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  • BREAKING: All passengers perish as plane crashes

    BREAKING: All passengers perish as plane crashes

    A small aircraft crashed in the northwestern Brazilian state of Acre claiming the lives of no fewer than 12 individuals, including an infant.

    In a statement by the Acre state government on Sunday, the plane, a single-engine Cessna Caravan, went down near the Rio Branco airport.

    Tragically, all 10 passengers, consisting of nine adults and an infant, along with the pilot and co-pilot, lost their lives at the scene. An investigation is underway.

    The nationalities of the passengers remain unclear.

    The aircraft was en route to Envira, a small town in the neighboring Amazonas state of Brazil, and was reportedly operated by the local firm ART Taxi Aereo.

    According to reports from local media, the plane caught fire upon impact, igniting a forest fire in a remote area near Brazil’s border with Peru and Bolivia.

    This marks the second such incident in less than two months. In September, a small jet crashed in the Amazonas state, claiming the lives of 14 people, including 12 passengers and two crew members, all of whom were Brazilian tourists. The aircraft went down while approaching the tourist town of Barcelos in heavy rain and low visibility, according to officials.

  • SAD! US Senator, wife, two kids perish in plane crash

    SAD! US Senator, wife, two kids perish in plane crash

    A Senator in North Dakota, Doug Larsen, his wife and two children were killed in a plane crash that occurred on Sunday night.

    Larsen’s death was confirmed on Monday in an email that the Republican Senate Majority Leader, David Hogue, sent to his fellow senators.

    The mail read: “Senator Doug Larsen, his wife, Amy, and their two young children died in a plane crash last evening in Utah.”

    A brief statement released by the Sheriff’s Office also read, “Rescue efforts were completed. Four occupants unfortunately did not survive the crash. Further information will be provided as soon as family members have been notified.”

    The family was reportedly returning to North Dakota from a family visit in Scottsdale, Arizona. They stopped to refuel when their plane went down in Utah.

    The cause of the crash is being investigated.

  • SAD! Six dead in Nepal tourist helicopter crash

    SAD! Six dead in Nepal tourist helicopter crash

    All six people aboard a tourist helicopter in Nepal were killed when it crashed soon after take-off in the Everest region on Tuesday, aviation authorities said.

    The Manang Air flight was heading for the capital Kathmandu from near Lukla, the gateway for climbing expeditions to the world’s highest peak, with five members of the same Mexican family and a Nepali pilot onboard.

    The chopper lost contact eight minutes after taking off on Tuesday morning, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a statement.

    “The six bodies have been recovered and brought to Kathmandu,” Pratap Babu Tiwari, general manager at the Tribhuvan International Airport, told AFP.

    Two helicopters were deployed for search and rescue but could not land at the crash site because of the weather.

    “The teams on the ground brought the bodies to the helicopters, which were able to land close by,” Tiwari said.

    Lhakpa Sherpa, a local resident who joined search and rescue efforts, said the scene was “very scary”.

    “It looks like the helicopter first collided with a tree and then slammed on the floor. It has caused a small hole in the ground,” he said.

    Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “expressed grief” over the incident, his office said on Twitter.

    The passengers were a mother, father and three children on holiday in the Himalayas, Mexico’s embassy in New Delhi said, expressing its “heartfelt condolences” to their relatives.

    “It was a family of five people who were tourists,” Ambassador Federico Salas told a Mexican television channel.

    Poor Air Safety
    Nepal has a booming private helicopter industry, flying tourists and goods to remote corners of the Himalayan nation where road access is limited or non-existent.

    But the country is notorious for its poor air safety, and Tuesday’s incident is the latest in a string of aviation accidents.

    One person was killed and four were injured in May when a helicopter crashed in eastern Nepal after dropping off goods for a hydroelectricity project.

    Multiple helicopter accidents claimed more than a dozen lives during rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating 2015 earthquake.

    Plane crashes are also common in the Himalayan Republic, home to remote and tricky runways flanked by snow-capped peaks that pose a challenge even for accomplished pilots.

    The weather can change quickly in the mountains, creating treacherous flying conditions, and Nepal’s woeful safety record has been exacerbated by insufficient training and maintenance.

    All 72 people aboard a flight to the tourist city of Pokhara were killed in January when the plane plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames.

    In 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines plane crash-landed near Kathmandu’s notoriously difficult international airport, killing 51 people and seriously injuring 20.

    In 1992, in Nepal’s deadliest air accident, all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu airport.

    The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.

    AFP

  • 4 missing children believed to be alive, 17 days after plane crash

    4 missing children believed to be alive, 17 days after plane crash

    Colombian authorities were believed to have found three children and a baby alive 17 days after a plane crashed with them on board in the jungle in the south of the country.

    President Gustavo Petro made this known on Wednesday evening.

    “After arduous search efforts by our Military Forces, we have found alive the 4 children who had disappeared due to the plane crash in Guaviare.

    `A joy for the country,’’ Petro tweeted.

    Colombian armed forces were still to confirm they had located the four minors – aged 13-years-old, 9-years-old, 4-years-old, and 11-months-old.

    On Wednesday morning, they found an improvised shelter built with sticks and branches in the jungle.

