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AccidentsLion Air incident: found the fuselage of the plane
The transport minister suspends the director of the technical area of Lion Air
The divers of the Indonesian Armed Forces would have managed this morning to identify the rest of the fuselage of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft of Lion Air crashed on Monday morning. After two days of... more
AccidentsLion Air incident: research continues to find the black boxes of the plane
Divers in action along with 35 ships and a drone
The research continues in Indonesia of the wreckage of the B-737 MAX 8 plane of Lion Air crashed into the sea yesterday shortly after taking off from the Jakarta airport. The divers are try this morning... more
AccidentsLion Air incident (4): is it possible a new ban on flying in Europe?
Concrete risk if the investigations will find out that it was a mistake
There was a case that the European Union (EU) had put in the black-list all the Indonesian carriers? What is certain is that the real risk of revising the decision again is high, especially if the Boeing... more
AccidentsLion Air incident (3): confirmed the presence of an Italian on the plane
New details regarding the ten minutes of flight emerge
It is confirmed that among the 189 people of the plane Boeing B-737 MAX 8 airplane of Lion Air crashed this morning there was an Italian. The Indonesian site "Kamparan" has in fact published the list of... more
AccidentsLion Air incident (2): from the data, something may not have worked
Altitude has never stabilized
The Indonesian divers are still busy identifying and recovering the black boxes of the Lion Air Boeing B-737 MAX 8 crashed this morning, so as to allow the Jakarta investigators to start working to identify... more
AccidentsIndonesia: aircraft of Lion Air crashed into the sea after take-off
No survivors of the B-737 MAX 8 among which it seems an Italian -VIDEO
This morning a Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft -registration PK-LQP- of Lion Air operating on the route between Jakarta and Pangkal -flight JT610- crashed shortly after taking off from the Indonesian capital's... more
AccidentsLeicester: the club president's helicopter crashes
The AW-169 had taken off from the stadium. 5 dead
The AW-169 helicopter -registration G-VSKP- used by the chairman of Leicester crashed on Saturday just outside the "King Power Stadium", shortly after taking off. The aircraft -where the president Vichai... more
AccidentsUSA: helicopter crashes on the USS "Ronald Reagan"
Soldiers on board were injured. The flight deck can still be used
This morning in the Philippine Sea a US Navy MH-60 Seahawk helicopter crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS "Ronald Reagan", shortly after take-off for a training mission to search and... more
AccidentsBelgium: accidental shots destroy an F-16 plane of the Air Force
A technician started burst of cannon from other aircraft
An incredibile incident it happened yesterday afternoon at the Florennes Air Base, when during a maintenance on an F-16 aircraft of the Belgium Air Component a technician accidentally opened fire and hitting... more
AccidentsRussia. Sukhoi SJ-100 plane finishes off the runway landing
Probable causes the ice and a human error -VIDEO
A Sukhoi Superjet-100 aircraft -registration RA-89011- used by the carrier Yakutia this morning, made an off-piste after landing at Yakutsk Airport in Russia, without any of the 91 people on board reporting... more
AccidentsRussia. MiG-29 aircraft crashes due to failure
Save the two pilots who have been ejected -VIDEO
This morning a Russian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter aircraft crashed near Moscow in a forest close to the village of Dmitrovskoye, due to a problem with the control system that forced the pilots to eject after... more
AccidentsAir Niugini: pilot misses landing and the plane ends up at sea
Fortunately no serious injured among the 47 people on board -2 VIDEO
A Boeing B-737/800 aircraft -registration P2-PXE- used by Air Niugini -the Papua New Guinea flag carrier- ended up in the water after the pilot missed the landing at Chuuk Airport in Micronesia by tapping... more
AccidentsUSA: T-6 Texan II training aircraft crash
Many problems in the last year for this model -VIDEO
A Beechcraft T-6 Texan II training aircraft -with brands 05-6209- yesterday crashed during a training session in San Antonio, Texas. The aircraft took off from the Randolph Air Force Base, but during the... more
AccidentsSouth Sudan accident: plane crash during landing. 19 dead
In the survivors also an Italian doctor
A Let L-410UVP aircraft -registration UR-TWO- used by the Ukrainian airline Slaver Company crashed yesterday just before landing in South Sudan, causing the death of 19 of the 22 people on board. In the... more
AccidentsRussia: Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes in Siberia
Died all the 3 people on board
A "bad" Sunday for the Mil Mi-8 helicopters, because in addition to the one crashed in Afghanistan that caused the death of 12 people, it fell a second in the Irkutsk region in Russia causing the death... more
AccidentsAfghanistan: 12 killed in the Mil Mi-8 helicopter crash
At the basis of the accident a technical failure
A Russian-produced Mil Mi-8MTV helicopter -with registration ER-MHR- used by an international Moldovan freight company crashed yesterday during take-off from the 209th Army Corps base at Mazar-i Sharif,... more
AccidentsPakistan: Sea King of the Navy crashes
Fallen into the sea due to unknown causes. One dead
