Accidents
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AccidentsBmi B-737 in emergency landing
London, UK - It was a pressurization failure
From what it is learned only today, a Boeing 737 operated by Bmi (British Midland), taken off from Cardiff en route to Tolouse, has been forced to an emergency landing on Saturday because of one depressurization... more
AccidentsAnother Indian Mig-21 crashes, two victims
New Delhi, India - Shortly they'll be replaced
An Indian Air Force pilot instructor and the co-pilot died after the Mig-21 on which they flew crashes near a military airport in the Indian Kashmir, during the phase of landing, but there would not be... more
AccidentsRussia jet crashes during a training flight
Moscow, Russia - Both pilots died
A spokesman of the Russian Air Force has declared two pilots died yesterday during a training flight, after their jet has crashed for causes still unknown; it seems both have not even tried to eject. The... more
AccidentsA period 1949 plane crashes, 2 died near Cambridge
London, UK - The tragedy happened during an air show
It has crashed in a field close to Duxford (near Cambridge) where an important air show was being carried out, a Royal Navy aircraft, while thousands of spectators and fans from all the world assisted... more
AccidentsA small plane sunk in Geneva lake, casualty
Geneva, Switzerland - The victim is an 11-year boy
An inexplicable tragedy that one happened on Saturday afternoon over the Geneva lake, when a small Swiss single-engine plane crashed while flying over the port of Saint Gingolph. The aircraft, with a... more
AccidentsA hellish flight for a Us C-130 plane because of a turbulence
Washington, Usa - At least 20 wounded, one in serious condition
A C-130 Hercules cargo plane of the American National Guard of West Virginia has been forced to an emergency landing at the Oceana-Virginia air base because of bad meteorological condition. The perturbation,... more
AccidentsCessna 402 crashes in Bahamas with 9 people on board
Nassau, Bahamas - One victim, the others rescued from Sar helicopters
A Cessna 402 plane operated by Air Sunshine, a Puerto Rico-based air company, has crashed yesterday 14 km off the Bahamas cost: one of the 8 passengers on board died. The aircraft took off from Fort Lauderdale-Florida... more
AccidentsSmall plane crashes in Switzerland
Granges, Switzerland - Both passenger and pilot died
They died the occupants of the small aircraft that, after having taken off today from Granges-Switzerland, en route to Straubing-Germany, crashed in a field in Argovia Canton, near Wuerenlingen. Neither... more
AccidentsMinibus involved in car crash while going to airport, 7 victims
Manchester, UK - M56 that connects the Manchester airport closed
One of the worst car tragedy that can be seen, it has been the sad comment of those rescuers arrived as soon possible on the M56 freeway, one of the most important English motorway; here the crash between... more
AccidentsThe Lockheed Martin slaughterer has been pictured as a violent man
Missisipi, Usa - A weapons lover, he had got a huge arsenal
It's not possible yet to comprise the motivations that have carried Douglas Williams, 48, dependent at the Lockheed Martin plant of Meridiam (Missisipi), to take weapons and ammunitions and slaughter his... more
AccidentsSeveral foreigns on board of the B-737 crashed yesterday in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan - The pilot had alerted that something didn't work properly
There were also 8 foreigns and the head of Sudan's Air Defense Forces, on board of the B-737 crashed yesterday just after the take off from Port Sudan, on the Red Sea. According to the first indications... more
AccidentsA Sudan Airlines B-737 crashes, 115 dead
Khartoum, Sudan - A child is the only survivor
The pilot of the B-737, just taken off from the airport of Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, had reported some problems on the aircraft to the control tower, and that's why he decided to back and land. But... more
AccidentsIt crashed an helicopter operating for Petrobas oil company
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The wreck recovered at a depth of 800 m
It sinked approximately 250 km far from Rio de Janeiro with 5 persons on board, a helicopter that operated on an oil platform of the Petrobas oil company. The incident has happened on Sunday, when the... more
AccidentsAnother Indian Air Force Mig-23 has been lost
New Delhi, India - Pilot ejected because of an undercarriege problem
"It was a planned ejection in a designated safe area. It cannot be termed as a crash" declared a spokesman of Indian Air Force. However it's the umpteenth loss of a Russian-made Mig, this time a Mig-23;... more
AccidentsA MI-8 crashes in Chechenya, victims
Grozny, Chechenya - But it's not a guerrilla's attack
A Russian helicopter MI-8 has crashed yesterday in Chechenya, costing the lives of 4 soldiers and the wounding of other 11; more precisely the incident would have taken place in the region of Kurchaloi,... more
AccidentsRussian Mig-25 crashes, no victims
Moscow, Russian - The crash near a village in the North of the country
The spokesman of the Russian Air Force, Colonel Drobyshevsky, has yesterday declared during a press conference that a Mig-25 has crashed during a training mission. The incident has taken place in the... more
AccidentsProbe starts in Scotland to identify the pilots flying under a bridge
Edimburgh, Scotland - It's the third incident of this kind in three weeks
