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AccidentsSINGAPORE AIRLINES CRASH: THE CARRIER DEFENDS ITS CAPTAIN
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Singapore Airlines defended its pilot's decision to take off in heavy wind and rain. The Captain C.K. is a veteran pilot and he wasn't reckless for deciding to fly said a spokesman of the... more
AccidentsCHINA AIRLINES AIRBUS LANDED OFF THE RUNWAY
AUSTRALIA, All unhurt the passengers of the Airbus which yesterday went off the runway while landing at an australian airport and landed on the grass. Rescue teams operated promptly. more
AccidentsBAD TIMES FOR INTERNATIONAL AVIATION: AN ANTONOV CRASHES IN ANGOLA
SAURIMO, ANGOLA, Really bat times for aviation. After Carabinieri helicopter crash (8 killed) last sunday and the eighty victims of Singapore Airlines Boeing crash, yesterday afternoon, another incident... more
Accidents+++ (12) SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT CRASHED: 80 VICTIMS TAIWAN OFFICIALS SAID
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, According to Taiwan's civil aeronautics administration the victims of the Boeing 747-400 of Singapore Airlines crashed yesterday has raised to at least 80. The plane's flight data recorder... more
Accidents(11) +++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES 747 CRASH: VICTIMS BALANCE
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, 79 died in the Singapore Airlines 747-400: this is the final balance of the air disaster occurred yesterday in the early afternoon at international Taipei airport, on Taiwan island. The... more
Accidents+++ (9) SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASH: VICTIMS REPORTED
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, In opposition at CNN declaration, released from news agency according with a SIA spokesman release, there were many victims in the 747-400 aircraft accident on Taipei airport. Taiwan transportation... more
Accidents(8)+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASHES
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, No victims are reported in the Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 aircraft crashed in Taipei international airport today afternnon, said airline spokesman. There were 30 injured people hospitalized... more
Accidents(7)+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASHES
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, According to local officials, there should be at least 30 survivors at Singapore Airlines aircraft wreck occurred at Taipei international airport. more
Accidents(6)+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT CRASHED
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Eighteen injured passengers have been pulled out of the wreck of Singapore Airlines jetliner crashed in the early afternoon at Chiang Kai Shek. There were 179 people on board. The 18 survivors... more
Accidents(5)+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASHES; OCTOBER 31: SAD DAY FOR CIVIL AVIATION
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Exactly one year ago, on october 31, 1999, an EgyptAir operated passenger aircraft en route from New York to El Cairo mysteriously plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all... more
Accidents(4)+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT CRASHED
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, According to police of Taiwan the plane of Singapore Airlines crashed two hours ago at Taipei airport was carrying 179 passengers. The plane, according to the sources, exploded after colliding... more
Accidents(3) +++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASHES
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, According with local authorities, crash of the Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft could be due to a sudden windshear, as weather condition on Taipei airport was bad at the moment... more
Accidents+++SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT CRASHED DOWN
TAIWAN, According to local officials the Boeing 747 of Singapore Airlines, flight SQ006, crashed down this afternoon at 15:18 GGMT at Chiang Kai Shek airport of Tapei exploded shortly after takeoff... more
Accidents+++ SINGAPORE AIRLINES AIRCRAFT CRASHES
TAIWAN, A Singapore Airlines operated aircraft crashed shortly after take off from Taiwan international airport. The aircraft was heading Los Angeles and presently there are no further informations about... more
AccidentsCC HELICOPTER RESCUE OPERATIONS HINDERED FROM THE BAD WEATHER
CAPRAIA, LIVORNO, AB412SP Carabinieri helicopter crashed yesterday into the sea, killing 7 carabinieri and a civilian, rescue operations are being carried on. The heavy sea and the high wind force 9 are... more
