Tag: plane crash

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 19:02 UTC

  Trump suspends Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 flights in the US

  

  The president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered on Wednesday that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 planes stop operating in the country for safety reasons of “maximum importance”.

• 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.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 16:54 UTC

  FIFA's Infantino visits Putin to discuss World Cup preparations

  

  With four months to go before the football World Cup, both Russia and FIFA want toavoid any surprises. Hence the meeting on Feb.12 between Russian President VladimirPutin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the Kremlin to discuss World Cuppreparations.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:06 UTC

  Air France’s Atlantic crash: speed probes seem to have iced reports Germany’s Spiegel

  

  Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 because of a sudden stall, the German Spiegel magazine reported Sunday citing an expert involved in analysing data from the plane's flight recorders.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 18:13 UTC

  Air France Flight 447 cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Atlantic

  

  The French aviation safety agency BEA announced on Tuesday the discovery and recovery of Air France Flight 447′s cockpit voice recorder from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly two years after the Airbus A330-200 disappeared.