A Westland WS-61 Sea King helicopter from the Pakistan Navy crashed into the Arabian Sea today causing the death of one of the seven crew members. The Navy spokesman confirmed the incident and explained... more
AccidentsSmolensk plane crash: Poland calls for new expertise
Moscow responds: already explored and rejected hypothesis on board
The investigative committee investigating the plane crash of the presidential flight of Poland crashed near Smolensk in Russia in 2010 and which led to the death of all 96 people on board -including President... more
AccidentsEthiopia. Aircraft crash: 18 dead
The Ethiopian Air Force transport crashed during a flight
A military aircraft from the Ethiopian Air Force crashed this morning at 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa while flying from the city of Dire Dawa to that of Bushoftu. At least 18 people are on board and... more
AccidentsGreece: T-2E Buckeye training aircraft crashed
The pilot died and co-pilot unharmed
Breaking news. A North American T-2E Buckeye intermediate training aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force crashed this morning around the 8:50am just outside Sparta, in the Peloponnese, after taking off from... more
AccidentsAircraft crash in Nepal: Dash-8 falled down due to pilot
The commander was upset and cried for a large part of the flight
The incident involving the Bombardier Dash-8 Q-400 aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines connecting Dhaka with Kathmandu on March 12, 2018 -that provoked the death of 51 of 71 people on board- was caused by the... more
AccidentsRussia: emergency landing for a Tu-204 fire cause
Engine on fire immediately after take-off this morning -VIDEO
This morning a Tupolev Tu-204 plane of the Russian airline Red Wings, that took off from Ufa headed to Sochi, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff due to a fire in the left engine. After just... more
AccidentsJunker Ju-52: crashed following a spin trajectory
This emerges from the preliminary Sisi report
The Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (SISI) has published a preliminary report on the incident involving the Junker Ju-52 aircraft on August 4 on the Piz Segnas, which crashed on the ground... more
AccidentsSweden: a Saab Gripen crashed after a bird strike
The pilot is saved and ejected, but a fire breaks out on the point of impact
A Saab JAS 39C Gripen aircraft from the Swedish Air Force crashed this morning in Möljeryd, at north of Kallinge airport after a bird strike. The pilot managed to eject, and after being recovered from... more
AccidentsMünster Airport: Baron 58 crashed, 2 victims
The fact during a training flight. Closed the airport
Today at the Münster-Osnabrück International Airport a Beechcraft G-58 Baron -with PH-CJX brands- crashed during the landing killing the two people on board. The plane took off from Lelystad airport -... more
AccidentsJu-52 accident: 20 dead and many doubts about the reasons for the crash
The plane was used by the company for tourist flights on the Alps
A Juncker Ju-52 aircraft used for tourist flights in Switzerland by Ju-Air -after its long service from 1939 to 1985 in the Swiss Air Force- crashed last Saturday on Piz Segnas, in the canton of Grisons,... more
AccidentsAeroméxico: recover the black boxes of the plane
Incident filmed by a passenger from inside the cabin
The authorities of the civil aviation agency of Mexico recovered the flight recorders of the Embraer E-190 plane crashed the day before yesterday at Durango airport during take-off. This was declared by... more
AccidentsMalaysia: early open investigation on air traffic controllers
The survey will be linked to the final report on the MH370 flight
The final publication of the report of the independent investigation on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Boeing B-777/200ER aircraft on 8th March 2014 didn't only cause the resignation of the Malaysian... more
AccidentsAeroméxico plane crash (2). Embraer statement
The E-190 was delivered in May 2008 -2 VIDEO
Embraer is aware of the accident with an E-190 aircraft operated by Aeroméxico, Flight AM2431, late yesterday afternoon, during take-off from the General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport, in the... more
AccidentsAeroméxico: plane crashes shortly after take-off from Durango
No dead among the 103 passengers on board
An Embraer ERJ-190AR airplane with XA-GAL registration of Aeroméxico crashed yesterday after take-off from the "General Guadalupe Victoria" international airport of Durango, in the route for the capital... more
AccidentsMH370 report: "The turn? We can not exclude an external intervention"
Without the black boxes it will remain impossible to understand the reasons for this accident - ATTACHMENT
The mystery on the flight Malaysia Airlines 370 -operated with a Boeing B-777/200ER aircraft connecting Kuala Lumpur and Beijing and which disappeared on March 8, 2014- will remain long, because even in... more
AccidentsSu-22 aircraft of Vietnam Air Force crashes
The circumstances are still unknown; the two occupants died
The surrounding and the details of the incident that took place today on a Su-22 aircraft (variant for the export of the Soviet-built fighter-bomber Su-17) of the Vietnam Air Force are still unknown. The... more
AccidentsParaguay: plane crash with the Minister of Agriculture on board
The wreckage was found completely destroyed
Mystery in Paraguay where yesterday a Beechcraft Baron BE58 aircraft -with ZP BEU registration- disappeared with on board the pilots and two important passengers in the politics of the South American State,... more
AccidentsPretoria: the video of the incident on Youtube
Online the images of the last moments of the Convair 340 -VIDEO
