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Plane Crashes at Reno Air Races; 3 Dead, Scores Injured

Pilot went down near grandstand

(Newser) - As thousands watched in horror, a WWII-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled, and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward , slammed into the concrete...

Russian Hockey Team Dies in Plane Crash

Just one team member reportedly among survivors

(Newser) - Just two people survived a crash today that claimed almost an entire Russian ice hockey team. The Yak-42 plane, which was carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team to Minsk for the season opener, crashed to the ground and caught fire immediately after take-off at 4pm Moscow time. RIA Novosti reports that...

To Locate Plane Crash, Chile Turns to Psychic

17 bodies still missing from air force crash on Friday

(Newser) - With the bodies of 17 victims still missing from an air force plane crash on Friday, Chilean officials have turned to a psychic to help find the bodies, reports the AFP . "We're are working with a person who is on one of the (search) boats," says Chile'...

Planes Collide in Alaska, 4 Dead

Second pilot able to make emergency landing

(Newser) - Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaskan lake and one crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane, a Cessna 206 with only the pilot aboard, was able to return to Anchorage International Airport and make an emergency landing despite significant...

Replica Wright Brothers' Plane Crashes, Killing 2

New replica built using modern parts, was just a month old

(Newser) - A replica of the Wright brothers' Model B 1910 plane crashed in Ohio yesterday, killing both of its pilots, reports CNN . The plane, which was first launched in June, was built with a modern engine, materials, and controls, and was modified to make it easier to transport, but resembled the...

Flight From JFK Crashes: All 163 Survive

Plane overshoots runway in Guyana

(Newser) - You probably wouldn't guess as much from the photos, but all 163 people aboard a plane from JFK to Guyana survived a disastrous landing. Dozens of people required medical attention, however, including four with serious injuries, reports AP . After the plane touched down on a rainy runway during the...

Air France Pilots Didn't Know What Was Happening

Neither co-pilot had been trained for sensor malfunctions, new report says

(Newser) - The crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not appear to know that the plane was in a stall, despite repeated warning signals, and never informed the passengers that anything was wrong before the jet plunged into the sea, according to new findings released today. Based...

Morocco Plane Crash Kills 78
 Morocco Plane Crash Kills 78 
Jul 26, 2011 9:43 AM CDT

Morocco Plane Crash Kills 78

Three survivors reported as military plane goes down in bad weather

(Newser) - A C-130 military transport plane crashed into a Moroccan mountain in bad weather today, killing 78 people, says the state news agency. It reports there are three survivors. The crash in a southern region close to the disputed Western Sahara is this country's deadliest in years. Information Minister Khaled...

Jet Smashes Smaller Plane at Boston Airport

At least one person injured

(Newser) - A pair of planes crashed at Boston’s Logan Airport last night, injuring at least one woman. A large Delta 767 with 204 passengers was preparing to take off when its wing sliced through the tail of a smaller plane on a taxiway, the Boston Globe reports. Dozens of emergency...

High School Hoops Star Survives 2nd Plane Crash

In critical condition in crash that killed his father, step-mother

(Newser) - A 16-year-old basketball star is in critical condition after surviving his second plane crash, reports the Chicago Tribune . Austin Hatch's father, who was piloting the single-engine plane, died in the crash, along with his stepmother. Austin had previously survived a 2003 plane crash killed his mother and two siblings....

Russia Plane Crash Kills 44
 Russia Plane Crash Kills 44 
Jun 21, 2011 1:17 AM CDT

Russia Plane Crash Kills 44

RusAir Tu-134 comes down on highway in heavy fog

(Newser) - A passenger plane slammed into a highway in Russia last night, killing 44 people and critically injuring eight others. The Rusair Tupolev-134 aircraft crash-landed in heavy fog a mile short of the runway at Petrozavodsk, 400 miles north of Moscow. A 10-year-old boy and a girl who may be his...

Air France Searchers Recover 75 Bodies

Crash victims pulled from wreckage could be preserved by icy depths

(Newser) - A French search team has pulled another 75 victims of the Air France Flight 447 crash out of the briny depths in recent days, a spokesman for the French military police said today. He would not say what condition the bodies were in, but Reuters notes that the first two...

Argentina Plane Crash Kills 22
 Argentina Plane Crash Kills 22 
May 19, 2011 8:08 AM CDT

Argentina Plane Crash Kills 22

Including a baby

(Newser) - A Sol Airlines plane crashed and exploded in southern Argentina last night, killing all 22 people on board. Among the dead were three crew members and 19 passengers, including a baby, the airline tells the AP. "Unfortunately there are no survivors," said the director of the nearest hospital....

Recordings Recovered From Crashed Air France Jet

Investigation among most complex and expensive in history

(Newser) - French investigators have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders of an Air France jet found in the Atlantic nearly two years after it crashed, they said today. The recorders were located by underwater robots and hoisted from depths of some 13,000 feet earlier...

Body Recovered From 2009 Air France Crash

But it may not be possible to recover all the bodies found

(Newser) - Following the recovery of the black box and cockpit recorder from the 2009 Air France crash, officials have pulled a passenger's body from the ocean. The French Gendarmerie says the remains, which were still attached to a plane seat, were pulled up this morning. The first search effort after...

Air France Recorder Pulled From Atlantic

Investigators hope for clues in 2009 plane crash

(Newser) - On the heels of recovering the black box from the doomed Air France flight that fell out of the sky off the Brazilian coast nearly two years ago, French investigators have pulled the cockpit recorder from the depths of the Atlantic, reports the AP. It's not yet certain whether...

Two Killed in California Navy Jet Crash

$50M Hornet disintegrates into smoldering debris in Fresno field

(Newser) - Two service members were killed yesterday when a fighter jet crashed into a field in central California during a training exercise. The F/A-18F Super Hornet went down a half mile from the Naval Air Station outside of Fresno. Witnesses said the $50 million aircraft disintegrated into "smoldering debris,"...

UN Plane Crash in Congo Kills 10
 UN Plane Crash 
 in Congo Kills 32 
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Apr 4, 2011 11:43 PM CDT

UN Plane Crash in Congo Kills 32

Only one survivor from Kinshasa crash

(Newser) - More heartbreak for the UN : A small passenger plane carrying United Nations staffers crashed yesterday in the Congo and broke into pieces, killing 32 of 33 people onboard, UN officials have confirmed.The UN peacekeeping mission in New York described the craft as a small passenger plane and said it...

Wreckage Found From 2009 Air France Crash

It could shed light on what brought down jet, killing 228

(Newser) - Investigators might finally get a better idea of why an Air France flight crashed into the Atlantic nearly two years ago and killed all 228 aboard. A fourth deep-sea search led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has yielded plane parts believed to be from the Airbus 330, reports the...

No One Died on a US Flight in 2010

Fatal crashes 'on the brink of extinction' thanks to advanced technology

(Newser) - US airlines didn’t have a single fatality in 2010—a feat that’s at once rarer-than-you’d-think and becoming more common. Fatality-free years have not historically been unheard of in aviation, but they’ve been sporadic occasions—until now. This is the third time in the past four years...

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