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AccidentsAN-26 dropped down in Congo: the number of death climbed to 11
Isiro, Democratic Republic of Congo - Fog may have caused the accident
The Antonov AN-26 plane crashed in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, would have struck a tree before attempting to land at Isiro Airport. It seems that while the aircraft... more
AccidentsAN-26 dropped down in Eastern Congo (2): official death toll was of seven
Isiro, Democratic Republic of Congo - Bad weather may have caused the accident
The Antonov AN-26 cargo aircraft fallen shortly before landing on Isiro Airport’s runway today, was coming from Beni (North-Eastern Congo administrative capital). The control tower would have lost contact a... more
AccidentsBoeing crashed in Indonesia (5): different accounts on the number of the death
Medan, Indonesia - Airplane would have tried an emergency landing on a motorway
There are different accounts on the number of the death of air incident occurred last night, but the most respectable affirm that 111 passengers of the 117, including five crew members, and 30 ground people... more
AccidentsBoeing crashed in Indonesia (4): some passengers survived
Medan, Indonesia - Coffin's recovery is difficult due to rain
The stop-press item released said that at least seven people flying on the B-737 crashed in Indonesia last night would be alive surviving the fire blazed after the crash: now survivors would be in two... more
AccidentsRussian Ka-32 plunged on the Island of Borneo
Borneo, Malaysia - The people were killed in the accident
The entire crew flying on a Russian Ka-32 helicopter died last Saturday in a crash occurred on the Island of Borneo (Malaysia). THe aircraft was chartered by Avialift in Vladivostok to carry timber to... more
AccidentsPilot killed in a German air show
Berlin, Germany - Blaubeuren was close to the slaughter
A small aircraft crashed yesterday while was performing an aerial exhibition at Blaubeuren’s air show, in the Baden-Württemberg, killing pilot. It seems the aircraft came down just 200 metres away from th... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter: the plane was still whole immediately after the impact with water
Rome, Italy - It was unveiled by a photo shown by lawyers of subjects under investigation
Tuninter’s ATR-72 fuselage did not immediately break into three sections during the impact with water during an emergency landing attempted by pilot, but only later. It would have been revealed by a p... more
AccidentsBoeing crashed in Indonesia (3): 30 fatalities among residents too
Medan, Indonesia - The unverified balance rose to 147 death
Also 30 resident would have been killed in the centre of Medan where the Boeing 737 aircraft of Indonesian Mandala Airlines no-frills carrier has crashed. The aircraft broke into two large sections and... more
AccidentsBoeing crashed in Indonesia (2): structures and cars in flames in Medan downtown
Medan, Indonesia - The dead could include local inhabitants too
The airplane would have crashed on at least 10 buildings, minibuses and cars, a lot of which caught fire: the disaster has in fact occurred in the centre of the city of Medan, very close to one of the... more
AccidentsBoeing crashed in Indonesia: 117 fatalities
Medan, Indonesia - No passengers survived the tragic accident
A Boeing 737-200 belonging to local low-cost Mandala Airlines bound for Jakarta, shortly after take-off from "Polonia" Airport went down in a residential area 500 metres past the runway at Medan (Indonesia)... more
AccidentsPiper crashed in Colombia killing eight
Bogotà, Colombia - It was just taken from Guaymaral Airport
A small private airplane crashed at 10:46am local time yesterday, in a field shortly after takeoff from Guaymaral Airport, North of Bogotà. The eight people on board the twin engine Piper Navajo aircraft... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter: also an Avio's technician is under investigation
Rome, Italy - A responsible for extraordinary maintenance activities on the aircraft's powerplant
There is a new subject under investigation concerning the ATR-72 Tuninter accident, also in this case accused for negligent homicide and disaster. It deals with Mario De Giorgi, a responsible for extraordinary... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed: the second black box has been found
Lima, Perù - A local inhabitant delivered it for a reward of USD 500
Peruvian authorities investigating into the air disaster involving the Boeing B-737/200 of Tans carrier crashed six km from Pucallpa Airport (see for details AVIONEWS), have recovered also the second black... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: Helios Boeing technical checks have been successfully completed
