A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow. All those on board are thought to have died, officials told Russian media. The An-148 was en … Read more
A US military plane crashed into a field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people on board and spreading debris for miles, officials said. The Leflore county emergency management agency’s director, Frank Randle, told reporters at a late briefing that 16 bodies had been recovered after the KC-130 spiralled into the ground about 85 … Read more
Venus Williams was able to focus on Wimbledon despite her involvement in a recent fatal car crash as the five-time champion beat Elise Mertens 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 in the first round on Monday. Williams is being sued by the estate of an elderly Florida man who died last month after his vehicle was hit by … Read more
Eight people were killed after an Indonesian search and rescue helicopter crashed, a senior official said Monday, the latest aviation accident in the country. The Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency’s helicopter was carrying four rescuers and four Navy crew when it crashed into a cliff in Temanggung in central Java on Sunday. All eight bodies … Read more
The US and Japan were conducting a major search operation Saturday to find seven missing American sailors after their navy destroyer collided with a much larger container ship, crushing the side of the military vessel. Planes, boats and helicopters scoured the seas off Japan’s Pacific coast in a bid to find the crew who disappeared … Read more
The US and Japan were conducting a major search operation Saturday to find seven missing American sailors after their navy destroyer collided with a much larger container ship, crushing the side of the military vessel. Planes, boats and helicopters scoured the seas off Japan’s Pacific coast in a bid to find the crew who disappeared … Read more
At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in … Read more
It was 80 years ago on Saturday that a radio announcer uttered the words “Oh, the humanity!” into a microphone as the German airship Hindenburg burst into flames. The crash at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, filmed by four AP news agency crews on the scene, killed 35 of the 97 people on … Read more
Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in north Wales. Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in north Wales. A massive air and land search was launched on Wednesday after the aircraft vanished en route from Luton to Dublin. Supt Gareth Evans of North Wales Police said on Thursday the … Read more
All nine people aboard a helicopter that crashed during a mountain rescue drill in Japan over the weekend were killed, police said Monday. Six bodies were found in the morning inside the wreckage in the central prefecture of Nagano, a Nagano police spokesman told AFP. Three others, including the pilot, were confirmed dead on Sunday … Read more
More than 100 people were reportedly injured on Monday evening in a train accident in the South African city of Pretoria. The News24 portal reported that the train accident at the Rossyln station occured when two coaches collided. They quoted spokesperson for an ambulance service who stated that no fatalities hade been recorded. ‘‘About 90% … Read more
A Taiwan bus taking elderly local tourists home from visiting seasonal cherry blossoms careered off a highway Monday night leaving 32 dead, in the island’s worst road accident in decades. It comes after a bus inferno in July last year killed 25 Chinese holidaymakers on board, and is the latest in a series of deadly … Read more
A tractor trailer barreled into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. Witnesses said shoppers screamed and dropped packages and glasses of mulled wine as the truck plowed into the market. Officials are investigating the crash as an act of terrorism, according to a German intelligence … Read more
A resolution is being presented to the UN General Assembly asking for a special investigator to look into the 1961 plane crash that killed then UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. The plane went down over what is now Zambia during a diplomatic mission to help broker a ceasefire in the Congolese civil war. Pilot error … Read more
Dozens of coffins carrying those killed when a plane flying Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team crashed into a Colombian mountain were loaded onto Brazilian air force planes for their final journey home on Friday. The disaster on Monday killed 71 people and shocked soccer fans the world over. The LAMIA Bolivia BAe146 airliner apparently ran out … Read more
Three players, two crew members and one journalist survived, Colombian authorities said. Just before LaMia Flight 2933 crashed into a hillside near Medellin, Colombia, a crew member onboard told air traffic controllers, “The plane is in total electric failure and without fuel,” according to two sources familiar with the investigation who heard audio recordings. The … Read more
As air safety officials begin their investigation into the deadly crash of LAMIA flight 2933 near Medellin, Colombia, the final resting place of the jet’s wreckage may prove to be a central clue in determining why the airplane crashed. The crash killed at least 71 people during a charter flight to Medellin, including members of … Read more
A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia, officials say. Reports say there are six survivors. The plane reported electrical problems. The chartered aircraft, flying from Bolivia, was carrying members of the Chapecoense football team, airport officials said. The team … Read more
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Sunday pledged to investigate the causes of a rail crash that killed at least 75 people, as rescue workers scoured wreckage for more bodies. The packed passenger train carrying more than 1,400 people between the capital Yaounde and the central African country’s port city of Douala derailed on Friday near … Read more
A high profile delegation made up of the King and Queen of Ashanti people in the Netherlands, Nana Kwesi Nyanin Ayebiafo 1 and Nana Akosua Kusiwaah 1, Deputy Head of Mission of the Ghana Embassy, The Hague, Ms Doris A. D Brese, Chairman Mr Charles Vanderpuye and Vice Chairman of Representative Council of Ghanaian Organisations … Read more