Tag: plane crash

• 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.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Boeing told by FAA to try harder in improving the 737 MAX software

  

  Boeing must perform more work on its proposed fix to 737 MAX aircraft before it can be submitted for review, US officials said on Monday, suggesting the planes could stay grounded a while longer. Additional work is needed “to ensure that Boeing has identified and appropriately addressed all pertinent issues,” a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said in a statement.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 23:12 UTC

  Ethiopian airline crash confirms malfunctioning of Boeing's anti stall system, reports Wall Street Journal

  

  Details have begun to emerge of the final moments of an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed three weeks ago. An anti-stalling system on the plane, a Boeing 737 Max, has been blamed for the disaster which killed all 157 people on board.

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Boeing says it has made changes to the control systems linked to fatal crashes

  

  Boeing has issued changes to controversial control systems linked to two fatal crashes of its 737 Max planes in the last five months. But it's still not certain when the planes, that were grounded worldwide this month, will be allowed to fly. Investigators have not yet determined the cause of the accidents.

• 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.