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Plane Crashes at Kansas Airport, Killing 4
WICHITA, Kan.—A small plane lost power after takeoff and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to a Kansas airport Thursday, killing four people, injuring five others and...
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Work Starts in Ukraine to Collect Wreckage of MH17
HRABOVE, Ukraine—Workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down. The...
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Low-Cost Culture a Risk Factor in Airline Safety
In the past few years, Southeast Asian airlines have experienced remarkable growth, driven primarily by the rapid expansion of low-cost carriers, like AirAsia. The market for flights in the region,...
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Fisherman Heard AirAsia Flight 8501 Go Down, Held Key to Finding Wreckage
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia—It was rainy that Sunday morning. The sky was thick with cloud cover and visibility was quite low. Rahmat (his only name), a 44-year-old fisherman from the village of Kampung...
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AirAsia Flight 8501 Victims Appeared to Be Holding Hands
Victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 appeared to be holding hands in the water, according to reports from Indonesian search and rescue teams. Lieutenant Airmen Tri Wibowo, a pilot flying a C130 Hercules...
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UPDATED: TransAsia Airways Plane Crash: Video Shows Airplane Accident Taipei,...
A TransAsia Airways plane with 53 people on board crashed in a river in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday (local time) shortly after takeoff, killing at least 19 people. The small aircraft, which was flying...
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TransAsia Pilots Shut Down Wrong Engine, Flight Data Indicates
In an uncommon move, Taiwan authorities have already released a printout of part of the flight data from TransAsia GE23 that crashed minutes after takeoff in Taipei on Wednesday. The data seems to...
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Could Airplane Age Be a Factor in Crash of 24-Year-Old Germanwings A320?
The Germanwings A320 that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 onboard, was 24 years old which puts the plane into the older age bracket for commercial flight. While it’s too early...
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Why Are We so Obsessed With Plane Crashes?
Even though it’s much more statistically dangerous to drive to and from your local grocery store, plane crashes—when they do happen—tend to get major news coverage and dominate the topics of...
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Pilot Suicide Crashes of Commercial Flights, Germanswings Wouldn’t Be the First
The thought that a Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed a commercial plane into the Alps killing himself and 149 others is truly harrowing. French aviation investigators related on Thursday, two days...
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Germanwings Crash: A Victim of the Deadlock Between Safety and Security Demands
It seems incredible that a pilot of a passenger airline could be locked out of the cockpit. But analysis from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from Germanwings flight 4U9525 after it ploughed into...
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After Alps Crash, Some Experts Ponder Flights Without Pilots
NEW YORK—To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots. That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight...
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Small Plane Crashes Into Mobile Homes; 2 Catch Fire
PALM SPRINGS, Fla.—A small plane plunged into a Florida mobile home park, churning up flames and a column of black smoke, and authorities said they rushed to check for an “unknown number of victims” in...
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Sinai Plane Crash: The Five Most Common Reasons for Airliner Disasters
News of any terrible air accident, such the recent crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed 224 people, instantly raises questions about aircraft safety and the threat of terrorism. But until the...
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Cargo Plane Crashes Along Nile in South Sudan, Killing 36
JUBA, South Sudan—A cargo plane carrying an added load of unregistered people crashed Wednesday morning along the banks of the Nile River after taking off from South Sudan’s capital of Juba. The crash...
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Metrojet Crash Cause Still Unclear but Could Benefit Putin
MOSCOW—No matter what caused the fatal crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt, the answer will almost certainly hit Russia hard—but not President Vladimir Putin. There’s no indication of a force-majeure...
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New Polish Gov’t Reopens Questions About 2010 Plane Crash
WARSAW, Poland—Poland’s new conservative government has shut down the website of a state investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, reopening debate over the...
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Pilot Killed in Alaska Crash Wasn’t Authorized to Fly Plane
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The pilot of a small plane that smashed into a building in downtown Anchorage on Tuesday was not authorized to fly the aircraft used in volunteer search-and-rescue missions,...
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Heavy Winds as Dubai Plane Crashes in Russia, Killing 62
MOSCOW—A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all...
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Russia: Black Boxes From Plane Crash Site Are Badly Damaged
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia—Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia but said the cockpit voice and...
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Video: 7 Dead, House in Flames After Private Plane Crashes in Brazil
The private plane of Roger Agnelli, head of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale, crashed into a residential building in San Paulo, Brazil, killing all 7 aboard, including Agnelli’s wife and two...
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Small Plane Crashes on California Freeway, Hits Car, Kills 1
FALLBROOK, Calif.—A small plane crashed on a Southern California freeway Saturday, slamming into a car stopped on the side of the road, killing a woman in the vehicle and injuring five others,...
