Plane crash

Saudi Arabia on Friday extended condolences to Brazil after a passenger plane crashed in Sao Paulo region, killing all 61 people on board. The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing sympathy to the relatives of…
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An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew crashed Friday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, the airline said. The aircraft, an ATR 72-500 operated by Voepass airline, was traveling from Cascavel in southern…
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Questions remained Thursday over the military plane crash that Russia said had killed dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers ahead of a planned prisoner exchange, with Moscow and Kyiv trading accusations at the UN Security Council. Russia…
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A Turkish AnadoluJet flight was aborted upon take-off at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after several passengers were sent photos of plane crashes on their phones. The Israeli Civil Aviation Authority said the plane was taxiing at the…
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US accident investigators have flown to China to help authorities there probe last month’s deadly crash of a Boeing jetliner. The National Transportation Safety Board said the team departed for China on Friday to participate in the Civil…
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The second “black box” has been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed 132 people last week, Chinese state media said Sunday. Searchers had been looking for the flight data recorder after finding the…
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A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka on Tuesday, local officials said. An An-26 plane with 22 passengers and 6 crew flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village…
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Philippine authorities ordered on Monday an investigation into the crash of an Air Force plane that overshot a runway killing 47 soldiers on board, three civilians on the ground and injuring dozens. Some passengers on the Lockheed C-130…
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A low-cost Indonesian Airlines plane crashed, Monday morning, off the coast of Indonesia, after taking off from the capital Jakarta, amid expectations that 189 people on board were killed. The Indonesian rescue services suggested that…
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