It's online on Youtube a video of the Pretoria incident of last July 11, where a Convair 340 crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport, causing the death of two people on board and the wounding of... more
AccidentsCuba: for the Global Air the accident was caused by the pilots
A human error at the base of the crash that caused 112 victims
The incident of the Boeing 737/200 airplane which caused the death of 112 people -only one passenger survived the crash- last May in Cuba was caused by a pilot error. This was established by investigations... more
AccidentsKorea: helicopter crashes, 5 people died
Accident occurred during flight tests
A KAI (Korean Aerospace Industries) MUH-1 Marineon helicopter from the armed forces of South Korea crashed today at the naval base inside the port of Pohang, in the south-east of the Korean peninsula,... more
AccidentsSuper Puma helicopter incident: the final report of the Norwegian investigation published
To cause it the fatigue failure of the gearbox -ATTACHMENT
On 5th of July it was published the final report of the Norwegian investigation authority on accidents (AIBN) concerning the 2016 accident involving the Airbus EC-225 LP Super Puma helicopter where all... more
AccidentsPoland: Mig-29 aircraft crashes, the pilot died
As a precaution, the fighters of Polish Air Force are grounded
This night a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed and it caused the pilot's death. The fighter had taken-off from the Air Base of Malbork when shortly after the take-off fell to the... more
AccidentsIndia. C-90 King Air aircraft crashes: 5 victims, one at the ground
Approaching the runway after a post-maintenance flight -2 VIDEO
A Beechcraft C-90 King Air aircraft registration VT-UPZ while it approached this morning (1:30pm local time) the Juhu Airport runway, a suburb of Mumbai, India, from which it had taken off for a post-maintenance... more
AccidentsPakistan: Chengdu FT-7PG plane crash
National Air Force trainer, Paf. Two victims
A Chengdu FT-7PG Pakistan Air Force trainer airplane, Paf, crashed today as it was landing at the Peshawar Airport Air Base, Pakistan. On board two soldiers, a captain and a pilot officer, both died. A... more
AccidentsBurning tugboat at Frankfurt Airport: airplane damaged
Ten airport's workers intoxicated by smoke-VIDEO
Yesterday a tugboat caught fire causing damage to the Lufhtansa Airbus A-340-313 (registration: D-AIFA) at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany. The plane, in preparation for flight LH426 to Philadelphia (United... more
AccidentsBulgaria, military helicopter crashes
Two of the three occupants died
A Mil Mi-17 military helicopter operated by the Bulgarian Air Force crashed yesterday at 8:30 pm (local time) at the Krumovo Air Base near Plovdiv in Southern Bulgaria during a training flight. The incident,... more
AccidentsAmerican F-15 fighter plane crashes into the sea off Okinawa
Pilot rescued by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force helicopter
An American USAF (United States Air Force) 18th Wing F-15 fighter plane crashed into the sea off the Okinawa Japanese island today at 6:25 am (local time) during a training flight.According to what the... more
AccidentsFly Sax plane crash in Kenya: no survivors
The occupants' bodies and the aircraft's black box were found
No survivors among the 10 occupants of the private Fly Sax plane Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (registration: 5Y-CAC) disappeared from the radar on June 5th in the afternoon and crashed in the Aberdare mountain... more
AccidentsKenya: Fly Sax private plane disappears, wreckage discovered this morning
Still no news about the ten occupants
The wreckage of the Fly Sax private plane Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (registration: 5Y-CAC) that disappeared from the radar on June 5th was discovered this morning in the Aberdare Range in Kenya. The aircraft... more
AccidentsDisappeared Malaysia aircraft: the private research operation ends
Voice370 asks the Malaysian government for a review of the case
The research of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing B-777/200ER plane (flight MH370), took off from Kuala Lampur (Malaysia) and headed to Beijing will end soon. The plane disappeared on March 8th 2014, with 239... more
AccidentsShot down Malaysia aircraft: the Russian arms industry experiment
Lavrov: "the missile could not have been launched from that area"
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov, the missile used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines B-777/200 airliner (MH17 flight) taken off from Amsterdam (Holland) and headed to Kuala Lampur... more
AccidentsMalaysia Airlines plane: the MH17 flight was shot down by a Russian missile
The international investigation's results
According to the international press referring to the investigation team, the Buk anti-aircraft missile which on July 17th, 2014 had shot down the B-777/200 airliner, Malaysia Airlines' MH17 scheduled... more
AccidentsOne of the three survivors of the plane crash in Havana died
Grettel Landrove was 23 years old
The number of the victims of the plane crash that occurred last Friday in Havana, Cuba, rises to 111 (see for details AVIONEWS article connected). The 23 year-old Grettel Landrove had been hospitalized... more
AccidentsPlane crashed in Havana: ex-pilot reports deficiencies in the safety system
Poor maintenance and lack of spare parts
Interviewed by the local newspaper "Milenio" and the Mexican newspaper "El Universal", Marcus Aurelius Hernandez Carmona, ex-pilot from the Mexican airline Damojh Aerolíneas/Global Air explained that... more