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AccidentsEMERGENCY LANDING TO LAHORE
PAKISTAN, A turboprop engine passengers aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines had problems during approach to Lahore airport to pull out the landing gear. It effectued an emergency landing in... more
AccidentsSUSPECTED BOMB STOPS AIR TANZANIA FLIGHT FOR FOUR HOURS
ENTEBBE, UGANDA, Uganda Civil Aviation office has revealed that a Boeing 737 jetliner operated by Air Tanzania was stopped on Entebbe International Airport for almost four hours last week due to an... more
AccidentsAIRCRAFT REMOVED FROM SITE CRASH IN NORTHEN MESSICO
MESSICO CITY, Authorities removed on Sunday aircraft slid off runway and recovered flight data recorder.The plane from Messico City was landing at 5 p.m. to Reynosa airport when it smashed into 2 cars... more
AccidentsEMERGENCY LANDING FOR A MD-80 IN UTAH
UTAH, USA, A MD-80 jetliner operated by American Airlines heading from Denver to Los Angeles, has made an emergency landing at a small airport in southern Utah after experiencing dense smoke in the cockpit... more
AccidentsLOS ANGELES AIRPORT: COLLISION BETWEEN UNITED AIRLINES 747 AND A MAINTENANCE VAN.
LOS ANGELES, Thursday afternoon three workers were injured in an accident involving a maintenance van and a United 747. The van was striken by a engine of the jet during the takeoff. The three workers... more
AccidentsPRISTINA AIRCRASH DUE TO HUMAN AND TECHNICAL ERRORS
LONDON, The Inquiry Commission about the Sifly's ATR-42 air crash occurred on November 12 1999 has drawn the conclusion and it attributed the crash to "a combination of human and technical errors" in particular... more
AccidentsELEPHANT ON THE RUNWAY HELD UP AIRLINER
INDIA, An indian airliner, before landing, had to circle the airport until an elephant on the runway was scared off. The wild animal entered the airport at Gauthy in Assam after breaking through a... more
AccidentsBLAZE IN THE COCKPIT FORCES AIRCFRACT TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING
ALABAMA, USA, A blaze broken out in the cockpit of a Continental Airlines plane forced the pilot to make an emergency landing at International airport of Birmingham, Alabama. The flight 1579, a DC-9 aircraft,... more
AccidentsUS NAVY STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR KILLED IN AIR CRASH
ALABAMA, USA, A US Navy single-engine T-34C Turbo Mentor crashed last September 27 near Silverhill, Alabama. The student and the flight instructor were killed. The names of the victims were not reported.... more
AccidentsREAL FIRE DURING MOCK DISASTER DRILL
NEWARK, NEW YORK, A real explosion and subsequent fire was occurred in a FedEx building in the Newark Airport, while a mock disaster drill was going on outside. Two workers have been affected by fire,... more
AccidentsUS NAVY F/A 18-C CRASHES IN GULF
USA, A single-seat US Navy fighter jet has crashed in the Gulf shortly after taking off from the Lincoln aircraft carrier. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The FA/18-C Hornet, arrived on... more
AccidentsALARM THREAT ON FLIGHT ATHENS-NEW YORK
ROME, False alarm threat for an Olympic Airways jetliner, carrying 294 passengers, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Fiumicino airport. A man called the greek airline's office to inform... more
AccidentsHIJACKER KILLED AFTER THE PLANE LANDED
PEKING, A hijacker was killed in northern China after the plane landed. The man was stabbed by a security agent. The Peking bound Boeing 737 of "Xinhua Airlines" landed safely at Jinan. The hijacker was... more
AccidentsEMERGENCY MANOEUVRE FOR REAL MADRID PLAYERS' PLANE
MADRID, The players of Real Madrid went through an air scare when their jet lost cabin pressure and dived more than 15.000 feet. Iberia' Boeing 757, flying from Nantes to Dusseldorf, made that manoeuvre... more
AccidentsHIJACKER ARRESTED AFTER CHANGING HIS MIND
JORDAN, An iraqi terrorist tried to hijack a plane of Royal Jordanian but was arrested after he changed his mind and surrendered. The plane, carrying 119 people, landed safely at Amman. He said he was... more
AccidentsFIREFIGTHING HELICOPTER CRASH IN NEVADA
MONTELLO, NEVADA, The crash of the Bell LongRanger occurred shortly after takeoff at Montello, Nev., northeast of the northern Nevada town of Elko. A passenger died, another one was reported injured, the... more
AccidentsHIJACK FOILED ON A FOKKER 100 HEADED TO TEHERAN
TEHERAN, A Fokker 100, flying from Shiraz to Teheran and carrying 30 foreigners was near to be hijacked by a gunman threatening to set the plane on fire. Fortunately he was captured by security men. The... more