They continue in determined way the surveyings in order to discover two airplanes have been seen yesterday while flying under a bridge, Ballachulish Bridge, in the Scottish Highlands, that connects Fort... more
AccidentsSmall plane crashes near Amazon River: victims
San Paolo, Brazil - The torrential rains the main cause
A Mitsubishi propeller twin-engine plane crashed yesterday on a desert island near the Amazon river mouth (Brazil), probably because of the torrential rains that in these hours are hammering the zone.... more
AccidentsUnmanned Japanese shuttle crashes during a test flight
Stockholm, Sweden - The landing system didn't work properly
It’s crashed in a zone in the North of Sweden, in the test center of Kiruna while performing a training flight and performing a landing maneuver, the unmanned Japanese shuttle, on which in the recent m... more
AccidentsPanic and injured during an evacuation from a Qantas jumbo
Sydney, Australia - A plane chute didn't work properly
5 passengers of QF6 flight operated by Qantas were hurt for a malfunctioning of the Boeing 747 emergency chute; indeed the airplane, coming from Frankfurt via Singapore, would have had a defect to the... more
AccidentsSaudi police helicopter crashes during a chase
Abha, Saudi Arabia - No one of the 11 agents on board has been hurt
A helicopter of the Saudi police (whose model has not been told) has crashed near mountains of the Asir province with 11 agents on board, while it was chasing in the hunting of a dangerous criminal; he’s D... more
AccidentsAlgerian C-130 crashes (2): at least 8 the victims
Algeri, Algeria - 4 civilian corpses have been found so far
They would be the at least 8 the victims because of C-130 airplane, crashed over a crowded suburb of Boufarik, 40 km south from the Capital. According to the information of a local radio there would... more
AccidentsDrug trafficker helicopter crashes with cocaine worth USD 10m
Guatemala City, Guatemala - The authorities tell about the rotor's uncoupling
A TG-Fat helicopter, flown by the Guatemalan drug traffickers for the transport of huge quantity of cocaine, has crashed yesterday evening 120 km North of the capital, in the region of Totonicapan. According... more
AccidentsBA B-777's part breaks off during flying and hit the cabin windows
London, UK - No casualties for the passengers on board have been reported
A part of the fuselage of a British Airways B-777 broke off today 15 minutes after the takeoff from the International Airport of Gatwick, smashing the back windows. According to the BA spokesman, who... more
AccidentsSar helicopter crashed in Namibia, 4 victims
Windhoek, Namibia - It had just rescued a man, enjured in a car incident
It came just few minutes ago the news about the crash of a rescue helicopter near the mountains of Namibia, in which 4 persons have died. According to the first reconstructions the aircraft would have... more
AccidentsFire at Roissy airport's room, no one was enjured
Paris, France - Delays in the afternoon have been recorded
There have been many consequences on the timetables of all the departure and arrival flights from the international airport Charles de Gaulle, because of a fire blaze up yesterday around 11:00 at Terminal... more
AccidentsIt was an Us Hercules the aircraft crashed Wednesday in Iran
Teheran, Iran - They're 30 years aging transport planes
It was a a C-130 Hercules the Iranian military aircraft crashed on Wednesday, 40 km south of Tehran, killing 7 soldiers on board (to see also AVIONEWS, 26/06/03). The transport plane had been acquired... more
AccidentsNasa solar plane crashes near Kauai island
Hawaii, Usa - It's at risk the next July flight
It's crashed on last night near the island of Kauai (Hawaii), within the testing area owned by the US Navy, an unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration),... more
AccidentsAlgerian C-130 crashes near the capital, casualties are reported
Algeri, Algeria - The incident took place near the most important Country's air base
According to what the Algerian press agency, Aps, is reporting in these minutes, a military transport plane C-130 would has crashed on the suburb of Boufarik, 40 km south of Algeri capital, where it's... more
AccidentsCzech plane landed on the freeway, 2 killed
Prague, Czech Republic - But it could be a carnage
A Z-3 airplane, with three persons on board including the pilot, has been forced to an emergency landing, yesterday night, on D1 freeway, 35 km south-east of Praga. In that moment a coach with German... more
AccidentsSmall plane crashed while spraying chemicals over fields in Russia
Moscow, Russia - Killed the pilot
A light Wilga plane crashed on last night in the region of Samara, Southern of Russia, causing the dead of the pilot, who at the moment turns out to be the only person on board. According to the first... more
AccidentsMilitary plane crashed in Iran, 7 died
Teheran, Iran - No clarification about the causes of the incident
A source of the Iranian Minister of the Interior has communicated a military airplane has crashed yesterday near the city of Robat Karim, 20 km south-west far from Tehran. On board of the aircraft, whose... more
AccidentsA tourism plane crashes in Swiss, 4 died
Bern, Switzerland - Very few the new communicated from the police
They are still poor the news care a small tourism plane that yesterday has crashed in the Friburgo canton, in the western of Swiss, and according to the declarations of the local police 4 persons would... more
AccidentsFlames from a Delta plane engine, passengers leave the aircraft in panic
