Accidents
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AccidentsAnother Indian Air Force Mig-21 crashes, pilot killed
New Delhi, India - The age of these aircraft is too high
It continues the crashing of the Mig-21s of the Indian Air Force, the fourth in the world for largeness, which has lost 221 of these airplanes since 1991, as well as the deaths of a hundred of pilots.... more
AccidentsUs AH-64 Apache crashes in Afghanistan, no casualties reported
Kabul, Afghanistan - Probably a technical problem
During a support mission to the ground troops, whose nature is obviously secret, it crashed yesterday an American helicopter AH-64 Apache, which has reported serious damages. An official note of the... more
AccidentsRecovered two black boxes of LearJet 45 crashed in Milan: technical sheet
Rome, Italy - Bombardier LearJet 45
The Bombardier Aerospace LearJet 45 nine-seat super-light business jet, was announced in 1992. By the year 2000 over 100 aircraft were in service. The LearJet 45 is certified by both the US Federal Aviation... more
AccidentsUs military cargo plane attacked at Iraqi capital's hub
Baghdad, Iraq - The aggression during the landing maneuver
An American military transport aircraft has been attacked, little ago, at the airport of Baghdad where it would have had to land, has reported the Qatar-based satellite television Al Jazeera, adding the... more
AccidentsUS F-16 crashes in a South Korean Air Base, no victims reported
Seoul, South Korea - A woman on the ground was enjured
It crashed just after the take off from the Osan Air Force base, 45 km south-east from Seoul, the American F-16 jet, whose pilot has been however able to eject and he was found save. No so lucky, instead,... more
AccidentsFound today the body of a helicopter pilot crashed yestarday into the Gulf of Mexico
Houston, Usa - It's a Robinson R-44
It disappeared yesterday from the radars a Robinson R-44 helicopter taken off from an airport near Houston and directed towards the Gulf of Mexico, but only today the searches ended with the finding in... more
AccidentsAir security will be strengthened by Australia
Sydney, Australia - Provision has been taken after yesterday failed attempt of skyjack
After yesterday failed attempt of skyjack on a Qantas Airways'flight, by a man who stabbed two flight attendants and has hurt two passengers, with a sharpened wood objects, Australian Government has announced... more
AccidentsFound dead the four on board of a small French plane missing since yesterday
Geneva, Switzerland - Also Italian Military helicopters involved in the searches
It has been located in Swiss territory the small pane taken off yesterday from Chavenai (France) at 9:40 and directed to Lucca-Tassignano, but whose traces had gotten lost after the last contact radio... more
AccidentsThey're back in the homeland the coffins of 62 Spanish soldiers, honoured by highest State officials
Madrid, Spain - It's polemic in the country to have hired planes from other nations
They have arrived yesterday in the homeland with three Hercules military planes, the coffins of the 62 Spanish soldiers died in the incident of the Yak-42, crashed two days ago on a mountain in Turkey... more
AccidentsA small aircraft has crashed in flight to Italy has crashed in Switzerland
Wasen, Switzerland - Pilot and a passenger died
Yesterday in the evening, a small aircraft crashed in a wooded zone in near Wasen village, in Switzerland. In the incident died the pilot and a passenger. The aircraft was directed in Italy, but Swiss... more
AccidentsQantas flight attendants stubbed (2): they're in serious but stable conditions
Sydney, Australia - The man would have threatened to crash the plane
They're not known yet the reasons that have pushed a passenger on board of Qantas flight 1737 to stub, with a sharpened wooden implement, against two flight attendants, who are now in the hospital of Melbourne... more
AccidentsQantas flight attendants stubbed
Sydney, Australia - Maybe also two passengers attacked
Two Qantas flight attendants would have been stabbed this morning after a quarrel with two passengers. The airplane took off from Melbourne and was en route to Launceston (Tasmania), in the South of... more
AccidentsAl Jazeera: an American helicopter pulled down in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq - 4 Us soldiers would have died
