Tag: plane crash

• 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.

• 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.