Tag: aircraft crash

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Protests in Iran against ayatollahs, “Clerics get lost”; five nations to discuss legal actions over downed Ukrainian airplane

  

  Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the country’s clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 01:22 UTC

  The aircraft crash in Antarctica that shocked New Zealand for forty years

  

  It remains New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster. On 28 November 1979, a sightseeing aircraft carrying 257 people crashed head-on into the side of a volcano in Antarctica.