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AIR ACCIDENTS

A woman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2023
Russia says genetic tests confirm Wagner chief Prigozhin died in plane crash
The private jet crashed two months to the day after Prigozhin led an abortive mutiny against the Russian Army's top brass.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2023
Memorial service held for victims of April GSDF chopper crash
The Ground Self-Defense Force is investigating the cause of the accident by analyzing the salvaged wreckage and the helicopter's flight data recorders.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2023
Fighter jets chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia
The fighter jets prompted a sonic boom over the U.S. capital in an attempt to pursue with the errant Cessna Citation, causing consternation among people in the Washington area.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2023
Air France flight turns back to Osaka after malfunction
An Air France KLM SA passenger plane flying from Osaka to French capital Paris turned back on Sunday after weather radar and speed meters malfunctioned.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 21, 2023
Memorializing those lost in the GSDF helicopter crash
All 10 SDF members on board a helicopter that crashed in the Miyako Island group are believed to have died in the crash.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 9, 2023
Putin likely approved supply of missile that struck MH17, investigators say
The team said they were halting their probe since there was not enough evidence to prosecute more suspects and Putin has immunity as head of state.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 22, 2023
'Not broken by war': Ukraine holds funeral for minister killed in crash
Part of a new generation of Ukrainian politicians, Monastyrsky was the highest-ranking official to die since Russia's invasion began last year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 19, 2023
Ukrainian interior minister killed in helicopter crash
The crash set off a large fire, and an entire side of the local nursery building was charred. The Kyiv region's governor said children had been in the nursery at the time of the crash.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 15, 2023
At least 68 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in 30 years
A Nepalese police official said rescue workers were having difficulty reaching the site of the plane crash in a gorge between two hills near a tourist town's airport.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 7, 2022
Japan Times 1997: 15 Japanese wives arrive on visit from North Korea
Twenty-five years ago, the Japanese media became fascinated by the women who left Japan for North Korea with their husbands 40 years prior.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2022
Survivors found after plane plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
A plane carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday due to bad weather shortly before it was due to land.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022
Investigators probe whether China Eastern crash was intentional, sources say
Authorities have said the pilots did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers and nearby planes during the rapid descent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2022
Black boxes may unlock secrets of jet’s mystery plunge in China
The recovery of the second black box gives investigators the best chance of finding out what caused the crash, but much depends on the condition of the black boxes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022
Air crash disaster risks an even wider rift for Boeing and China
With relations between Washington and Beijing at their lowest ebb in years, the probe into the crash has turned the two archrivals into reluctant bedfellows.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2022
China Eastern jet neared speed of sound before crash, damaging black box
The exterior of the cockpit voice recorder was 'severely damaged” and analysis will take time because there is also some damage to its internal memory unit, an official said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2022
How black boxes of crashed Chinese jet will be handled
The only device recovered so far is the plane's cockpit voice recorder, based on an early assessment, with the flight data recorder still yet to be found.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2022
China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear
About 600 soldiers, firefighters and police have been dispatched to the crash site, a patch of about 1 square kilometer in a location hemmed in by mountains on three sides.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 23, 2022
China Eastern crash could set back Boeing's China recovery and return of MAX
A 737 MAX built for a China Eastern subsidiary took off from Seattle bound for Boeing's completion plant in Zhoushan last week, in a sign the model's return to service in China was close.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022
Fatal nosedive by China Eastern jet baffles crash specialists
Few past incidents fit the extreme profile of the jet's descent Monday, in which it pointed steeply toward the ground before impact.
WORLD
Jul 6, 2021
Russian plane with 28 on board crashed into Sea of Okhotsk, report says
Russian emergency services have located where a missing An-26 plane crashed into the sea, RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, after the plane with 28 people on board went missing while preparing to land in Russia's Far East.

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