カテゴリー: Plane crashes
Foreign nationals from Australia, France, Ireland and India among the passengers onboardAt least 68 people were confirmed dead and hope faded for any survivors after a plane with 72 onboard crashed in Nepal, the Himalayan country’s deadliest aviation d…
The family of the veteran pilot who lost his life in the May crash – along with everyone else on board – joins those calling for updated tech in aircraft“He used to say, ‘24 hours [in a day] is not enough for me!’”Bibhuti Ghimire’s voice breaks as she …
WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpitA China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone…
Human remains found at the remote crash site as work continues to discover why the China Eastern Boeing 737 crashed, killing 132 peopleThe cockpit voice recorder from a plane which crashed into a Chinese mountainside with 132 people onboard is being an…
Officials hope retrieval of one of two onboard flight recorders will shed light on crash in mountainous area of GuangxiChinese recovery crews have found one of the two black box flight recorders from the China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed on Monda…
State media report no survivors after a Boeing 737-800 flight crashed into mountainous terrain with 132 on boardAbout an hour into its journey from Kunming to Gaungzhou, flight MU5735 fell out of the air. After cruising at an altitude of 29,100ft, it s…
Relatives, friends and colleagues of passengers on a China Eastern Airlines flight that crashed into a mountain have waited for news at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. Flight MU5735, with 132 people on board, had been scheduled to arr…
The two countries will allege Russia breached international aviation law for its role in 2014 downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight over UkraineAustralia and the Netherlands have launched legal proceedings against Russia through the International Civ…
Fears that subs from China, which claims the area, could be first to reach wreckage that plunged from deck of aircraft carrierThe US navy is racing to salvage an F-35C fighter jet from the bottom of the South China Sea after it crashed on an aircraft c…
At least 45 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the south of the country, officials have said. Ninety-two people, most of them recent …
The passenger death toll from the crash was 47, officials said, and three civilians on the ground were also killed All 96 passengers on the Philippine air force plane that crashed on Sunday have been accounted for, military chief Cirilito Sobejana has …
Automatic throttle may have caused Sriwijaya Air jet pilots to lose control of Boeing 737-500A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, leading to the Boeing 737-500’s plunge into the Java Sea…
The lawsuit filed by the family of three victims alleges the Boeing 737-500 aircraft was defective in one or more waysAn Indonesian family whose relatives died onboard the Sriwijaya Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea have filed legal action agai…
Device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 to nosedive into the ocean in heavy rain Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor have recovered the flight data recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed in…
As divers search for black boxes in Java Sea, families recall last-minute messagesRafik Yusuf Alaydrus’s wife, Panca Widia Nursanti, messaged him on WhatsApp as she sat on board the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 flight. The weather in Jakarta was bad, she said….