Florida, Usa - Only few were lightly injured
It was a matter of that technically it is called "hot start", when flames come out from an aircraft engine in occasion of the morning flight because of the fuel condensation during the night. But about... more
AccidentsB-52 bombs, by mistake, Us soldiers during a training in the Horn of Africa
Djibouti - Also two CH-53 helicopters were damaged
An Us Marine died and other 8 were hurted as a result of a bomb uncoupled by mistake from a B-52 Stratofortress, during a training that the American military forces are leading in the small State of Djibouti,... more
AccidentsA passenger aircraft crashes in Brittany, died the pilot
Nantes, France - Three passengers are injured
A plane of the Brit Air airline, Air France's charter carrier, has crashed last night in the North West of France with 24 passengers on board, killing of the pilot and the wounding of other three persons.... more
AccidentsHelicopter crashes near Sydney suburb, two died
Sydney, Australia - It was probably a Robinson in training flight
They have not been able to do anything useful, the doctors rushed to the aid of two persons on the spot of the incident, where some minute before a helicopter had crashed, in Sydney's western suburbs.... more
AccidentsHelicopter dropped down from an oil platform
Mexico City, Mexico - It was a Bell 105
A helicopter Bell 105 crashed into the sea while trying to carry out a landing on the Mexican state-owned oil platform "Pemex", . Only the pilot, the unique person on board, died in the incident. The... more
AccidentsA Russian Mig-29UB crashed during a training flight, saved the pilots
Moscow, Russia - A special commission to investigate
It’s crashed this morning at 7:42 local time a Mig-29UB jet trainer while performing a flight test near the base of Armavir. It has been reported by the Air Force Chief Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky d... more
AccidentsIndian training jet crashes, pilots saved
New Delhi, India - A helicopter recovered the 2 injured
It's crashed yesterday in a field near the outskirts of the city of Madras, a training Deepak HPT-32 airplane, but the 2 young pilots on board were able to eject. No casualties on the ground are reported... more
AccidentsCollision of 2 planes near the Florida coast, 4 died
Florida, Usa - Vain the searches of Us Coast Guard helicopters
Helicopters of the American coastgard continue incessantly the searches in order to find eventual survivors off the coasts of Florida, where yesterday 2 Cessna aircraft have crashed, and it is feared the... more
AccidentsSightseeing chopper crashes in Hawaii killing 4
Hawaii, Usa - It was likely an engine trouble
It belonged to the Tropical Helicopters the Hughes-500 helicopter crashed on Sunday while carrying out a tourist flight over the volcano of Lilauea, in the island of Volcano, one of the many making part... more
AccidentsAN-2 crashes just after the takeoff, some injured
Moscow, Russia - Unknown the causes of the incident
They are still unknown the reasons that have caused the crash of an AN-2 airplane in the Russian province of Primorye. The incident happened at 2 pm (Moscow time, 11 am GMT) on Sunday, and according... more
AccidentsOne more incident for the Us force in Iraq, a F-16 crashed
Baghdad, Iraq - The pilot wouldn't be in life dangerous
Another stroke for the American contingent in Iraq, which today had reported the loss of an Apache helicopter, shot down under the enemy fire. This morning, at 02:30 GMT, has crashed for uncertain causes... more
AccidentsPulled down an Us AH-64 Apache, saved the 2 pilots
Baghdad, Iraq - A group of guerrillas have been localized
An AH-64 Apache combat helicopter has been pulled down from the enemy fire in the Western of Iraq, but they have been rescued the 2 pilots on board. Indeed, according to what reported by the American... more
AccidentsSearching for the missing plane
Luanda, Angola - It could be used for terroristic attacks
The American authorities are on the alert for an airplane having been missing since May 25, when it took off from the airport of Luanda in Angola en route to the Seychelles, where it has never landed.... more
AccidentsUs F-16 crashes, safe the pilot
Arizona, Usa - It belonged to Luke Air Base, the largest in the world
It crashed yesterday evening, without any concrete cause, a F-16 stationed at Luke Air Force Base of Luke while training in southern Arizona. The instructor pilot, David O' Malley, was able to eject... more
AccidentsBalloon crashed in Germany for bad weather
Moenchengladbach, Germany - Child died
Nato's cerimony in Moenchengladbach, Reno-Vestfalia, is ended yesterday in tragedy. According to German police sources, storm overtook a child while she was in a balloon swollen with helium and fastened... more
AccidentsMedical helicopter crashes near Salt Lake City, killing the pilot
Utah, Usa - It's the second incident for a helicopter of the same hospital
It's the second incident this year that involves a helicopter of the "LifeFlight", and once again has cost the life to the pilot, while other two persons, a nurse and a paramedic, have been hospitalized... more
AccidentsA small plane crashes in the Usa, unknown the consequences
Milwaukee, Usa - In that moment the hub was wrapped in the fog
It would have been the dense fog that wrapped up the airport of the Shenboygan county to cause the crash of a small private plane on Saturday evening, but it's not known neither the model of the aircraft... more