The Pigeon Express
A plane crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s capital but there were no fatalities among the 36 people on board. Dramatic footage shot near the airport in Mogadishu shows thick black smoke rising above the crash site. Firefighters doused the flames and pictures from the scene show the plane, a […]
A cargo plane crashed in northern Greece on Saturday, killing all eight people on board and raising concerns about the Serbian military equipment it was carrying. The plane was transporting equipment including illuminating mortar shells and training shells to Bangladesh when it crashed near Eleftheroupoli in the northeastern Kavala region, the Serbian Minister of Defense […]
A small plane has crashed on to a major road in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, killing at least six people. The aircraft was on its way from the capital to the south-eastern port town of Jacmel when it came down in the suburb of Carrefour. It injured several people on the ground. The pilot was […]
An airplane crashed in the El Cajon area of Southern California on Monday, leaving no survivors, authorities said. The plane was scheduled to land at a local airfield when it went down just after 7:00pm, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Firefighters found no survivors at the scene, authorities said in a news […]
At least three people have died in a plane crash in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) South Kivu province, says the provincial transport minister while another local official says the death toll could be as high as five. The small passenger plane went down in the village of Keisha, about 15km from […]
One of Blue Origin’s astronauts, 49-year-old Glen de Vries, who rode to space in October alongside actor William Shatner died in a small plane crash on Thursday in New Jersey. “Our thoughts and support go out to Glen’s family,” said a spokesperson for Dassault Systèmes, where de Vries was the vice chairman of life sciences […]
A Boston-bound plane carrying more than 20 people struck a fence and erupted in flames while taking off at Houston Executive Airport on Tuesday morning, officials said.No major injuries were reported.The passengers and crew managed to leave the plane before firefighters extinguished the flames engulfing the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 on a field outside the airport, […]
At least 16 people were killed and six injured after a plane crashed in Russia’s Tatarstan region on Sunday. The aircraft, which came down near the city of Menzelinsk, was carrying 20 parachutists and two crew members. Six people were in a serious condition, the health ministry said. The crash took place at about 9:23am […]
An Afghan military plane crashed in Uzbekistan over the weekend, and Uzbek authorities on Monday issued conflicting reports on the cause. The wreckage came as dozens of Afghan military aircraft carrying hundreds of servicemen reportedly reached Uzbekistan, among the thousands fleeing the country after the Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital of Kabul. The plane crash […]
A “slip of the tongue” by an air traffic controller at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport saw two planes come within 300 feet of crashing into each other last July, according to a report released Tuesday. The incident on July 20, 2020, involved a United Airlines Boeing 787 arriving from Newark, New Jersey, and an […]
The pilots of a Russian passenger plane have been hailed as heroes after they saved all 19 people on board after they were forced to crash land in Siberia. The Antonov An-28 aircraft with four children on board had disappeared from radars on a one hour 20 minute flight in the Tomsk region in western […]
A passenger plane carrying 28 people crashed in Russia’s far east on Tuesday, leaving everyone on board feared dead. The plane was en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a town in northwestern Kamchatka, when it lost contact with air traffic control shortly before 3:00pm local time. There were 22 passengers and six crew […]