AccidentsEIGHT DIED IN HELICOPTERS COLLISION
SWITZERLAND, Eight tourists were killed in the collision of two helicopters occurred over the community of Beuson, three miles south-west of Sion. Four tourists were seriously injured. Both helicopters... more
AccidentsAIR INDIA PLANE FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING
NEW DELHI, A strong turbolence forced an Air India plane, carryng 187 passenger and 11 crew members, to make an emergency landing. The jetliner took off from Chenay in southern India and was headed to... more
AccidentsEMERGENCY LANDING AT CRETE AIRPORT
CRETE, GREEK, A passenger jet, a Boeing 757, with 238 people has landed safely at the Iraklion airport, on Greece's southern island of Crete, after an explosion, briefly after take-off, has damaged... more
AccidentsTHAI AIRWAYS ORDERED TO PAY DAMAGES TO VICTIM'S FAMILY
TOKYO, The Tokyo District Court ordered Thai Airways International yesterday to pay nearly USD$321,000 to the family of a Japanese victim of a 1992 plane crash in Nepal. The court ruled that Thai Airways... more
AccidentsFIRE IN A MILITARY BASE HANGAR: THREE FIGHTERS DAMAGED
MOSCOW, Three Sukhoi-24 fighters were seriously damaged by a fire broke out in an hangar of the military base of Pushkin, nearby St. Peterburg, where the aircrafts had to be repaired. Sources of Ministry... more
AccidentsCUBAN PLANE CRASHED; "THEY STOLE ANTONOV, SO THEY MUST BE REPATRIATED"
HAVANA, A cuban official defined the survivors "criminals", asking for them repatriation. "They committed a crime stealing the plane, so they have to be sent back as it is specified in the international... more
AccidentsSURVIVORS OF CUBAN PLANE CRASHED BROUGHT TO U.S.
KEY WEST, Eight of the nine cuban survivors of the air crash have arrived to Key West, the island off Florida sea, with a U.S. Coastguard ship. The risk is the repetion of a diplomatic incident as it occurred... more
AccidentsCUBAN PLANE CRSASHED: RUNAWAY NOT HIJACKING
NEW YORK, There was no hijacker on the small cuban plane which sank in the sea off Florida two days ago. Aboard there was only a group of people, trying to escape from Castro's regime for desperation... more
AccidentsA RUSSIAN AIR-DEFENCE MISSILE CRASHED NEAR LAUCH SITE
ASHULUK, RUSSIA, A Russian air-defence missile crashed near lauch site in the Ashuluk training grounds in the Astrakhan region, 800 miles south of Moscow, but fortunately, failed to explode at impact.... more
AccidentsCHIRAC: "FULL COLLABORATION WITH ITALY ABOUT USTICA DISASTER"
PARIS, Jacques Chirac pledged full collaboration with italian justice in the inquiry about Ustica's disaster after the meeting italian premier Giuliano Amato. France always said no french plane was close... more
AccidentsGERMAN MINSTER OF FEREIGN AFFAIRS' PLANE FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING
BERLINO, Luftwaffe's Airbus, belonging to german ministry of Defense, was forced to make an emergency landing for an avionics failure. No passenger was injured. The jetliner was carrying even the german... more
AccidentsCRASHED CUBAN PLANE: NINE SURVIVORS
NEW YORK, A running out of fuel or a uncorrect manoeuvre during the hijack. these could be the reasons of the cuban plane crashed into the sea off the cuban coast. Nine survivors and a dead body have been... more
AccidentsHIJACKED CUBAN PLANE CRASHES INTO THE SEA
MIAMI, A hijacked plane carrying 14 people has crashed into the sea of Florida. The new was reported by Cnn. The sea aircraft, a russian made Antonov, was hijacked and therefore had only one and half hours'... more
AccidentsFLORENCE AIRPORT: LANDING GEAR FAILURE FOR AN AIR FRANCE PLANE
FLORENCE, The malfunction of one of the two landing gears forced an Air France plane to make an animated landing at Vespucci airport of Florence. The flight AF 1216 was coming from Charles de Gaulle aiport... more
AccidentsFOUR KILLED IN ALASKA PLANE CRASH
ALASKA, A small plane has crashed while landing at the Nuiqsut airport on Alaska's North Slope, killing four of the 10 people aboard. The six survivors were taken by helicopter to hospitals in Barrow,... more
AccidentsLUFTHANSA AIRBUS FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING IN PALERMO
PALERMO, An Airbus 321, flying from Malta to Frankfurt, was forced to make an emergency landing at Falcone-Borsellino aiport of Palermo for a failure. The pilot of the plane, carrying 119 passengers, asked... more
AccidentsGORDON HURRICANE THREATENING A SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH RAMP
