission of the air traffic controllers. The plane stayed in the air for more than an hour, and then crashed on one of the nearby islands. The hijacker, performing strange tricks, told the dispatcher that he had mastered the control of the liner thanks to video games. ...
According to the new official version, the anti-aircraft missile system arrived at the scene of the tragedy from the Kursk region. The Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which shot down the Malaysian Boeing MH-17, belonged to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Defense Ministry from the village of Marshal Zhukov, Kursk region. This was announced by representatives of the International Investigative Group investigating the crash ...
A passenger plane crashed in Cuba. There were 104 people on board, according to the BBC, citing local media. Over a hundred people died. At the same time, there are survivors of the disaster, writes RBC with reference to the Associated Press. The agency cites an unnamed…
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed in Syria while landing at the Khmeimim base, killing 32 people. The Ministry of Defense considers technical problems to be the preliminary cause of the disaster, writes the Air Force. According to the department, the plane did not reach the runway of the Khmeimim airfield ...
An Iranian Aseman Airlines ATR 72-500 passenger plane crashed in the mountains of central Iran; According to preliminary data, all 66 people on board were killed. The airliner was flying on the route Tehran - Yasuj, writes the BBC. The plane crashed on Mount Dena...
The pilots of the An-148 crashed near Moscow saw different speed readings on their displays and argued until the plane hit the ground. This is evidenced by the data of speech recorders, which were deciphered by the investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia, reports Kommersant. Sources of the publication report that the records ...