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/ 29 October 2008
Two men were killed on Wednesday when their two-seater aircraft crashed near Hekpoort, north-west of Krugersdorp, Gauteng police said.
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/ 24 October 2008
Two people were killed when their light aircraft crashed near Poortjie in Orange Farm on Friday morning, police said.
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/ 21 October 2008
Six people were killed when an aircraft crashed near Germiston shortly after taking off from the Rand Airport, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
A passenger plane crashed on landing at a remote airfield in Nepal’s Everest region Wednesday, killing 18 people most of whom were German tourists.
Up to 40 passengers and crew were injured when a Qantas jetliner suddenly changed altitude on Tuesday, the airline said.
The investigation into the plane crash of Samora Machel should be re-opened, says former apartheid-era foreign affairs minister Pik Botha.
Nine people, including four children, have been confirmed killed in a light aircraft crash in Barberton, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.
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/ 22 September 2008
A group of South Africans who were killed in a plane crash in the Mozambican city of Beira were in the country to identify business opportunities.
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/ 18 September 2008
The Spanair MD-82 jetliner that crashed in Madrid on August 20 was started by the co-pilot, press reports said on Thursday.
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/ 17 September 2008
Airline passengers in Germany forced their plane to be grounded by petitioning the pilot after two aborted take-off attempts.
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/ 14 September 2008
A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board, officials said.
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/ 4 September 2008
SA consular officials are trying to verify the identity of a 23-year-old pilot killed in the DRC, with a view to returning his remains to SA.
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/ 2 September 2008
A humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew that was reported missing in eastern DRC has crashed into a mountain, a UN official said.
About 70 people died on Sunday when a Kyrgyz airliner crashed outside Bishkek, capital of the tiny former Soviet Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan.
Messages of support and sympathy flooded into Spain after the country’s worst air accident in decades killed 153 people on Wednesday.
A Spanish tourist jet carrying more than 160 people skidded off a Madrid airport runway and broke up in flames on Wednesday.
A Qantas flight en route to Australia made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday, and authorities discovered a big hole in its fuselage.
A Sudanese airliner coming from Amman and Damascus burst into flames after landing in Khartoum on Tuesday night, killing at least 33.
A Sudanese airliner burst into flames after landing in Khartoum overnight in bad weather, killing at least 28 of the 217 people on board, officials said on Wednesday.