Still a American helicopter would have been pulled down in Iraq, this time in the city of Anbar, but once again the news that comes are not made official from American sources, but neither denied. The... more
AccidentsAA-587 flight's crash avoidable if Airbus'd have supplied more details (2): Airbus' response
Washington, Usa - A request from Us authorities has never come
According to what reported from the American daily paper "USA Today", the 2001 tragedy cost the lives of 265 persons would have been avoidable if Airbus, producer of the crashed A-300, had given some technical... more
AccidentsBritish Midland aircraft damaged in flight by a violent hailstorm
London, United Kingdom - There are not hurts
A British Midland's Airbus 312, of the Cyprus-Manchester flight, has been damaged by a violent hailstorm that has hit it while it was flying over Germany. The news has been reported by Bbc. According to... more
Accidents"Usa Today": AA-587 flight's crash avoidable if Airbus supplied given more datas
Washington, Usa - Tragedy happened on November 12, 2001
"Only after the crash of the flight American Airlines 587, in 2001, according to the enquirers a catastrophe caused by breach of the tail fin, the Airbus has supplied to the US authorities datas about... more
AccidentsMI-17 crashes on the slopes of Everest (2): the technical sheet
Rome, Italy - An aircraft to fit any needs
MI-17 is a multipurpose helicopter that can also be armed with an immense assortment of rockets and missiles, often used in order to supply support to the ground forces. But the varied employment is... more
AccidentsMI-17 crashes on the slopes of Everest, at least three died
Kathmandu, Nepal - There's agitation for the anniversary
In the week of the celebrations for the conquest of the highest summit of the world, Everest, a MI-17 helicopter owned by Simrik Air society has crashed near the field base to the slopes of the mountain,... more
AccidentsFound three black boxes of Yak-42 crashed yesterday in Turkey
Ankara, Turkey - Almost sure the Ukranian pilot's error
The Turkish Defense minister Vecdi Gonul has announced this morning they have been found 3 black boxes of the Yak-42, the Ukranian airplane crashed yesterday while transporting to Saragoza 62 Spanish troops... more
AccidentsA top-gun plane crashes during an international war exercise
Toronto, Canada - The pilot dropped dead on the spot
It's crashed yesterday afternoon a Canadian twin-engine CF-18 jet, costing the life of the pilot who however was able to eject. The pilot, Kevin Naismith, 38, originally from Toronto, was carrying an international... more
AccidentsAmerican helicopter shot in Iraq (2): Us Centcom denies what happened
Baghdad, Iraq - It would have been an incident without victims nor wounded
The news disclosed yesterday from the Arabian television Al Jazeera about the shooting down of an American helicopter would be false. That in the light of the official declarations of Centcom, the American... more
AccidentsTwo Russian aircraft has been shot down by Chechen guerrilla
Grozny, Chechenya - News revealed by press agency "Kavkav"
Two Russian aircraft, a SU-25 jet fighter and a MI-24 helicopter, have been shot down in Chechenya in the last three days. Chechen guerrilla has communicated it yesterday, supporting they have inflicted... more
AccidentsUSD 2m the insurance for the Yak-42 crashed in Turkey
Kiev, Ucraina - The plane was hired by UN
It was assured only for USD 2m the Yak-42, the airplane of the Ukranian airline UM Air which crashed yesterday in Turkey while transporting to Saragoza 62 Spanish troops returning from Afghanistan (news... more
AccidentsUkrainian aircraft crashed in Turkey (3): pilot error hypothesis
Ankara, Turkey - News revealed by Anatolie press agency, citing Turkish civil aviation sources
According to press agency Anatolie, citing Turkish civil aviation's sources, an human error has been the origin of this morning incident, when an Ukranian airplane crashed in the Northern-East of Turkey,... more
AccidentsUkrainian aircraft with Spanish soldiers on board crashed in Turkey (2): the technical sheet
Rome, Italy - Yakolevlev Yak-42
Yakovlev Yak-42 was designed as a replacement for TU-134 jet. Shortly after the types introduction into commercial service (1980) a number of accidents caused by vibrations in the tail section of the aircraft... more
