A chartered medical evacuation flight, on Sunday, crashed during takeoff in Manila, Philippines, killing all eight passengers on board. The plane carrying emergency medical supplies to Japan amid the Coronavirus outbreak crashed and exploded. According to the Manila International Airport Authority, the WestWind 24 aircraft was taking off from Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport, when […]
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Officials of the United States (US) have accused Iran of mistakenly shooting the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday, killing all the 176 people on board. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s airport. The incident occurred after Iran launched missiles that hit two air bases of US forces in Iraq. The attack […]
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More than 10 people were injured after an SSJ-100 passenger plane en route to the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk caught fire during an emergency landing at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russian media reported on Sunday. “According to our data, more than 10 victims needed medical care,” Tass news agency quoted a source […]
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The world’s largest aircraft, a carbon-composite plane, took its first flight on Saturday from California, U.S., over the Mojave Desert in California. The carbon-composite plane was by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, a company started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market. The white aeroplane, called Roc, nicknamed after […]
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Boeing has announced its decision to ground its entire fleet of 737 Max 8 aircraft days after a crash involving one of the planes killed 157 persons. The US company, in a statement on Wednesday, said the decision to suspend operations of all 371 of the aircraft in its possession follows consultations with US authorities. […]
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A Southwest Airline flying to Dallas, Texas, from Seattle had to turn around after crew realized someone had forgotten to unload a human heart. The captain said the heart should have been left in Seattle and taken to a hospital, according to Yahoo News UK. The life-critical cargo shipment was reportedly unloaded after the aircraft […]
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An American Airlines plane with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde on board, made an emergency landing in the Argentine airport on Sunday due to malfunction, local media reported. According to the Clarin newspaper, the plane took off for the U. S. at 8.55 p.m. local time (23.55 GMT) from Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza […]
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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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