Tag: military plane
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Four dead, five injured in Russia military plane crash
A Russian military cargo plane has crashed in the city of Ryazan in the Southern part of the Moscow. An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane crashed and caught fire while landing near Russia’s western city of Ryazan on Friday, killing four of the nine people on board.
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BREAKING: Ukraine military plane With 14 on board crashes near Kyiv
The emergencies service in Ukraine on Thursday revealed that a Ukrainian military plane with 14 people on board crashed south of Kyiv. According to the service, the number of people that died from the incident that occured about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kyiv can not be ascertained. This is coming at a time…
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At least 12 dead after military plane crashes
At least 12 people have died after a military aircraft crashed in Myanmar, according to a fire brigade spokesperson on Thursday. The accident occurred near the central city of Mandalay, the spokesperson told dpa. The weather conditions were very bad, according to local news reports. Soldiers and Buddhist monks were on board. The monks had…
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Military plane carrying air force cadets crashes, killing 22
A military transport plane, carrying air force cadets, crashed and burst into flames near a highway in north-eastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board, officials said. The Antonov An-26 aircraft crashed while trying to land during a training exercise, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Ruslan Khomchak, said in…
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Military plane crashes, judges, soldiers, others on board all dead
A Russian Antonov military plane carrying Sudanese judges and injured people crashed on Thursday in the Darfur region of Sudan, with all those on board killed, according to the Sudanese Red Crescent. The plane was travelling from the city of El Geneina – located in the west of Sudan, near the border with Chad –…
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16 feared dead in US military plane crash
A US military aircraft has crashed in the southern state of Mississippi, killing 16 people, US media reported yesterday. The US Marine Corps confirmed that a “mishap” involving a KC-130 occurred in the evening, without providing additional details. The Clarion-Ledger newspaper and CNN cited Leflore County emergency management director Fred Randle as confirming the death…