Plane Crash
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...
- Air France Replaces Speed Sensors in Long-Haul Airplanes
June 15, 2009A pilots' union official said Air France has replaced the air speed sensors on its entire fleet of long-haul A330 and A340 aircraft. An investigation into the crash of an Air France jet off the coast of Brazil has focused on the possibility that icing...
- A passenger missed Air France Flight 447 to die in car crash
June 11, 2009After narrow escape, fate catches up with Italian traveler NBC reports that Johanna Ganthaler, from Italy, was on vacation in Brazil with her husband Kurt. She missed the Air France Flight 447 when they arrived late at the airport in Rio de Janerio....
- Air France Flight 447: Relatives of a victim join jet probe
June 11, 2009Relatives of a victim of the Air France crash have joined a manslaughter investigation as a plaintiff, in an effort to access files on the case. A lawyer for the family said that some of the relatives thought information was being withheld. The Paris...
- Air France Flight 447: Brazil to begin bodies ID
June 11, 2009The first 16 bodies recovered from the scene of the Air France crash in the Atlantic ocean have been flown to the Brazilian city of Recife. The bodies were taken to the city's mortuary, where the process of identification will be carried out. A French...
- Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Continues
June 11, 2009By Laurel Bowman Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187 still not accounted for. The cause of the crash remains a mystery, but investigators are...