Athens, Greece - Experts questioned engineers who serviced the aircraft
Helios Airways noticed that technical checks on remaining two Boeing 737-800s of its fleet have been successfully completed. Cypriot carrier had in fact reached an agreement with SAS Scandinavian Air Services... more
AccidentsConcorde's accident: Continental Airlines mechanic to be under investigation
Paris, France - He fitted the DC-10’s titanium component which caused the explosion of a wheel of the supersonic airplane
An international arrest warrant for manslaughter has been issued for John Taylor, US mechanic for Continental Airlines, blamed for the air accident occurred on July 25, 2000 when an Air France Concorde... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident (2): analyses on the DNA of missing persons' bodies have started
Palermo, Italy - Results to be achieved in 7-10 days
Analyses of DNA on two out of three bodies belonging to missing people after the accident of the ATR-72 Tuninter and recently found in the Sicily’s water, during recovery operations which can be practically c... more
AccidentsSecond degree trial for Linate air crash to occur next October 24
Milan, Italy - The first degree trial condemned four people
The second degree trial for the accident occurred on October 8, 2001, at Linate Airport, will be held next October 24. The second process for the crash involving a private Cessna plane and a Boeing aicraft... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: investigations could be extended abroad
Palermo, Italy - Additional persons could be included in the list of subjects under investigation
After accomplishing the recovery of the three missing people’s rests and the remaining structural sections besides the two black boxes of the ATR-72 Tuninter, one must now complete both the technical a... more
AccidentsIraq: US Army's helicopter downed killing one soldier
Baghdad, Iraq - Another serviceman emerged injured
A military has been killed and another one emerged wounded yesterday when a helicopter belonging to US Army has been forced to an emergency landing under Iraqi guerrilla’s fire in the city of Tall Afar, 2... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: missing persons' bodies and the second black box have been recovered
Palermo, Italy - Edt Ares ship brought to the surface also the tail section and part of the cockpit
Cyprus’ ship named Edt Ares, as appointed by US company Phoenix International to perform recovery operations for the remaining sections of the ATR-72 Tuninter’s wreckage in Sicily, recovered the skeletons of... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed: USD 100,000 to compensate passengers
Lima, Perù - Airline unveiled the amount of compensation it is expected to pay
Passengers flying on board the Boeing 737 of Tans carrier crashed six km from Pucallpa Airport while was about to land as a stopover on the route Lima-Iquitos (see for details AVIONEWS), will get a recoupment... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: 118 coffins of 121 victims have been recognized
Athens, Greece - Three corpses are expected to be identified
Hellenic authorities have completed the identification of 118 bodies belonging to passengers killed in the air disaster involving the Cypriot Boeing 737 crashed on Grammatiko hill, Athens, Greece, last... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter (2): a body and a black box have been recovered
Palermo, Italy - DNA analysis to verify victim's identity
The body of one of the three missing persons of the ATR-72 Tuninter accident was recovered this morning, together with one of the two black boxes. It is unclear whose such a body is as just a skeleton... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: recovery operations of black boxes have started
Palermo, Italy - Meanwhile, analyses on fuel at Pratica di Mare would seem to exclude the hypothesis related to the presence of residuals
Robots deployed by Cyprus’ ship called Edt Ares detected various debris and structural components of the ATR-72 Tuninter’s wreckage in Sicily on last Saturday, August 27. Slinging operations for such sec... more
AccidentsGarang's death in helicopter crash: black boxes inspection has started
Moscow, Russia - SPLM does not abandon the attempt scent
Black boxes of the Mi-172 helicopter in which Sudan’s Vice-President John Garang, his assistants and seven Uganda’s crew members perished on July 30, will be examined at Moscow, where aircraft was man... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: compensation request from Bari for one dead and two survivors
