Posts Tagged ‘plane crash’
Written by ynelperia on 10 July 2011
Share As plane attempted to land in the Kinshasa, Congo last Friday, it crashed causing to kill at least 48 people and leaving a dozen or greater suppressed in the wreckage because of the thunderstorm occurred. Only 53 person along for the ride survived the tragedy. Stavros Papaioannou, the chairman and CEO of Hewa Bora [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 04 April 2011
Share Investigators have discovered several bodies in the wreckage of an Air France plane crash over the Atlantic in 2009. However, they still haven’t seen the plane’s black box flight recorders. It still unclear if they are still attached to the fuselage, the Associated Press reports. Passengers of the Airbus 320-303 [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 18 March 2011
Share Moments after its takeoff Wednesday, a twin-engine plane owned by Carde Equipment Sales LLC en route to Salt Lake City blasted in a ball of flames at the Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California, 10 miles to the south of Los Angeles. Five people were killed leaving the sixth seriously injured according to [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 28 November 2010
Share On an early Sunday, a plane crashed in a Karachi residential neighborhood. At least eight people were reported dead. Flames were shooting through the evening sky, a Pakistani official said. A spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority said, the cargo plane took off at 1:45 a.m. from the Jinnah Karachi [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 04 November 2010
Share Qantas refuted earlier reports that one of its planes had crashed. Insisting that a passenger flight had encountered engine trouble and was heading back to Singapore airport. "There has not been a crash," a spokeswoman said, adding that flight QF32 had been forced to shut down one engine. According to Singapore state TV, the [Continue reading]
Written by zelda on 05 September 2010
Share Fox Glacier. Nine died, one survivor in a Fletcher aircraft crash early this afternoon in Fox Glacier, New Zealand as it took off the the airstrip at 130 pm their local time. The plane was owned by a skydiving company. Among the dead were 4 foreigners from Britain, Ireland, Australia and Germany, police [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 25 August 2010
Share In reports of Xinhua news at least 47 people were injured when a Chinese passenger plane overshot its runway and burst into flames while it was trying to land late Tuesday in China’s northeast The plane crashed while trying to land in the city of Yichun in remote Heilongjiang province. The aircraft was [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 24 August 2010
Share On Tuesday morning, a single-engine aircraft with 11 passengers and three crew members on board,reportedly crashed south of Kathmandu amid bad weather, according to government officials. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in an interview with CNN that four of the passengers are U.S. citizens, one is a Japanese citizen and one a [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 16 August 2010
Share Reportedly, a Colombian plane has crashed when it was struck by lightning. At least one person was killed and injured 114, officials say. The Boeing 737, with 131 passengers, had been trying to land at an airport on the island of San Andres in the Caribbean Sea. The passenger jet, which was being operated [Continue reading]
Written by zelda on 11 August 2010
Share Former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O’Keefe was aboard on a float plane when it crashed into a remote mountainside in Alaska. Share [Continue reading]