…Precision Air confirmed the plane crash which had been blamed on bad weather. Tanzanian passenger plane that crashed on Sunday claimed 19 lives as of the time of filing this report while 24 survivors were rescued. This was confirmed by Precision Air in a statement issued shortly after the plane crash which had been blamed
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One person was confirmed dead and nine others missing after a small plane crashed along the coast of the US state of Washington on Sunday. According to the coast guard, rescue crews were searching for the missing nine. The Coast Guard said it received a report of the crash around 3:11 pm (2211 GMT) and dispatched helicopters
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Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, seized the reopening/inauguration of the rehabilitated runway of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on Sunday, to remember the victims of the November 1983 plane crash at the airport. Ugwuanyi unveiled a newly reconstructed and beautified airport roundabout with a monumental aircraft statue by the Enugu Capital Territory Development
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A chartered plane believed to be conveying coronavirus medical supplies has crashed during takeoff. The aircraft, bound for Haneda, Japan, crashed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing all the eight people on board, on Sunday. It had reportedly been chartered by the government and was carrying emergency supplies to the country as it
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Iran, which admitted on Saturday that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing 176 people, must “learn lessons” from the disaster, the chairman of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee said. “If decryption of the black boxes and the work of the investigation do not prove that the Iranian army did this intentionally, and
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A South African military transport aircraft with UN peacekeeping soldiers onboard on Thursday was severely damaged when it crash-landed in Eastern Congo, a UN spokesman reported. Matthias Gillman, a spokesman for the UN stabilisation mission in Congo said that the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules aircraft overshot the runway while landing in Goma and burst into
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US officials believe that Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all of the 176 people on board, US media reported Thursday. Newsweek, CBS and CNN quoted unnamed officials saying they are increasingly confident that Iranian air defense systems accidentally downed the aircraft, based on satellite, radar and electronic data. Also, US President Donald
Read moreBy: Osatohanmwen Patrick Speculations trail Iran’s stance and innocence in the crashed Ukrainian international airline flight PS752 over her refusal to handover the black box of the crashed flight that killed 176 people onboard, to countries capable of analyzing the black box. Following the technicality of the situation, the global aviation rule allows Iran
Read moreReport reaching Fox Channel has it that a Ukrainian airplane carrying about 180 people crashed after takeoff in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Wednesday, killing everyone on board, according to Iranian state TV and Ukrainian officials. Pir Hossein Kulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services agency, told state TV that all were killed, according
Read moreA plane carrying Sudanese judges and injured people crashed on Thursday in the Darfur region of Sudan, according to the Sudanese Red Crescent. The Antonov plane was travelling from the city of El Geneina, located in the west of Sudan, near the border with Chad, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The aircraft was transporting people
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