Tag: accident

• Saturday, March 9th 2019 - 19:16 UTC

  Colombia: Plane crash leaves a dozen dead

  

  A DC-3 model aircraft with registration number HK2494 that had been declared in emergency fell on Saturday to land in the center-east of Colombia after not finding where to land, local media reported.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Hundreds pay tribute to Leicester City owner who died in helicopter crash

  

  Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's wife and son have joined the English Premier League outfit's players and hundreds of fans at the club's stadium to pay tribute to the victims of a helicopter crash which killed Mr. Srivaddhanaprabha and four people.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  Australia calls off search for woman that fell overboard from P&O Pacific Dawn

  

  Australian authorities have called off a search for a woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Coral Sea. The passenger fell from the Pacific Dawn about 16:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Thursday, about 300km west of New Caledonia.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 10:05 UTC

  “2017 was the safest year for aviation ever”

  

  Airlines recorded zero accident deaths in commercial passenger jets last year, according to a Dutch consulting firm and an aviation safety group that tracks crashes, making 2017 the safest year on record for commercial air travel. Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 and the Aviation Safety Network both reported there were no commercial passenger jet fatalities in 2017.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 21:16 UTC

  BlackBerry outage sees traffic accidents plummet in Abu Dhabi and Dubai

  

  Police in Abu Dhabi and Dubai said the number of reported traffic accidents plunged during the recent three-day BlackBerry outage. In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20% from average rates on the days BlackBerry users were unable to use its messaging service. In Abu Dhabi the drop was steeper, 40% and there were no fatal accidents.

• Friday, September 16th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Second bus-train accident in Buenos Aires leaves 90 people injured

  

  A collision between a bus, cement truck and a pre-metro (lightrail) train injured 90 people on Thursday during morning rush hour traffic in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, according to police.

• Friday, September 16th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Norwegian coastal cruise catches fire: 2 dead and dozens injured

  

  Two people have died in a fire that broke out in the engine room of a Norwegian fjord cruise ship, forcing hundreds to evacuate and injuring up to a dozen. The ferry had 262 people on board, of which roughly 200 were passengers.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Chilean military plane with 21 people crashes near Juan Fernandez Island

  

  A military plane with 21 people aboard went missing off Chile's Pacific coast near the Juan Fernandez Islands, authorities said on Friday.

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Second body recovered from Air France mid Atlantic wreckage

  

  French police said a second body has been removed from the underwater wreckage of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago. A remote-controlled submarine raised a body that was still strapped into an airline seat some 3,900 metres to the water's surface Friday.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 05:37 UTC

  Tail section of Air France plane located on the Atlantic bed 4 km down

  

  The tail section of an Air France plane which crashed over the Atlantic in 2009 has been found on the ocean floor, relatives of those killed have said. Investigators had told them the section was “relatively intact”, they added.