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Gordon, the hurricane that killed 19 people in Guetemala, showing its dangerousness, and then moved to Florida, gave trubles to Nasa, because of the Space Shuttle Discovery standing... more
AccidentsUAV PREDATOR CRASHES IN USA
NELLIS, NEVADA, A U.S. Air Force unmanned aereal vehicle (UAV) crashed into Nellis base during an exercise named Joint Expeditionary Forces. This aircraft is used to collect tactical data about enemy territory... more
AccidentsSTRANGLED BY PASSENGERS AFTER FLYING INTO RAGE
SALT LAKE CITY, The case was dated August 11, but it was recently dismissed by Utah's judges for "self-defense". Jonathan Burton, 19 years old, died shortly after a Southwest Airlines aircraft landing.... more
AccidentsSALOMON ISLANDS: AIRCRAFT HIJACKED BY ISATABU REBELS
BRISBANE, A group of rebels, belonging to the Isatabu Freedom Movement, fighting against Malaita rivals, reputed immigrants, hijacked a small plane forcing the pilot to fly to a guerrilla base. There were... more
AccidentsAIRCRAFT CRASHES IN GERMANY, FOUR KILLED
LEIMEN, Four people, two men and two women, were killed after their aircraft crashed in a wood near Leimen, in the german land of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The small plane took off from Nurberg, in Bavaria,... more
AccidentsSRI LANKA: HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS 15 PEOPLE
SRI LANKA, An helicopter crashed on saturday morning in the east of Sri Lanka, 40 miles east of Colombo. The Ports Minister MHMH Mohammed Ashraff was among the 15 victims. Police ruled out the possibility... more
AccidentsUKRAINE: VICE-MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR CRASHES DURING AN AIR SHOW
MOSCOW, General Leonid Borodic, ukranian vice-minister off the Interior, crashed during an air show in Kiev. Hundreds of people saw Borodic, an experienced pilot, crashing down during an aerobatic evolution... more
AccidentsQATAR AIRWAYS HIJACKER FEARED TO BE EXTRADITED TO IRAQ
DUBAI, The hijacker of Qatar Airways Airbus A-300 flying to Amman and carrying 144 people, 133 passengers + 11 crew members, was in trouble with iraqi justice. The plane had to land at jordan capital city... more
AccidentsHIJACKED QATARY AIRWAYS PLANE, HIJACKER SURRENDERS
RIAD, The hijacker surrendered when the aircraft landed at Hael, 400 km north of Riad. Al Jaazera, Qatar tv channel, reported the hijacker was an iraqui citizen who surrendered to authorities. The aircraft... more
AccidentsBOMB THREAT ON PAKISTAN LEADER'S PLANE
NEW YORK, A jet carrying Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf was forced to return to John F Kennedy International Airport in New York after a bomb threat. The Boeing 747 of Pakistan International Airlines,... more
AccidentsMASS EXORCISM AT INDIAN CRASH SITE
INDIA, A mass exorcism is taking place near the site of the air crash in India, to get rid of the ghosts of the victim still haunting the area, as Gardanibagh residents said. Sixty people died in the crash.... more
AccidentsPILOT COLLAPSES WHILE LANDING
TOKYO, A pilot of a regional japanese flight collapsed while landing at Saga airport when the aircraft, an Airbus A-320, was standing 300 metres far from the ground. The immediate intervention of the co-pilot... more
AccidentsFORTY PEOPLE INTOXICATED BY FUMES AT AIR TERMINAL
SYDNEY, A few days before the beginning of Sydney Olympic Games the airport of the australian capital city was scene of an accident giving officials a lot of worries. Forty people were intoxicated... more
AccidentsTWO AIRCRAFT STANDING ON THE SAME CORRIDOR BEFORE LANDING NEARLY TO COLLIDE IN OSLO
OSLO, NORWAY, Two aircrafts stood on the same corridor during landing mnouvre and an automatic alarm system prevented a disastrous crash. It occurred at Oslo airport last friday involving two Sas aircrafts,... more
Accidents747 ENGINE EXPLOSION DAMAGES BUILDINGS
JAKARTA, The large burst part of the engine fallen down from a Japan Airlines Boeing 737, flying from Indonesia to Tokio, crashing in the suburbs of Jakarta, damaged 16 houses, but nobody was injured.... more
AccidentsMD-80 MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING AT DALLAS AIRPORT
DALLAS, USA, An American Airlines MD-80 made an emergency landing at Dallas Forth Worth International Airport after the pilot stopped an engine because of an unproper working of lubricating system as signalled... more
AccidentsEMERGENCY LANDING AFTER PLANE'S ENGINE FAILS
USA, An America West Airline aircraft carryng 100 people made an emengency landing at Sky Harbor International Airport. The Boeing 757 flying from San Francisco to Phoenix had an engine shut down when... more