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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

Emiliano Sala (Getty Images)

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

Emiliano Sala on January 18 2019 in Cardiff, Wales. (Cardiff City FC/Getty Images)

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

The preliminary crash report from Indonesia’s transport safety agency suggested that pilots of Flight 610 struggled to control the plane’s anti-stalling system immediately before the crash. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)

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

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applies the final touches to a sand art sculpture he created wishing for the well being of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Three dead

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Qantas says A380 engine failure may be ‘design issue’

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.

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.

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.

Pakistan searches for black box of doomed plane

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

Pakistan mourns as investigators probe air crash

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.