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AccidentsBoeing B-17G-30-BO historic aircraft crashes in the USA
Dead seven people
A Boeing B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress aircraft registration N93012 crashed yesterday in Connecticut, USA and today it was confirmed that the accident caused the death of seven people and wounded six others.... more
AccidentsCessna 208B plane crashed in Tanzania
Two victims
Today on September 23, 2019 a Cessna 208B Caravan plane, EX 5H-AAM registration crashed in Tanzania near the Seronera airport from which it took off causing the death of the pilot and a passenger. Directed... more
AccidentsPlane crash in Russia: found the bodies of the pilots
Previously the sources had declared that they managed to escape - VIDEO
In the Stavropol territory, 38 kilometers from the south-west of Budennovsk, the bodies of the pilots of the Su-25UB aircraft were found, which crashed on September 3 during a training flight (see AVIONEWS).... more
AccidentsDebonair Beechcraft 35-B33 plane crashed in the USA
All three people die on board
On August 29 in the United States around 4 pm, the Debonair Beechcraft 35-B33 registration N9529Y crashed on the ground of an open field in St. Ignatius in Montana, probably after hitting the power line... more
AccidentsPiper PA-28 airplane crashed in Switzerland
Also a baby among the three victims
Even a newborn baby among the three dead following the crash of the Piper PA-28 RT 201 Arrow IV plane, G-BVDH registration, on Mount Sempione, in Switzerland. Crashed from about 2000 meters above sea level... more
AccidentsAirplane-helicopter collision in Mallorca: 7 dead including two children
The Spanish media: the most serious incident in the history of the Island
On Sunday, August 25th at around 1:35pm (local hour) 7 people died and two others were injured following to a collision in flight between the Bell 206L-3 Long Ranger III (D-HOTT registration) helicopter... more
AccidentsA-109C helicopter crashes in Greece
The Russian icons and two passengers died
Mikhail Abramov, Russian patron of the private museum of the Russian icon in Moscow, died on August 20 in Greece, near the island of Paros and the Galatas town, following the crash of the private helicopter... more
AccidentsRV-7A private plane crashed in Ocracoke (USA)
Fortunately no victims but two wounded
On Monday, August 19, near the airport of Ocracoke Island, in the USA, a private plane, the Van's RV-7A, registration N566WV, get from the "Johnston Regional" airport in Smithfield, crashed and landed... more
AccidentsAircraft crashes in the US
Three victims: husband, wife and their daughter
On August 8th at 6:15 am local time, a Beechcraft F-33A Bonanza model plane fell into the garden of a house in Upper Moreland, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. All three passengers died: a 60-year-old... more
AccidentsMcDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II fighter plane crashes in Iran
Save the two pilots
On 4 August 12:30 local time in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian fighter McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II crashed following a technical failure in the south of the Country, but fortunately the two pilots... more
AccidentsNo collision of planes on the Maddalena hill
These were two different incidents
On July 25 the sub-prefect of Barcelonnette, Carine Roussel, denied the news that on July 24 two tourist aircraft had collided and then fell on the Maddalena hill. In reality they were two distinct accidents... more
AccidentsMig-29 fighter plane from Azerbaijan crashed at sea
Operations are underway to attempt pilot rescue - VIDEO
On July 24 at 8:00 pm Italian time, radar contacts were suddenly lost with a MiG-29 fighter from the Azerbaijan Air Force that was carrying out a training mission during the night. The military plane would... more
Accidents35 wounded on Air Canada airplane to Australia
Emergency landing due to a heavy turbulence
An Air Canada's B-777/200LR airplane was forced into an emergency landing due to a heavy turbulence that shoved passengers up against the wall. Departed from Vancouver was on its way to Sydney, but the... more
Accidents7 dead in helicopter crash in the Bahamas
Coal magnate Chris Cline killed
Coal magnate Chris Cline's helicopter crashed in the sea of the Bahamas late yesterday afternoon. The aircraft, an AgustaWestland AW-139 registration N32CC, had departed from the island of Big Grand Cay... more
AccidentsEC-135T1 helicopter crashes in Germany
Civilian model operated for the Bundeswehr school: 1 victim, 1 seriously injured
An EC-135T1 helicopter crashed at 1:45 pm local at the edge of a forest in the German town of Aerzen, in Lower Saxony. According to preliminary information, it would be a civil aircraft used by the Bundeswehr... more
AccidentsSmall twin-engine airplane crashed in Dallas
No survivors of 10 people on board
A twin-engine airplane crashed into a hangar and caught fire yesterday morning at Dallas-Addison airport in Texas. The incident occurred at 9:11am local time. The aircraft, a Beechcraft B-300 King Air... more
AccidentsAngara Airlines' plane crashed in Russia
Save 43 of the 45 people on board
Two people died and others were injured in an accident involving an Antonov An-24RV aircraft, registration RA-47366, of Russian company Angara Airlines. The plane, which departed from Nizhneangarsk and... more
AccidentsEurofighter aircraft collision (2): one of the two pilots dead
The other was recovered alive. Both had managed to eject
More detailed information about the collision in flight between two Eurofighter fighter planes of the German Air Force Luftwaffe, which took place today at 2pm local time in northern Germany, is gradually... more