Bari, Italy - They would be addressed to Tuninter, ATR, Pratt & Whitney, Swan Tour-Sprintours tour operators and ENAC
Tunisian airline Tuninter (related to Tunisair), European group ATR, US company Pratt & Whitney (which produced the powerplant of the ATR-72 aircraft), Swan Tour-Sprintours tour operators and ENAC (Italian... more
AccidentsAir transport fatal August
Rome, Italy - The number of victims emerged from the various air accidents is heavy
Crash occurred in Perù yesterday is only the latest on the list which is about to make heavy the number of people died and injured in air disasters happened only in August. Last August 1st a French Civil... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed: 59 survivors
Lima, Perù - Italian passenger Walter Panni reported still missing waiting for the official confirmation of his death
PEruvian police said 59 passengers survived and 41 have been killed in the air accident involving a Boeing 737 of Tans carrier crashed six km from Pucallpa Airport while was about to land as a stopover... more
AccidentsTourism plane crashed in Switzerland (2): people killed aboard the Cessna 172 have been identified
Sion, Switzerland - Passengers came from Czech Republic
Tourism plane fallen on Swiss Alps due to bad weather yesterday was a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a 4-seats Czech-registered aircraft. Prague’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the four accident’s cas... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed (3): Boeing' sympathies to victim's relatives
Lima, Perù - Benedict XVI has sent affected families a telegram
Boeing, the US company making the airplane crashed while was attempting an emergency landing in Perù, extended its deepest sympathies to casualty’s families and said it is ready to provide technical su... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed (2): an Italian national among accident's casualties
Lima, Perù - It is difficult establishing the exact number of victims, there are still a lot of bodies to recover
Italian flying on the B-737/200 aircraft belonging to Peruvian Tans carrier crashed in the jungle North-East to Lima, were 4 in all. Walter Panni, the Italian citizen killed in the terrible incident, left... more
AccidentsTourism plane crashed in Switzerland: the number of victims is four
Sion, Switzerland - A blast of wind could have caused the accident
Tourism plane crashed on the Simplon Pass, between Switzerland and Italy, has not been still identified, it is clear only that it was a Czech-registered aircraft and 4 passengers have been found killed.... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter: the recovery of the two black boxes to start by next Sunday
Palermo, Italy - A Cyprus' ship to attend to it as it is carrying equipment provided by US company Phoenix International towards Sicily
Cyprus’ ship named Edt Ares, which will be used by US company Phoenix International for the recovery in the sea of the two ATR-72 Tuninter’s black boxes, should arrive in Sicily on next Friday. The bla... more
AccidentsTourism plane crashed in Switzerland killing all passengers
Sion, Switzerland - The tragedy may caused by bad weather
An airplane, a tourism single-engine, presumably because of the bad weather conditions affecting the Switzerland, dropped between Sempione pass and the village of Sempione at Engiloch in the early afternoon... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed: at least 41 the dead, two Italian nationals injured
Lima, Peru - The B-737 was en route from Lima to Iquitos, with a stop at Pucallpa
A Boeing B-737/200 of Transportes Aereos Nacionales de la Selva (TANS) carrier, belonging to Peruvian Air Force (FAP, Fuerza Area del Peru), after attempting an emergency landing due to a rough storm in... more
AccidentsColombian plane crashed in Venezuela: French casualty's funeral to occur on Wednesday
Caracas, Venezuela - No hypothesis on disaster cause has been ruled out
President Jacques Chirac will reach the island of Martinique where funeral of 150 French casualties of the crash involving the West Caribbean Airways MD-82 killing 160 passengers is expected to occur.... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident (2): Helios planes to fly to Sweden for technical checks
Athens, Greece - Capt. Merten had an experience of over 17,000 flying hours
Helios Airways has announced that the other two Boeing 737-300 composing its fleet left an orphan of the B-737 crashed in Greece, will undergo technical checks in the next days in Sweden. Cypriot carrier... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: preliminary investigation's results
Athens, Greece - Depressurisation and shortfall of jet-fuel caused the tragedy