AccidentsCARABINIERI HELICOPTER CRASH, 8 PEOPLE KILLED
ROME, An Agusta AB-412SP helicopter of Carabinieri crashed yesterday evening at 21:30 pm local time. The aircraft took off from the isle of Capraia, carrying 8 people, it was on a mission to transfer... more
AccidentsCARABINIERI HELICOPTER CRASH: CONSIDERATIONS
CAPRAIA, LIVORNO, The AB-412SP Carabinieri helicopter crash killing 8 people, started a debate about the advisability of using a £4 million helicopter weith a price of £2000 for an hour of flight to t... more
AccidentsDETAILS ABOUT THE BRITISH EH-101 CRASHED
WAPA-LONDON, The EH-101 helicopter crashed into the sea off the west coast of Scotland, belonged to a Royal Navy flight wing. The helicopter was carrying out underwater sonar tests when it suffered "some... more
AccidentsAIR LINGUS: MORE PROBLEMS ON LANDING
DUBLIN; IRELAND, An Air Lngus flight from New York to Dublin Airport with about 300 passengers today reported problems. Infact the plane had problems with its landing gear, emergency services were put... more
AccidentsENGLISH PILOT OBLIGED TO JUMP
UNITED KNGDOM, The pilot of the english military aircraft Jaguar is obliged to jump near Lockerbie, in Scotland, after his plane crossed a flock of birds, that caused a stop an engine. The pilot was... more
AccidentsAIR LINGUS'S AIRCRAFT SLID ON TO THE GRASS ON LANDING
CORK, IRELAND, An aircraft Fokker 50 of the Air Lingus, arrivig from Dulino, slid off the runway and went on to the grass near the runway after landing. The 50 passengers and the 4 crew members were unhurt,... more
AccidentsEH-101 CRASHED INTO THE SEA IN SCOTLAND (2)
ISLE OF SKYE, A naval commission is undergoing the cause of the AgustaWestland EH-101 helicopter, the most expensive ever built, crash into the sea. The accident occurred shortly before 10 BST in the... more
AccidentsFOUND DESTROYED THE VOICE RECORDER OF THE RUSSIAN PLANE CRASHED
BATUMI, RUSSIA, The voice recorder from Russian military Ilyushin-18 aircraft, crashed some days ago, has been found, heavily damaged. In the accident, near Batumi's air base, all of the 83 people on board... more
AccidentsAIRBUS FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING AT FIUMICINO AIRPORT
ROME, An Alitalia Airbus A321 carrying 130 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at Fiumicino airport yesterday because of a damage at hydraulic system. The plane was flying to Istanbul. No... more
AccidentsAT LEAST 15 INJURED ON PAL AIRCRAFT FOR AIR TURBOLENCE
MANILA, A strong turbolence experienced yesterday by an Airbus A340 aircraft operated by Philippine Airlines (PAL) caused injuries to at least 15 passengers; they are not wearing safety belts or they... more
AccidentsROYAL NAVY HELICOPTERS CRASHES IN THE SEA
LONDON, The new Royal Navy Merlin helicopters made bye AgustaWestland crashed today in to the Scotish sea. All persons on board survaive. more
AccidentsTURKEY: THREE PLANES NEAR TO COLLIDE BECAUSE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS STRIKE
TURKEY, Three planes of Turkish Airlines, all Boeing 737s, were near to collide with three othe aircrafts today because of airline's air traffic controllers strike, said a spokesman of the turkish... more
AccidentsPLANE CRASH IN SCOTLAND, UNHURT THE PILOT
SCOTLAND, A RAF plane came down five miles north east of Dumfries, in Scotland. The pilot parachuted out and after being treated by paramedics for minor injures he has been taken to Dumfries Infirm... more
AccidentsCONCORDE: DC 10 METAL STRIP WAS NOT AN ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT
WAPA-PARIS, The metal strip which caused a tyre explosion on the Air France Concorde at "Charles de Gaulle" airport was part of a repaired thrust reverser of a turbofan CF6 on a Continental Airlines' McDonnell... more
AccidentsFLIGHT INSTRUCTOR AND PUPIL KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA, USA, A single-engine Cessna 152 crashed into a field on an Indian Reservation near the town of Alpine, California. Both the passengers, a flight instructor and the pupil, were killed. The cause... more
AccidentsRECOVERED THE FLIGHT RECORDER OF CRASHED ILYUSHIN
BATUMI, The flight recorder of the Ilyushin crashed yesterday has been recovered. It will be useful to make the cause of the crash clear. All the people on board died in the crash, 71 passengers and... more
AccidentsEMERGENCY LANDING FOR A 737 OF AIR CANADA
CANADA, A Boeing 737 of Air Canada had to make an emergency landing yeterday after an electrical failure. The plane, which was carrying some journalists and the canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien,... more
AccidentsILYUSHIN CREASHES IN GEORGIA