AccidentsCollision in flight for two German Eurofighter aircraft
Today in the skies of northern Germany: the two pilots took the turn -2 VIDEO
Two Eurofighter fighter planes belonging to the Luftwaffe, the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Germany, collided in the skies of Jabel, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. It happened at... more
AccidentsA man arrested for the death of Emiliano Sala
He is accused of culpable homicide
A 64-year-old man was arrested by Dorset police due to investigations on the death of footballer Emiliano Sala. "BBC" reports it. The authorities have indicated that he is suspected of involuntary manslaughter,... more
AccidentsNew York: A-109E helicopter crashes on skyscraper
Only one victim, the pilot. It is not terrorism -2 VIDEO
At around 2 pm local time yesterday on June 10 a private helicopter A-109E, registration N200BK, of the operator American Continental Properties, while it was in flight of transfer has fallen on a skyscraper... more
AccidentsGermany: balloon crashes
No victims but all 11 on board injured, two of them serious
Shortly after 9:00pm on June 4, 2019, the balloon of a private operator, D-OLAF registration, seems to have overturned due to a sudden gust of wind while the balloon was landing, a few meters from the... more
AccidentsB-737 MAX aircraft, Muilenburg (Boeing): "I apologize to the victims' family members. We failed"
On the flight software error there was a lack of communication with authorities
"I personally apologize to families: as a leader of this company it is something that strikes me directly". Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing CEO, apologizes to the families of the 346 victims killed in the two... more
AccidentsUkraine: MIL Army helicopter crashes
Four victims
A Ukrainian Mil Mi-8 military helicopter of the Army crashed last night near the village of Sestriatyn, Radyvyliv district, Rivne region, in Ukraine. The aircraft had taken off from Brody's military base... more
AccidentsHis Piper airplane falls: pop star Gabriel Diniz dies
He had left Salvador to go to his girlfriend's birthday. Three victims as a whole
The Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee Archer airplane, registration PT-KLO, on which he travelled crashed to the ground. Thus the Latin pop star Gabriel Diniz died at the age of 28. The causes of the accident occurred... more
AccidentsFor FAA the B-737 MAX aircraft will be working again within the end of June
Good news for the companies from the American regulatory authority
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration, the American regulator for aviation) would be ready to give the green light to the new certification of the B-737 MAX. The Boeing airplane will be working again within... more
AccidentsB-737 MAX aircraft: Boeing did not listen to suggestions from pilots on the MCAS
Ethiopia tragedy avoided if it did, the American Airlines union said it
In recent weeks, senior Boeing executives have repeatedly stated that the actions by the pilots of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines respectively (at the controls of the two B-737 MAX aircraft crashed in... more
AccidentsAirplane crash in Honduras: 5 tourists died
4 people were Americans; still unknown the nationality of the fifth victim - VIDEO
Five tourists died in the crash of a small plane in the Atlantic Ocean occurred yesterday near the coast of Honduras. According to reports from local authorities, the aircraft, a Piper PA-38 Cherokee Six,... more
AccidentsSSJ-100 airplane crash: preliminary investigation data processed
The first conclusions by the Investigative Committee - 2 VIDEO
The Federal Investigative Committee, established by Russian Prime Minister Medvedev shortly after Aeroflot's SSJ-100 accident at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5, processed preliminary inquiry data.... more
AccidentsAlaska: flight collision between de Havilland seaplanes
Five victims, one missing, 10 survivors, seriously injured -VIDEO
Two seaplanes (the first one a Havilland Canada DHC-3T Vazar Turbine Otter; the second a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver) with eleven (on the DHC-3) and five (on the DHC-2) occupants, were involved yesterday... more
AccidentsSSJ-100 plane crash: the black boxes recovered
The investigative committee, set up by Medvedev, at work -VIDEO
The two black boxes (actually orange in color) were recovered of the Aeroflot Superjet 100 plane and caught fire on the second emergency landing attempt on the runway of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in... more
AccidentsSSJ-100 airplane crash (5): it is a controversy on the relief efforts
The fire-fighting vehicles were not on-runway: the images say it -VIDEO
The unfortunate series of events that led to the incident in the late afternoon yesterday on a Superjet 100 aircraft of the Russian airline Aeroflot is now more or less outlined: the plane took off after... more
AccidentsSSJ-100 airplane tragedy (3): already talk on the compensating the victims
Three days of mourning declared in the region
"Aeroflot expresses its condolences to the families and friends of the killed passengers and closeness to those injured in the crash of the Moscow-Murmansk SU1492 flight. The crew of the plane has done... more
AccidentsSSJ-100 airplane tragedy (2): passenger filmed flames on the wing
A tongue of fire on the runway shows a tank breaking -VIDEO
Perhaps it will help the Investigation Commission established tonight by Russian Prime Minister Medvedev the video that started circulating on the web in these hours, showing how the left wing of Aeroflot's... more