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Plane Crashes in Long Island Street, Pilot and Passenger Injured
A single-engine airplane heading to upstate New York has crashed on a Long Island, N.Y., street after taking off from a nearby airport. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently...
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Damon Dash Says Aaliyah Did Not Want to Board Fatal Flight
In a recent interview with The Real, Damon Dash, said his then-girlfriend Aaliyah did not want to board the plane that ultimately crashed leading to the singer’s death. The co-founder of Roc-A-Fella...
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Pilot Survives after Plane Crashes Into Tree
Surveillance video in Foley, Alabama, captured a plane plunging into a tree on April 26. The twin engine Cessna 42 plane then burst into flames. Surprisingly, the pilot, Russell Smith, who was...
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Small Plane Crashes in Syosset, New York—Pilot and Both Passengers Dead
UPDATE: According to a spokesman for the Nassau County Police Department, all three passengers aboard the aircraft have been confirmed dead. The spokesman said the crash created a large field of...
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Egyptian Plane With 66 Aboard Crashes; Terrorism Suspected
CAIRO— An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after swerving wildly in flight, authorities said, and Egypt said it may have...
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EgyptAir Flight 804: Latest Updates on Plane Crash With 66 Onboard
EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, crashed early May 19 into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete, Egyptian officials say. EgyptAir has stated earlier that...
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton React to the EgyptAir Crash
Both Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump highlighted the dangers of terrorism in their reaction to the crash of the EgyptAir Flight 804 bound from Paris...
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EgyptAir Crash Likely Caused by a Struggle in the Plane’s Cockpit, Expert Says
The former head of flight operations for the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority says that there might have been a struggle on the flight deck of the EgyptAir plane that crashed on Thursday morning. “One’s...
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EgyptAir Flight Attendant Samar Ezz Eldin Posted Facebook Image of Plane...
A flight attendant who was named as a victim on an EgyptAir flight that disappeared—and likely crashed—on Thursday posted an image of a plane crashing into the water on Facebook about a year before the...
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Smoke Detected on EgyptAir Jet Just Before Crash, Investigators Say
CAIRO—Smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear, the French...
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First Photos of EgyptAir 804 Wreckage Released
The Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman released, via Facebook, images of the first pieces of wreckage salvaged from EgyptAir Flight 804 on Saturday. The aircraft had been cruising normally in clear skies...
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Death of Couple on EgyptAir Flight 804 Leaves Three Orphans
An Egyptian couple seeking medical treatment in France were among the 66 who died in the crash of Flight 804, leaving behind three orphaned children, according to NBCNews. Reham Mosad and her husband...
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WWII Plane Pulled From Hudson After Crash That Killed Pilot
NEW YORK—Police divers and Army Corps of Engineers personnel retrieved the wreckage of a World War II plane from the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey on Saturday after the vintage aircraft...
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Firefighter Dies Tackling Emirates Plane Runway Blaze
A firefighter died on Aug. 3 while responding to an Emirates plane crash-landing in Dubai, according to local reports. “The General Civil Aviation Authority says a firefighter lost his life battling...
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Video Footage Shows Passengers Escaping Emirates Plane After Crash-Landing
Video footage inside the cabin of an Emirates plane after it crash-landed in Dubai shows panicked passengers scrambling to evacuate via emergency exits. The video was uploaded to YouTube on Aug. 4, and...
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Man Wins Lottery Six Days After Surviving Plane Crash in Dubai
An Indian man won $1 million in the United Arab Emirates lottery—just a week after he survived a plane crash-landing in Dubai. His lucky ticket was drawn in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire...
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Mississippi Teen Who Lost Parents in Plane Crash Pens Emotional Letter
A Mississippi girl who was left orphaned after her parents were killed in a plane crash took to Facebook on Aug. 16 to post a message about her parents’ death and life without them. “The truth is, yes,...
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Man Saves Girlfriend’s Life By Pushing Her Out of Plane
A Louisiana man who died in a plane crash on Aug. 27 is being hailed as a hero after saving his girlfriend’s life moments after the aircraft went down. First-time flyer Reginald Hilliard Jr., 25, and...
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4 Killed in Crash of Ambulance Plane in Nevada
ELKO, Nev. —The Latest on a plane crash in Elko, Nevada. (all times local): 9:20 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a fiery crash in...
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FBI Investigating Marine Corp Plane Crash That Killed 16
A military aircraft carrying at least 15 Marines and one sailor crashed into a Mississippi soybean field. The plane was coming from Cherry Point, North Carolina and was in Mississippi airspace when air...
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