Helios Cypriot carrier’s plane invovled in the crash of last August 14 North to Athens where 121 people were killed, would be fallen due to a shortfall of jet-fuel and anomaly to cabin pressurisation l... more
AccidentsBritish charter plane forced to an emergency touch-down
Paris, France - The B-737 with pressurisation problems landed without difficulty
A Boeing B-737 belonging to Astreus Airlines charter carrier en route from the Baleari’s island of Menorca to Leeds, has been forced to an emergency landing at French airport of Brest-Guipavas because o... more
AccidentsFrench Tracker's accident (2): it has opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation
Paris, France - "The number of victims was serious": unions concerned about pilot's safety
French authorities have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation on the death of two pilots aboard the Civil Defence’s Tracker crashed in Ardeche Department last Saturday. They intend to make c... more
AccidentsAn other fire fighting plane crashed in France
Paris, France - A Civil Defence Tracker dropped to the ground killing two crew members
A French Civil Defence Tracker plane crashed while was performing an operative mission on a fire blazed in Valgorge’s forest, Department of Ardeche (Southern France) last Saturday. Both crew members h... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter's accident: the US company to recover the black boxes
Palermo, Italy - In ten days, wile the analyses on fluids and the powerplant running go on
No certainty on the accident which affected the ATR-72 Tuninter exists yet about its cause. Italian Air Force’s Pratica di Mare Base is expected to provide the results of the analyses on powerplant fluids b... more
AccidentsISAF helicopter crashed in Afghanistan: funeral of 17 victims to occur tomorrow
Madrid, Spain - No trace of hostile fire on the Cougar wreckage
Funeral of 17 NATO soldiers killed in the helicopter crash occurred at Herat, Afghanistan, last Tuesday, will be held tomorrow at Madrid: they will be served in the Spanish Army’s headquarters. Defence M... more
AccidentsColombian plane crashed in Venezuela: French technicians to cooperate in investigation
Caracas, Venezuela - The 160 coffins have been recovered: now the sad rite of identification is expected
French experts will take part in Venezuela’s investigation onto the crash involving the West Caribbean Airways MD-82 killing 160 people. Meanwhile Colombian authorities decided to ground airplanes belonging t... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: toxicological tests gave negative result
Athens, Greece - Passengers have not breathed carbon monoxide
Toxicological tests on the body of the co-pilot, three stewardess and two passengers (a child and a random adult) killed in the accident of the Boing 737 belonging to Cypriot Helios carrier, would have... more
AccidentsA Colombian military plane resorted to an emergency landing
Bogota, Colombia - On board there passengers destined to travel by suspended WCA's flights
A Hercules C-130 of Colombian Air Force carrying 184 passengers expected to travel by suspended West Caribbean Airways flights (see for details AVIONEWS), has been forced to an emergency landing in Bogota’s "... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: Italian Navy found both black boxes
Palermo, Italy - Italian Air Force's analyses results on the aircraft's fluids to be accomplished within a week
Italian Navy’s "Magnaghi" ship traced both the black boxes belonging to the ATR-72 Tuninter. Recovery down to an about 1440 m depth will have to be performed during the next days while also the forward a... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: Boeing ran out of fuel
Athens, Greece - Both engines shut down at few minute's intervals
As investigations into the causes the accident occurred to Helios Airways plane crashed North to Athens last Sunday are going on, Greek authorities are trying to determine the nature of the mechanical... more
AccidentsISAF helicopter crashed in Afghanistan: Spanish coffins in flight to home
Kabul, Afghanistan - Spain declared two days of mourning
Wrapped in the national flag, bodies of 17 Spanish soldiers killed on board the Cougar AS-532 helicopter of the Afghanistan peacekeeping force crashed last Tuesday, departed today from the military base... more
AccidentsRussian Mi-8 crashed in Siberia: four dead
Moscow, Russia - Another chopper of the same type performed an emergency landing few hours before
A Russian military Mi-8 helicopter crashed at Nfteiugansk, Siberia, killing 4 people and injuring two. On board there were three technicians and three crew members who were carrying out aerial surveillance... more