Plane Crash
Russia: The entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team died in plane crash
September 08, 2011A Russian airliner carrying a top local ice-hockey team north of Moscow has crashed, killing 43 and leaving two critically injured. The Yakovlev-42 passenger plane that was bound for the Belarusian capital of Minsk crashed when it failed to gather enough...
Caribbean Airlines Flight 523: No victims after air crash in Guyana (VIDEO)
August 01, 2011Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- A Caribbean Airlines plane in South America's Guyana heading to New York, after leaving the runway in rainy weather and slipping through a chain fence, got into a ravine and broke in two shortly after takeoff on Saturday,...
8 lucky survivors, 158 dead in Air India plane crash (video)
May 22, 2010By Anjana Pasricha An Air India passenger plane has crashed while trying to land in southern India, killing about 158 people on board. It is the worst air accident in India in over a decade. The plane crashed as it overshot the runway after landing...
Plane crash in Libya kills 103, 8-year old Dutch boy the only survivor
May 12, 2010A Libyan passenger plane has crashed in the capital, Tripoli, killing 103 people and leaving one survivor. Libyan security officials say the Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed Wednesday morning, as it was attempting to land at the Tripoli airport after...
Debris from the Ethiopian Airlines plane washed up on the coast
January 26, 2010At least 90 feared dead in Ethiopian Airline crash off Beirut. The Boeing 737 crashed after take off and fell into the Mediterranean in a ball of fire Rescuers are searching the waters off Lebanon for the 90 passengers and crew of an Ethiopian Airlines...
Iranian Plane Crashes, All 168 on Board Believed Dead
July 15, 2009Iranian state media say a passenger plane has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people on board. State television said Wednesday the Iranian airliner was heading to the Armenian capital of Yerevan when it went down near the northern Iranian...
Air France jet of Flight 447 'broke on impact'
July 02, 2009French investigators trying to find out why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the air. They also found that the plane's speed sensors had been "a factor but not the cause"...
Survivor speaks of Yemenia Air plane crash
July 02, 2009A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink. Baya Bakari told her father, from a hospital in the Comoros Islands, that she heard voices around her...
Sole Survivor of Comoros Crash Arrives in Paris
July 02, 2009The only known survivor of this week's Yemeni airliner crash off Comoros has arrived in Paris on a government plane. Bahia Bakari, 14, landed Thursday and was met by her father at the airport. He told reporters he is happy to see his daughter, but sad...
Yemen Airline Crash Near Comoros, Child Found Alive
June 30, 2009A Yemeni airliner has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoros, with 153 people on board. Officials say one survivor, a child, has been rescued. The bodies of three other people were also recovered. Officials from Yemenia Air say the...