Tag: plane crash

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 15:03 UTC

  Pilot working to extinguish a fire in Chile died after crashing on a highway

  

  A Spanish pilot lost his life on Monday when the firefighting plane he was operating crashed in the central Maule region, as reported by the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) of Chile.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 20:51 UTC

  Four killed in plane crash in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Four people were killed after an ambulance aircraft crashed upon takeoff from the airport in Río Grande, in the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego, Friday afternoon.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 18:00 UTC

  Chinese airliner crashes with 132 people on board

  

  A US-built Boeing 737-800 belonging to China Eastern Airlines crashed Monday in the southern province of Guangxi, presumably killing all 132 people on board instantly, in what has become the worst civilian air disaster in the country since 2010.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  All acquitted in Austral Fray Bentos crash probe

  

  Argentina's Federal Oral Court number five Thursday acquitted all those under investigation for the 1997 fall of an Austral Douglas DC-9-32 in the Uruguayan city of Fray Bentos.

• Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine private plane falls down on approach to Punta del Este killing two

  

  An Argentine-registered single-engined aircraft fell Sunday in the Sierras de las Ánimas, in the Uruguayan department of Maldonado, near Punta del Este. Both occupants died.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 04:06 UTC

  People killed in large commercial airline crashes higher in 2020 than 2019

  

  The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50%, a Dutch consulting firm said.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Pakistani Airbus with 99 passengers crashes in Karachi district: at least 80 killed

  

  A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus jet with 99 people aboard crashed into a crowded residential district of the city of Karachi on Friday afternoon after twice trying to land at the airport, a witness said.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Two Argentine pilots survive crash landing in Costa Rica's capital

  

  Two Argentine pilots survived when their light aircraft crash landed on Friday in a heavily populated area of the capital of Costa Rica, officials said. The pilots climbed out of the wreckage of the plane after it came down in the Pavas neighborhood of San Jose, in an area full of homes and schools, witnesses and officials said.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Russian plane crash-land in Moscow airport kills 41, and 37 survive

  

  Forty-one people died on Sunday in the Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crash at Sheremetyevo Airport, Yelena Markovskaya, spokesperson for the Moscow interregional transport investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee, told reporters.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Boeing admits the anti-stall system was a factor in the crash of Ethiopian Flight

  

  The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month nosedived several times before it hit the ground, a preliminary report has said. Pilots “repeatedly” followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report.