AccidentsAeroflot's SSJ-100 airplane: 41 victims confirmed out of 78 on board
The Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport operates with only one runway - The VIDEO
A correspondent from Moscow of AVIONEWS confirms the news of the last hour about the accident verified a few hours ago at Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport, when an Aeroflot Superjet 100 aircraft, flight SU1492,... more
AccidentsJapan: F-35 aircraft wreck recovery operations soon
Flight data logger required for the investigation -DATASHEET
To find the cause of the crash of the Lockheed Martin F-35A aircraft of the Japanese air force (Jasdf) it could take a very long time, especially since the main part of the wreck is sunk in an area of... more
AccidentsJapan: an F-35A aircraft disappeared from the radar
It happens during an exercise. Research in progress
A Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter aircraft of Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) disappeared this afternoon in the Pacific Ocean, about 160 kilometers east of the city of Misawa in the north of the country.... more
AccidentsEthiopian plane crash: preliminary report released
Total revision of the anti-stall system recommended
Preliminary report on Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed on March 10 shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa was released this morning by the Ethiopian Transport Ministry, and was... more
AccidentsEgyptAir accident. "The aircraft didn't have to take off"
It emerged during a further investigation by the French Ministry of Justice
According to a report by experts from the French Ministry of Justice, the Airbus A-320/200 -registration SU-GCC- of EgyptAir crashed on May 19, 2016 during the Paris-Cairo flight should not have taken... more
AccidentsEthiopian accident: pilots would have deactivated anti-stall system
They would follow all the indications of Boeing
"The Wall Street Journal" continues to talk about Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft incident. During the investigations -the preliminary report will be published in the short term- it would... more
AccidentsEthiopian plane accident (2): report not before the next few days
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Air CEO flies to Seattle to meet Boeing
The preliminary report on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft will not be published today by the Ethiopian ministry of transport, but it will probably be done in the next few days after... more
AccidentsEthiopian accident: historic compensation claims?
It could be a blow to the industry
The requests for compensation that could arrive on the Boeing table and not only could be the biggest in the history of civil aviation, so much so that according to the broker Willis Re there could also... more
AccidentsEthiopian plane accident: anti-stall system among the causes of the disaster
It has emerged from the investigations
During the analysis of the Flight Data Recorded and the Cockpit Voice Recorder of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft of Ethiopian Airlines it would have emerged -according to the US press- that the automatic... more
AccidentsMalaysia plane: first trilateral to try to resolve case MH17
Identify who actually fired the missile
The Dutch, Australian and Russian government officials held a meeting to try to identify the person responsible for the shooting down of the Boeing B-777/200ER aircraft -with 9M-MRD registration- of Malaysia... more
AccidentsEthiopian plane accident: preliminary report will be published this week
First step towards the truth
Three weeks after the accident of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed last March 10, shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa airport, it should be published a preliminary report... more
AccidentsEthiopian accident: pilot had not been trained in the new airplane simultaneous?
It could be one of the causes of the disaster
Yared Getachew, the 29-year-old commander of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft of Ethiopian Airlines -which crashed in Addis Ababa on 10 March killing the 157 people on board-, would never have been trained... more
AccidentsTehran Airport: Fokker 100 of Iran Air lands without landing gear
Safe the 100 people on board
A Fokker F-100 aircraft -registration EP-IDG- of Iran Air carried out an emergency landing this morning at Tehran airport, where it had to touch the ground without the main landing gear, which could not... more
AccidentsEthiopian accident: in a few weeks the preliminary report
Investigators returned to Ethiopia to analyze data on black boxes
The investigators of the accident of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 plane returned to Addis Ababa this morning after recovering the information recorded in the two black boxes examined in Paris.... more
AccidentsLion Air accident: final report will be published for July?
An attempt is made to shorten the survey time
According to what was declared this morning by the director of the indonesian transport safety agency (KNKT), Indonesia is accelerating the time to complete the investigation on the aircraft crash of Lion... more
AccidentsBoeing B-737 MAX: problems also for carriers
They will have to sign "wet leasing" agreements to operate on the connections provided
The double incident within 6 months of Lion Air's and Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft could create many problems for the US company and fleet-based airlines. For the first, the greatest... more