air accidents

Some of the soldiers were seen jumping out of the plane before it hit the ground and exploded into flames, an official said.

Metal fatigue has emerged as the chief suspect in the engine failure, which caused no injuries.

A similar incident in Japan had already drawn scrutiny from U.S. regulators, but they had not yet reached a conclusion on the matter when the Denver engine failure occurred.

The incident is the latest in a string of failures that has raised alarm among regulators about debris evading shielding that’s supposed to keep broken parts from hitting aircraft.

The move comes after after a United Airlines 777 landed safely at Denver International Airport on Saturday after its right engine failed, spraying debris over a wide area.

The ministry said the Air Self-Defense Force officer, a first lieutenant in his 20s, was aboard a U.S. Air Force T-38 aircraft on a training flight when it crashed.

A Boeing 777-200 operated by United Airlines made an emergency return to Denver International Airport on Saturday following an engine failure that rained debris on a city suburb. The airline said nobody aboard was injured. United Flight 328 was headed from Denver to Honolulu when ...

The board said the weather conditions were inconsistent with adverse weather training and resulted in the pilot's "spatial disorientation and loss of control."

Divers say the wreckage of flight SJ182 has yielded only small fragments of human remains.

The recent accident marks the third passenger plane in just over six years to crash into the Java Sea after departing from airports on Java island.

Statistics show the nation is the worst place in Asia to take an airplane, with with 104 accidents and 2,353 related fatalities since 1945.