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PLANE

Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 24, 2019
Plane carrying about 17 passengers crashes on takeoff in eastern Congo
A passenger plane with about 17 passengers on board crashed Sunday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing several people, the provincial governor's office said.
WORLD
Aug 24, 2019
Tanzania says South Africa has impounded one of its Airbus planes
South African authorities have impounded an Airbus 220-300 aircraft leased by Tanzania's national flag carrier, the Tanzanian government said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2018
Accident involving U.S. planes off Shikoku categorized as most-severe 'Class A' mishap
The U.S. military said Sunday it has categorized the fatal crash involving a fighter jet and a tanker plane off Kochi Prefecture last week as a "Class A" mishap, the most severe category on its four-level scale.
WORLD
Nov 24, 2018
Utah teens steal propeller plane, fly it low over highway before landing at regional airport
Two teenagers stole a small plane in a rural area of eastern Utah on Thursday, flying it at low altitude over a highway and landing at a regional airport before being arrested, officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2017
Chase cars used to 'catch' American U-2 freshly back from spy mission
It may not sound possible to "catch" an American spy plane while driving a Dodge Charger. But that's precisely what we did on a sweltering August afternoon at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2016
Grieving Brazilian town receives bodies of soccer plane crash victims
The Brazilian town of Chapeco, its streets wet with drizzle and buildings draped in the green of its devastated soccer club, prepared Saturday to receive the bodies of victims of an air crash in Colombia that killed 71 people and wiped out the team.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2016
Kin of '85 JAL crash victims mark 31st anniversary of disaster
The victims of the world's deadliest single-plane crash are mourned on a steep mountainside in Gunma Prefecture to honor the lessons of JAL Flight 123.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2016
Washington prodded Boeing to help Japan probe deadly '85 JAL crash: former U.S. official
A U.S. attorney who was with the Justice Department at the time of the deadly 1985 Japan Airlines crash in Gunma Prefecture has said Washington pressured Boeing Co. to cooperate with Japan's investigation, rejecting suspicions across the Pacific that Washington sought to protect the plane maker.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 9, 2015
U.S. Navy spy plane's Singapore deployment drawing close China scrutiny
China's military is paying "close attention" to an agreement between the United States and Singapore to deploy the U.S. P-8 Poseidon spy plane to the city state and hopes the move does not harm regional stability, the defense ministry said.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2015
Investigators '90 percent sure' bomb caused Sinai Russian plane crash
Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording is an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2015
Ultra-light plane crash in Tokyo suburb kills two
Two men have died after an ultra-light plane crashed into a golf course in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, police say.
EDITORIALS
Aug 9, 2015
Clues to the fate of MH370
The discovery of plane parts on an island in the western Indian Ocean has restored hope that the world may yet discover the fate of Malaysian Airlines flight 370.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2015
Lessons of plane crash in Chofu
The July 26 airplane crash in Chofu, western Tokyo, demonstrates the need for tighter rules governing small airports and the pilots and companies that use them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2015
Zero fighter plane being prepped for first flight since WWII
Almost 70 years after it was flown by the Imperial Japanese Navy, a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane is being prepared to once again take to the skies of Japan to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 22, 2015
Beijing warns U.S. Navy spy plane eight times to steer clear of South China Sea artificial isles
The Chinese navy warned a U.S. surveillance plane flying over artificial islands that Beijing is creating in the disputed South China Sea to leave the area eight times, according to CNN, which was on board the flight on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 6, 2015
Actor Harrison Ford injured in small-plane crash in Los Angeles
"Star Wars" star Harrison Ford was seriously injured on Thursday when the actor crashed his vintage plane on a Los Angeles golf course shortly after taking off from a local airport, a source told Reuters.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2014
Plane carrying U2's Bono loses hatch while approaching Berlin, lands safely
A private plane carrying U2 frontman Bono lost its rear hatch while approaching Berlin, but the pilot managed to touch down safely and the Irish rock star was never in danger, airport authorities said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 26, 2014
U.S., Chinese officials to meet at Pentagon after jet intercept
U.S. and Chinese military officials will hold talks on rules of behavior at the Pentagon on Wednesday and Thursday, a U.S. official said, days after the United States denounced a "dangerous" Chinese jet intercept of a U.S. Navy patrol plane.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2014
Brazil presidential candidate Campos reported dead in plane crash
Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday in an airplane crash in the southeastern city of Santos, Globo News and Folha de S. Paulo reported. He was 49.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 25, 2014
Air Algerie plane latest to crash; 110 feared dead
An Air Algerie flight crashed Thursday while en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said.

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