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Plane Crashes

Ethiopian Airlines boss says Boeing MAX jet ‘reliable’
Top Six
/ 21 July 2022

Ethiopian Airlines boss says Boeing MAX jet ‘reliable’

The aircraft was grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes, but Ethiopian Airlines reintroduced it to the air in February

By Agence France Presse
Two arrested in UK over online image of Sala’s body
Article
/ 30 April 2019

Two arrested in UK over online image of Sala’s body

The photo claims to show the post-mortem examination of Sala’s body in Dorset, southwest England, which was carried out on February 7

By Agency
Cardiff striker Sala ‘concerned about plane’ in final audio message
Article
/ 23 January 2019

Cardiff striker Sala ‘concerned about plane’ in final audio message

Police on the British island of Guernsey resumed the search on Wednesday for a missing plane carrying Premier League player Emiliano Sala

By Frederic Happe
Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 189 passengers, crew
Article
/ 29 October 2018

Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 189 passengers, crew

The jet vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the ocean

By Staff Reporter
Two floating objects could be Malaysia Airlines wreck
Article
/ 20 March 2014

Two floating objects could be Malaysia Airlines wreck

Two objects possibly related to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been sighted in the southern Indian Ocean.

By Staff Reporter
No South Africans on missing Malaysia Airlines plane
Article
/ 9 March 2014

No South Africans on missing Malaysia Airlines plane

The department of international relations says no South Africans were on the Malaysia Airlines jet, which vanished with 239 people on board.

By Sapa
Bodies extracted from Lanseria plane wreckage
Article
/ 3 February 2014

Bodies extracted from Lanseria plane wreckage

Rescue workers have removed three bodies from the wreckage of a light aircraft that crashed at Lanseria International Airport on Monday morning.

By Sapa
Tourists and pilot die in Kenya plane crash
Africa
/ 22 August 2012

Tourists and pilot die in Kenya plane crash

Four people, including two German tourists, have died after a plane they had chartered crashed in the famed Masai Mara game reserve.

By Sapa Ap
No image available
Article
/ 20 April 2012

Scores feared dead as airliner crashes in Pakistan

A Pakistani airliner with at least 131 people on board has crashed in bad weather near Islamabad’s international airport.

By Staff Reporter
Three dead, scores injured in US air show crash
Article
/ 17 September 2011

Three dead, scores injured in US air show crash

A vintage fighter plane plunged into the grandstands on Friday during a popular air racing show, in Reno, killing three and injuring 56 people.

By Martin Griffith
No image available
Article
/ 3 September 2011

Chile air force plane with 21 aboard crashes

A Chilean air force plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean killing all 21 passengers on board, including a popular local television host.

By Eva Vergara
No image available
Article
/ 30 July 2011

Air France crash blamed on pilot error

Pilots could have saved the plane after it lost speed readings, according to French air investigation report into 2009 accident.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 21 June 2011

Forty-four killed in Russian plane crash

A Russian passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a highway in north-western Russia on Monday night.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 5 April 2011

One survivor from DRC plane crash

Thirty-two people including UN officials and peacekeepers were killed on Monday when a plane crashed on landing in heavy rain in the DRC capital.

By Marc Lokosa
No image available
Article
/ 9 February 2011

Italtile CEO killed in plane crash

The CEO of tile company Italtile, Gianpaolo Ravazzotti, was one of nine people killed in a plane crash over Plettenberg Bay on Tuesday.

By Staff Reporter
Qantas says A380 engine failure may be ‘design issue’
Article
/ 5 November 2010

Qantas says A380 engine failure may be ‘design issue’

A faulty part or a design issue may have caused the explosion in an engine on a Qantas Airways Airbus A380, Qantas chief Alan Joyce said on Friday.

By Victoria Thieberger, James Grubel Author and Michael Perry
No image available
Article
/ 5 November 2010

Dozens killed in Cuba plane crash

A Cuban airliner on a flight to Havana crashed in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board including 28 foreigners, officials said on Friday.

By Isabel Sanchez
No image available
Article
/ 24 August 2010

Plane with 96 on board crashes in China

A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed in Yichun City in north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday night, it has been reported.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 30 July 2010

Pakistan searches for black box of doomed plane

Investigators on Friday on searched for the crucial black box after Pakistan’s worst aviation disaster.

By Khurram Shahzad
Pakistan mourns as investigators probe air crash
Article
/ 29 July 2010

Pakistan mourns as investigators probe air crash

Pakistan on Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country’s worst aviation disaster.

By Staff Reporter
‘No survivors’ in Pakistan plane crash
Article
/ 28 July 2010

‘No survivors’ in Pakistan plane crash

A Pakistani airliner carrying up to 152 people crashed in a ball of flames on Wednesday, killing everyone on board.

By Nasir Jaffry
Scores killed in Pakistan plane crash
Article
/ 28 July 2010

Scores killed in Pakistan plane crash

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of more than 80 people from a Pakistani jet that crashed near Islamabad on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 28 July 2010

Pakistan declares mourning over plane crash

Pakistan declared a day of national mourning and called off a Cabinet meeting after a passenger jet with about 150 on board crashed on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 28 July 2010

Pakistan plane crashes with dozens on board

A commercial Pakistani passenger plane with 152 people on board crashed in bad weather on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.

By Augustine Anthony
India plane crash: ‘We had no hope, but we survived’
Article
/ 23 May 2010

India plane crash: ‘We had no hope, but we survived’

An Air India Express airliner crashed and burst into flames outside an airport in southern India on Saturday, killing 158 people.

By Anil Dsilva
No image available
Article
/ 19 May 2010

Non-crew in cockpit of doomed Kaczynski plane

Non-crew members were in the cockpit of the plane of Polish president Lech Kaczynski before its fatal crash, officials said on Wednesday.

By Stuart Williams and Alexander Osipovich
No image available
Article
/ 18 May 2010

Rescuers locate Afghan plane crash area

Afghan and Nato rescuers on Tuesday located the area where an Afghan passenger plane crashed with 43 people on board.

By Massoud Hossaini
No image available
Article
/ 17 May 2010

Dozens killed in Afghanistan plane crash

A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board crashed in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

By Golnar Motevalli
No image available
Article
/ 14 May 2010

Relatives of Libya crash victims travel to Tripoli

Relatives of some of the South Africans killed in the Libya air crash this week will begin the difficult task of identifying remains on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
‘Miracle’ boy who survived Libya crash doing well
Africa
/ 13 May 2010

‘Miracle’ boy who survived Libya crash doing well

Doctors say the boy who miraculously survived a plane crash that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, is in satisfactory condition.

By Staff Reporter
‘At least nine’ South Africans killed in Libya plane crash
Article
/ 13 May 2010

‘At least nine’ South Africans killed in Libya plane crash

It was reported on Thursday that at least nine South Africans died when a Libyan plane crashed while landing on Wednesday morning.

By Sapa Afp and Mail Guardian Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 12 May 2010

SA checking passenger list of crashed Libyan plane

The SA government is working through the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Libya to verify if there were South Africans aboard.

By Jenni Ogrady
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