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TWA Flight 800 Evidence Points to Missile: Petition

Former US investigators want NTSB to reopen the probe into crash

(Newser) - As reported this morning , a group of former US investigators is now saying that TWA Flight 800 was not brought down by the NTSB's officially determined cause (a gas tank explosion). Now, they're getting more specific. The AP reports they did indeed today file a petition with the...

TWA Flight 800 Crash Not as Reported: Documentary

Former investigators say 'ordnance explosions' brought plane down

(Newser) - Conspiracy theorists have long suspected TWA Flight 800 was brought down not by the NTSB's officially determined cause (a gas tank explosion), but by something less accidental, and a new documentary debuting next month will give them quite a bit of fuel. The film includes testimony from six high-level...

Snake Hunter's Swamp Find Is Likely Plane Crash Gold

Man hunting pythons in Everglades instead finds pendant

(Newser) - The first part is an interesting enough tale: A guy hunting pythons in the Everglades instead finds a piece of gold jewelry that might be from one of two old plane crashes. But the best part of the story in the Miami Herald is that Mark Rubinstein says he will...

Cancer Patient Dies in Plane Crash After Doctor Visit

Cause still unknown as officials search for body of pilot

(Newser) - A twin-engine plane that went down in Upstate New York on Friday was an Angel Flight carrying a veteran who was fighting cancer, his wife, and the volunteer pilot returning them from a medical appointment in Boston, reports the AP . The patient and his wife—who haven't yet been...

Sole Survivor of 1987 Plane Crash Breaks Silence

Cecelia Crocker's parents, brother killed in Northwest Airlines tragedy

(Newser) - Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life—one that she doesn't otherwise remember. At only 4 years old, Crocker was the lone survivor of the 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash that killed 154 people aboard, including Crocker'...

US Military Plane Breaks Into 3 Pieces in Crash

No word yet on casualties in Kyrgyzstan

(Newser) - A US military refueling tanker plane crashed today in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation's emergencies ministry said. There was no immediate word on any casualties. A ministry statement said the plane crashed this afternoon near the village of Chaldovar, about 100 miles west of the Manas air base. Kyrgyzstan...

Cessnas Collide in Midair Over SoCal

One pilot dies, the other lands on golf course

(Newser) - Two Cessnas collided over Southern California yesterday afternoon, and those aboard one of the planes miraculously survived. That plane managed to land, with its landing gear still up, on a Westlake Golf Course fairway; the three people on board reported only minor injuries. But the other plane, also a single-engine...

Civilian Plane Crashes at Bagram; 7 Dead

Taliban claims responsibility, but NATO says it was an accident

(Newser) - The US-led military coalition says seven people died when a civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field today. In a statement, the coalition confirmed that all seven civilian crew members were killed in the incident. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the crash. But the coalition denied that, saying...

Bali Jet Skids Off Runway Into Ocean
 Bali Jet Skids Into Ocean 
Apr 13, 2013 5:31 AM CDT

Bali Jet Skids Into Ocean

All 100+ people on board appear to be safe

(Newser) - A passenger jet with more than 100 people aboard overshot the runway upon landing in Bali today and ended up in the ocean—but everybody on board appears to be safe, reports the BBC . The Lion Air jet, a Boeing 737-800, came to rest in shallow waters off the Indonesian...

2 Killed as Jet Crashes in Indiana Town

3 hospitalized in South Bend

(Newser) - A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed into an Indiana neighborhood yesterday, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane, authorities said. The crash injured two other people aboard the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet and one person on the ground, a fire official said. The jet had...

3 Feared Dead in Navy Jet Crash

Sheriff tells local media that no one survived

(Newser) - A Navy warplane crashed in rural Washington state this morning during a training mission and may have killed all three people on board, the Spokesman Review reports. The Navy hasn't confirmed the fatalities, but a sheriff said no one survived, and the manager of a nearby airport said it...

Most Escape as Ukraine Plane Crash-Lands, Burns

At least 1 reported dead as plane catches fire

(Newser) - A passenger plane crashed and caught fire today near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, but many passengers seem to have escaped before the fire started, Russian media outlets are reporting. Different reports have one or two people dead, out of the 36 people aboard the plane, Reuters reports. The plane,...

You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying
You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying
airline safety report
Feb 12, 2013 6:59 AM CST

You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying

Statistically speaking, it would take 123K years of flying to be in fatal crash

(Newser) - Knock on wood, but the US hasn't seen a fatal commercial jetliner crash in exactly four years —a new record. And no stat encapsulates just how safe flying has become more than this one: A US passenger now has a one in 45-million-flights death risk, which statistically means...

First Debris Found From Missoni Plane

Piece of luggage found near island

(Newser) - The first sign of debris from a missing plane that was carrying the CEO of Italian fashion house Missoni has surfaced in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao. A German tourist found a bag from the plane, which vanished shortly after takeoff on Jan. 4 near Venezuela, an official said....

Kazakhstan Plane Crash Kills All on Board

20 or 21 reported dead

(Newser) - A passenger jet carrying at least 20 people crashed today near Kazakhstan's principal city, Almaty, killing all on board, the airline and officials say. The SCAT airline said the plane carried 15 passengers and five crew. The Kazakh prosecutor-general's office said 21 people were aboard. The airline said...

Pilot of Missing Missoni Plane Had Expired License

And the airline didn't have proper paperwork, either

(Newser) - The search for fashion boss Vittorio Missoni and others aboard a small plane that went missing off the coast of Venezuela Jan. 4 continues, and a new report today doesn't exactly inspire confidence: An Italian newspaper says neither the 72-year-old pilot nor the small airline he worked for had...

Missing Fashion Mogul's Family Begs for Help

Crews search for Missoni's plane; or was he kidnapped?

(Newser) - The family of a missing Italian fashion designer is begging for help after his plane vanished off the coast of Venezuela on Friday, ANSA reports. "Vittorio Missoni is missing," tweeted Missoni's son. "Please help me find my father!" With searches ongoing, the pilot of a...

27 Dead in Kazakhstan Military Plane Crash

Border security chief Turganbek Stambekov among those dead

(Newser) - Kazakhstan's acting border service chief was among 27 people killed in a military plane crash today near a southern city, authorities said. The An-72 crashed at 7:55am EST about 12 miles away from the city of Shymkent near the border with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan's Committee for National Security...

Jenni Rivera Changed Travel Plans at Last Minute

Also, the singer's remains have been identified

(Newser) - Fox News Latino declares that "Jenni Rivera could have avoided death," in a report on a last-minute itinerary change the singer made. Though the promoter behind the concert she gave in Monterrey on Saturday offered to put her up in a hotel for the night, she made...

Rivera Plane Owner: Pilot Must Have Had Heart Attack

Christian Esquino Nunez says he is not to blame

(Newser) - Christian Esquino Nunez, an executive of the company that owned the plane that Jenni Rivera died in, says it's "fair" for authorities to look into his shady past . But, though he was once imprisoned in the US for two years for falsifying maintenance records of planes he bought...

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