National Jun 11, 2018
U.S. F-15 from Kadena crashes off Okinawa; pilot rescued by ASDF
U.S. Forces Japan said that the pilot ejected and was recovered by a search and rescue team, adding the crash occurred during a training mission.
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World Jun 11, 2018
Witness saw flames coming from small plane before it crashed in Wisconsin, killing four in family
A small plane has crashed in southern Wisconsin, killing four family members. The Green County Sheriff's Office says the crash happened just after noon Sunday about a mile north of the Monroe Municipal Airport. Sheriff Mark Rohloff says the single-engine Cessna 182T went down in a ...
Asia Pacific May 23, 2018
The director of a seabed hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Tuesday disagreed with a new book's conclusion that the pilot likely flew the plane beyond the search area to deliberately sink it in unexplored depths of the Indian Ocean. The Australian Transport Safety ...
World May 23, 2018
All aboard survive as biz jet crashes, breaks in two on Tegucigalpa runway
A private jet crashed off the end of the runway of the international airport in Honduras' capital on Tuesday, but the crew and passengers were rescued and reportedly out of danger, according to Honduras' emergency management agency. Photographs posted by the agency show a white ...
World May 22, 2018
Two Cuban jetliner crash survivors fighting for their lives: doctors
Two of the 3 Cuban women pulled alive from the wreckage of a plane crash that killed 110 people are fighting for their lives in hospital, doctors said Monday. "The three patients continue to be in an extremely critical condition, with a high risk of ...
Business May 21, 2018
Mexican charter firm in Cuba jetliner crash hit with safety complaints; witness saw engine fire
The Mexican charter company whose 39-year-old plane crashed in Havana had been the subject of two serious complaints about its crews' performance over the last decade, according to authorities in Guyana and a retired pilot for Cuba's national airline. Mexico's government said late Saturday that ...
World May 21, 2018
At morgues and in church services, tearful Cubans on Sunday mourned loved ones who died in the country's worst air disaster in three decades. Island authorities said they have identified 20 bodies and recovered all human remains from the field next to Havana's international airport ...
World May 9, 2018
U.S. Air Force orders stand-downs for safety review after deadly crashes
The U.S. Air Force will ground all of its aircraft for a day while it conducts a safety review following a series of deadly accidents, officials said Tuesday. Active duty wings and their maintainers can choose when to conduct the stand-downs, though they must do ...
World May 3, 2018
A crew of nine Puerto Ricans was flying an Air National Guard C-130 into retirement in Arizona when it crashed onto a highway in Georgia on Wednesday, and authorities said there appeared to be no survivors. The plane crashed onto state highway 21 moments after ...
World May 3, 2018
Passengers heard window popping on Southwest jetliner before emergency landing
A cracked window forced a Southwest Airlines plane heading from Chicago to New Jersey to land in Cleveland on Wednesday, just two weeks after a jet engine blew apart and broke a window in a deadly accident aboard another Southwest flight. There were no reports ...
National Apr 26, 2018
Two U.S. Ospreys make precautionary landings at Amami Airport before flying to bases
Two U.S. military Osprey aircraft made emergency landings at the airport on Amami Island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday afternoon, a government source said. The tilt-rotor transport aircraft deployed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on the Okinawa main island landed at Amami Airport ...
World Apr 18, 2018
One dead in U.S. after airliner engine explodes midair on Southwest flight
A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Passengers scrambled ...