WAPA-BATUMI-GEORGIA, An Ilyushin of russian Ministry of Defense crashed yesterday into caucasian mountains, 25 km east of Batumi. The aircraft was carrying about 80 people and it was flying to Batumi air... more
AccidentsSMALL PLANE CRASHES IN GERMANY
BLUMBERG, GERMANY, A small twin-engine plane crashed into a mountain last night nearby Blumberg, Germany. The thick fog prevented the pilot from detecting the headland. Four people died. more
AccidentsTWO PLANES COLLIDE ON A RUNWAY IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Two planes, a Boeing 727 of American Trans Air and a small jet of ComAir, collide while taxiing on a runway of NY La Guardia airport. No passenger was injured. The planes suffered light d... more
AccidentsQANTAS: THROMBOSIS IS NOT CAUSED ONLY BY LONG HAUL ROUTES
LONDON, Qantas airline, about the death of Emma Christoffersen for blood clot, said there is no direct connection between that pathology and long haul routes. According to the carrier there are risks from... more
AccidentsUGANDA: LIGHT AEROPLANE PLUNGES INTO LAKE VICTORIA
UGANDA, A light aeroplane plunged into Lake Victoria attempting to land at Entebbe international airport in Uganda. The aircraft, with five people on board, was in route from northern Tanzania. The cause... more
AccidentsMID-AIR COLLISION IN ARGENTINA, 11 KILLED
ARGENTINA, Two Piper aircraft have collided in flight in western Argentina last night. The accident happened over the city of Chacabuco. All the 11 people on board were killed, including four children.... more
AccidentsAIR CRASH IN DELAWARE, THREE KILLED
DELAWARE, USA, The number of people killed when a single engined Beechcraft Musketeer aircraftlanded on a Interstate Highway 71 in Delaware has risen to three. Two passengers died in the crash, one in... more
AccidentsWOMAN DIES FROM BLOOD CLOT AFTER 20-HOUR FLIGHT
LONDON, A british woman aged 28, Emma Christoffersen, died from a blood clot after a 20-hours flight from Sydney to London. Ms Christoffersen complained of feeling unwell a few minutes before Qantas flight... more
AccidentsGOVERNOR'S SON TOLD AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS THE PLAN WAS MALFUNCTIONING
MISSOURI, USA, According to NTSB the son of Governor Mel Carnahan told air traffic controllers the instruments of Cessna 335 he was piloting was malfunctioning minutes before it crashed. Carnahan, his... more
AccidentsBURST TIRE CLOSED NAIROBI AIRPORT
NAIROBI, KENYA, Nairobi Jomo Keniatta airport was closed a few hours after a Kenya Airways Boeing 737-200 had to abort take-off because of a burst tire. The aircraft veered off the runway, but no one... more
AccidentsSMALL AIRLINE PLANE CRASHES IN LAOS
VIENTIANE, LAOS, A laotian small airline plane, carrying 15 people, crashed yesterday during a flight from the capital Vientiane to the northern town of Sam Neua. The small plane, a chinese made Y-12,... more
AccidentsARMY HELICOPTER CRASHES IN COLOMBIA
BOGOTA, A colombian army Black Hawk helicopter, which was flying 22 soldiers into the town of Dabeiba, went down in an isolated region of north-west Antioquia after being hit by gunfire. An undeterminated... more
AccidentsSMOKEY OVEN ON A PLANE AND THE PILOT RETURNS TO AIRPORT
WASHINGTON, A smokey oven sent Mariners plane back to NYC airport after the pilot made this decision for safety reasons. Mariners were just eliminated by Indians, in the semi-final of U.S. baseball league.... more
AccidentsRAF HAWK CRASHES IN UK
UK, An hawk jet of RAF crashed yesterday afternoon on a minor road near Lowick, south of Berwick. Unhurt the pilot and the navigator who parachuted before the crash. The jet was on a routine navigation... more
AccidentsTWO INDIAN MIG-21 COLLIDES, BOTH PILOTS DIED
INDIA, The pilots of two russian built Mig21 fighter jets of the India's Air force have collided few minutes after take off from Salonibari air force base, are died. The airport of Salonibari, where the... more
Accidents(2) FOUND GOVERNOR AIRCRAFT, ALL DIED
HILLSBORO, MISSOURI, USA, The sheriff of the Hillsboro County has declared that the small aircraft crashed with Mel Carnahan, Missouri Governor, his son, Roger "Randy" Carnahan and the governor's political... more
AccidentsMISSOURI GOVERNOR PROBABLY DIED IN AIR ACCIDENT
USA, A small aircraft with the democratic governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, his son and a political adviser on board, has disappeared from radar control displays. The aircraft was heading New Madrid... more
AccidentsACCIDENT SURVIVORS AWARDED OVER USD$ 6 MILLION
USA, Anna Lloyd, 22, a survivor of the American Airlines crash at Little Rock airport occurred on June 1, 1999, has been refunded, by jury order, over USD6 million in compensation for the psychological... more