AccidentsUkrainian aircraft with Spanish soldiers on board crashed in Turkey
Ankara, Turkey - According to the Turkish network , there are not survivors
Ntv, Turkish Network has reported today news of the recovery, by rescuers, of 25 corpses in Trabzon, near the Black Sea, after that an Ukrainian airplane Yak-42 crashed with on board 62 Spanish soldiers... more
AccidentsA helicopter crashed into Lesotho's Katse Dam
Katse, Lesotho - Three crew's members have been rescued, while the searches for two men who went missing are running
A helicopter, with five men on board, crashed into Lesotho's Katse Dam on Tuesday morning. Three crew's members have been rescued, while the search for two men who went missing are running. It is feared... more
AccidentsEgyptian Air Force Mig-21 crashes
Cairo, Egypt - An engine failure the cause of the incident
They are poor the news about a Russian-built Mig-21, but owned by Egyptian Air Force, crashed yesterday in Egypt, near the Nilo river delta, 180 km north of Cairo. According to the little military sources... more
AccidentsJapanese Navy plane crashes killing four
Tokyo, Japan - The incident during a touch-and-go manoeuver
The incident has happened at 02:25 (GMT) at the military base of Iwakuni, shared by Japaneses and Americans, 700 km west of Tokyo, after a normal training in the Sea of Japan. The Learjet U-3A belonging... more
AccidentsJapanese antitank helicopter crashes
Aomori, Japan - No casualties are reported
An antitank helicopter of the Japanese Gsdf (Ground Self-Defense Force) has crashed today in the mountains close to the city of Yomogita, in the district of Aomori. Uncertain the causes of the incident,... more
AccidentsUs Marine CH-46 "Sea King" crashes, five soldiers died
Karbala, Iraq - But it's not an enemy attack
It's crashed yesterday for causes not known yet, a Marine CH-46 "Sea King" helicopter, and a spokesman of Pentagon has declared there not are reasons in order to believe the helicopter has been hit from... more
AccidentsRussian Il-62 in emergency landing because of an engine failure
Moscow, Russia - No casualties have been reported
It has been forced to perform an emergency landing in the peninsula of Kamchatka an Il-62 airplane with 174 passengers on board just after the takeoff. The aircraft, owned by the Moscow-based airline... more
AccidentsTaiwan would re-thinks about the purchase of P-3C, believed too expensive
Taipei, Taiwan - Cheaper P-3B could be taken
It has not been signed yet an agreement care which antisubmarine airplane will take the place of the aging S-2T Tracker, but it is sure the government of Taipei will not pay USD 4,1bn to the USA for the... more
AccidentsVeteran plane T-6 crashes, two died
Lisbon, Portugal - The aircraft was an aeronautic memento
It had to be a day of festivity for all the fans of veteran flight and instead it turned out in tragedy when a T-6 training reconnaissance aircraft, owned by the museum of the aeronautic, crashed approximately... more
AccidentsA BA pilot dies in parachute incident
Florida, Usa - A gust of wind the cause
Martin Siddel, 52 years old, a British Airways pilot with the vice of parachuting, died in Florida yesterday because of the wounds after the impact with the ground. Indeed the parachute has opened successfully,... more
AccidentsNo victims in the incident of a Il-76 occurred on Friday
Kinshasa, Democratic Repubblic of Congo - The statement of Congolese government makes it clear
The news of 120 persons or perhaps more died, as a result of the opening of the door of an Ukranian Il-76 in flight over Congo, had been reported by all world-wide press agencies, although then no widening... more
AccidentsA Black Hawk crashes in Iraq, three Us soldiers died
Washington, Usa - The helicopter would have entangle in the cable
They would have been fortuitous causes to have provoked the incident that on Friday evening has cost the life of three American soldiers while a fourth is seriously wounded, according to what reported... more
AccidentsA door of an Ilyushin plane opens during flight (3): 129 troops died together with families
Kinshasa, Democratic Repubblic of Congo - The plane hired by the Congo Army
