Officials of Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Friday night paid a condolence visit to the family of Flt.-Lt. Taiwo Asaniyi, pilot of the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 plane that crashed in Kaduna State. The crash killed the Chief of Army of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other officers. Asaniyi and three other crew members also […]
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The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has released the names of officers who lost their lives in the Sunday’s plane crash in Abuja. Recall that the Beechcraft Kingair B350i aircraft en route Minna in Niger State had crashed close to the runway of the Abuja airport. The jet crashed after suffering engine failure. NAF had confirmed […]
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A military aircraft with six persons have crash landed in Abuja. The six people onboard, two crew members and four passengers, were feared killed The aircraft, a NAF201 B350, was said to be Minna, Niger State bound when it developed engine problem around 10:39am. It was said to have crash landed at the final approach […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo escaped what could have ended as a plane crash in Lagos on Wednesday. According to NAN, the ex-president was among the 393 passengers who were on board an aircraft that found it difficult to land at Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos. The Ethiopian Airlines aircraft, ET-901, had departed the Bole […]
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A yet-to-be identified Nigerian was among the 157 dead victims of the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 Max that crashed this morning shortly after take-off in Addis Ababa. The plane billed for Nairobi had 32 Kenyans on board, the largest group of nationals in the ill-fated plane. There were 33 different nationalities on board with […]
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A Boeing 737 plane with 104 passengers on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport on Friday. Havana is the capital of the country. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties on the plane, which was destined for Holguin and operated by national airline Cubana, state-run TV reported. “It […]
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A pilot and two co-pilots, all three of them Libyan, were killed Sunday when their cargo plane crashed in southern Libya, a military source said. The plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Al-Sharara oil field, the source said on condition of anonymity. “It had arrived from Tripoli to bring supplies to the (oil) […]
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Officials said no fewer than 257 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A line of white body bags […]
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A Russian transport plane crashed on landing at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Syria, killing all 32 on board, the defence ministry said in a statement carried by RIA Novosti. There were 26 passengers and 6 crew, the ministry said. “The reason for the crash according to preliminary information could have been a technical fault,” the […]
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Iran found the wreckage of the crashed Aseman Airlines ATR-72 plane on Monday and received condolences from Chinese, Russian leaders and UN for the victims of the incident and their families. The deputy governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran said the wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed into the Dena mountain in […]
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