Tag: accident

• 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.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 09:09 UTC

  “Miracle” in Colombia: Lightning downs aircraft: one dead, 114 injured

  

  A Boeing 737-700 from Colombian air carrier Aires operating as Flight 8250 from Bogota Eldorado Airport to San Andres Island in the Caribbean split into three pieces on landing after being struck by lightning, according to statements from Colombia’s national police.

• Friday, May 14th 2010 - 01:22 UTC

  Indian Sub-Submersible Gas Rig Sinks off the Coast of Venezuela

  

  Aban Offshore (BOM:523204), India’s largest offshore drilling and oil field services provider, suffered a major setback on Thursday, when its gas platform Pearl sunk off the coast of Venezuela. This was one of Aban’s biggest money spinning rig earning 358,000 US dollars a day.