The victims of the disaster happened this night over Congo skies, while flying over the province of Kasai, are not 200 but 129 according to the first governmental official news, and they would be militaries... more
AccidentsA door of an Ilyushin plane opens during flight (2): the technical sheet
Rome, Italy - Used both for civil and military flights
The Ilyushin 76 "Candid" entered in service in Soviet Union in 1974 as the successor of the An-12, but it is used widely both by Russia than by many other Countries Air Force. The aircraft is used both... more
AccidentsA door of an Ilyushin plane opens during flight, maybe 200 persons died
Kinshasa, Democratic Repubblic of Congo - The news still miss an official confirmation
According to some news that need however of an ulterior confirmation, a Russian Ilyushin airplane would have had the separation of the main door while ot was flying to an altitude of 2200 meters. It's... more
AccidentsPolice South African helicopter crashes, everybody survives
Pretoria, South Africa - Only a man was seriously injured after the crash on a mountain
The 5 occupants of a helicopter of the South African police incredibly survived after the crash on Wednesday in the zone of Drakensberg, during a patrolling mission. Spotted a suspicious group of men under... more
AccidentsA porthole blows up, Aeromexico plane in emergency landing
Mexico City, Mexico - No serious consequences for the passengers
Moments of fear yesterday at the international airport of Mexico City for the passengers on board of a B-727 of the Mexican airline Aeromexico, because of the breach of a window happened just after the... more
AccidentsBomb exploded on Air India 182 flight passed control, but scanner signaled it
Toronto, Canada - It has been revealed by a witness
"I was surprised for luggage signaled the suspect presence also in the other side, where the padlock was not. I have seen dozens of suitcases with padlock and scanner has never played". This is the testimony... more
AccidentsRussian officer charged with negligence for the crash of a MI-26
Moscow, Russia - In the incident happened one year ago 119 troops died
He has been charged with negligence the Russian lieutenant-colonel Alexander Savenkov, commander of a MI-26 helicopter shot down by a missile launched by Chechens: 119 troops died in the worst military... more
AccidentsFamily of a lost pilot refunded: the airport to blame for the incident
Washington, Usa - A ditch was along the runway
It's arrived after seven years of processes the refund of USD 10,5m for the family of pilot Larry Koppie, died in 1996 in an aircraft incident in which an other pilot, a flight attendant and a passenger... more
AccidentsRussian Mi-2 crashes, injuring 2 seriously
Moscow, Russia - The helicopter was hired for commercial purposes
A Mi-2 helicopter of the Muscovite airline Prim Air has crashed yesterday in the independent province of Khanty-Mansii, causing the wounding of 4 persons on board, 2 crewmembers and 2 passengers. These... more
AccidentsGerman military helicopter forced to an emergency landing in Kosovo
Berlin, Germany - No wounded
A Bell UH-1D helicopter, of the German contingent as part of Nato multinational peace force in Kosovo, has yesterday forced to an emergency landing in a riverbed in Prizren. German Foreign Office declared... more
AccidentsRussian MI-26 crashes: 12 died, maybe because of a tragic event
Moscow, Russia - It was engaged in fire-fighting operations
They are 12 the deads in the disaster that on Saturday has involved a Russian helicopter MI-26 while it was engaged in the fire-fighting operations, fire that is destroying the forests in the Far East... more
AccidentsUs CH-53 crashes in Iraqi territory, no one was injured
Baghdad, Iraq - It was not an enemy fire, probably a breakdown
A CH-53 helicopter of American Navy has been destroyed yesterday close to the city of Najaf, after being forced to an emergency landing but no one of the soldiers on board was hurted. It is not suspected... more
AccidentsSpanish F-5 crashes near Madrid killing the pilot
Madrid, Spain - Perhaps in short time an inquiry commission
It's crashed at 11:00 am of today the F-5 of the Spanish Air Force, and killing the pilot who has not been able to eject. The incident has happened close the city of Talavera, south-west from Madrid,... more