Taiwan Acquits Two Over Deadly 2014 TransAsia Crash

Two air traffic control officers accused of causing a plane crash in Taiwan that killed 49 people in 2014, the island’s worst air disaster for a decade, were acquitted Friday. The TransAsia Airways flight was carrying 54 passengers and four crew when it smashed into trees and houses as it attempted to land in a … Read more

32 Dead In Taiwan’s Worst Highway Accident For Decades

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

Air Algerie Plane Disappears an Hour after Takeoff

Air Algerie’s Flight AH 5017, which took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso en route to Algeria’s Houari Boumedene Airport has disappeared. The flight that had 116 people on board comprising 110 passengers and 6 crew members is believed to have crashed in Tilmesi, Mali. According to an Air Algerie representative the plane had on its … Read more