    The Colombian government deployed more than 100 soldiers, sniffer dogs, and local indigenous people to find the children.

    The children were on board a Cessna C206 light aircraft when it crashed in the Amazon in the southern Caquetá department on May 1.

    The three adults on board died in the crash.

  • Just In: Plane crashes, kills 40 passengers, injures many

    Just In: Plane crashes, kills 40 passengers, injures many

    No fewer than 40 people were killed when an aircraft crashed in Nepal on Sunday, a Nepal army spokesperson said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site.

    “We expect to recover more bodies,” the spokesperson, Krishna Bhandari, said. “The plane has broken into pieces.”

    A Yeti Airlines spokesperson, Sudarshan Bartaula, said there were 72 people onboard – 68 passengers and four crew.

    According to an airport official, foreign nationals from Australia, France, Argentina, India, Russia, Ireland, China and South Korea were among the passengers.

    “Rescue is under way, we don’t know right now if there are survivor,” Bartaula said.

    The plane crashed between the old and new Pokhara airports in central Nepal.

    The wreckage was on fire and rescue workers were trying to put out the blaze, local official Gurudutta Dhakal said.

    “Responders have already reached there and trying to douse the fire,” Dhakal said. “All agencies are now focused on first dousing the fire and rescuing the passengers.”

    The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft was operated by Yeti Airlines and flying from Kathmandu, the Himalayan country’s capital, an airport official said. After news of the crash broke the country’s prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, called an emergency cabinet meeting.

    Nepal’s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.

    But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance. The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.

    The Himalayan country also has some of the world’s most remote and tricky runways, flanked by snow-capped peaks with approaches that pose a challenge even for accomplished pilots.

    Aircraft operators say Nepal lacks infrastructure for accurate weather forecasts, especially in remote areas with challenging mountainous terrain where deadly crashes have taken place in the past.

    The weather can also change quickly in the mountains, creating treacherous flying conditions.

  • NSIB releases final reports on 7 serious plane crash in Nigeria

    NSIB releases final reports on 7 serious plane crash in Nigeria

    The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) on Thursday in Abuja released seven final reports on accident occurrences in aviation sector to the public.

    NSIB Director-General, Mr Akin Olateru, said while briefing newsmen that the reports were essential to the fulfilment of the bureau’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incidents.

    According to him, the aim of releasing the reports is to enhance safety, through safety recommendations issued, thereby assuring safe skies in Nigeria and globally.

    “We remain committed, through improving our processes, human capacity and equipment, to fulfil our mandate effectively, purposefully and professionally.

    “Today, we are releasing seven serious incident final reports. Included in the reports are 20 safety recommendations, which were addressed to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

    “Also addressed to – the affected airlines, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) among others “ he said.

    According to Olateru, newly released reports make a total of 82 aircraft accident reports released by NSIB since its establishment in 2007 and a total of 63 reports released by current administration from 2017 till date.

    He said seven reports and 30 safety recommendations had been released so far in 2022 alone.

    NSIB boss further said that the bureau had also released a total of 272 safety recommendations since inception with 191 of the recommendations released by this administration.

    “The reports to be released today include; serious incident involving Bristow Helicopters Nigeria LTD, Embraer 135 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BSN, which occurred at Port Harcourt Military Airport (NAF BASE), Port Harcourt, on March 9, 2020.

    “The serious incident involving ATR-72 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N- BPG owned and operated by Overland Airways limited, which occurred at Ilorin International Airport, Nigeria, on Nov. 29, 2014.

    “The serious incident involving Boeing 737-300 Aircraft belonging to Air Peace Limited with nationality and registration Marks 5N-BUO , which occurred at FL310 enroute Enugu from Lagos on Dec. 14, 2018,“ he said.

    He added that the serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B Aircraft , with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt, Nigeria on July 16, 2020.

    “The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Osubi airstrip, Warri, Nigeria on Sept. 10, 2020.

    “The serious incident involving a Dornier 328-100 aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-DOX, operated by Dornier Aviation Nigeria AIEP (DANA) Limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport on Jan. 23, 2019.

    “The serious incident involving Airbus 330-243 aircraft operated by middle East Airlines with nationality and registration marks OD-MEA,“ he said.

    Other,  he said was a parked Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Turkish Airlines with nationality and registration marks TC-LJC , which occurred at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on July, 29, 2020.

    Oloateru stated that the details of the reports, which include the factual information, findings, analysis, conclusions and safety recommendations on the investigations were available for download on the organisation’s website.

    “I would like to appreciate the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika , for his unrelenting support for the Bureau’s activities.

    “I would also like to appreciate the NSIB team for their dedication, diligence and hard work that allows the Bureau to fulfil its mandate always, “ he said.

  • LATAM Airlines plane kills two firefighters after colliding with firetruck on Peruvian runway (VIDEO)

    LATAM Airlines plane kills two firefighters after colliding with firetruck on Peruvian runway (VIDEO)

    A LATAM Airlines jet has killed two firefighters after it collided with a firetruck on the runway of Peru’s Jorge Chavez International Airport as it was taking off on Friday.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that there were 102 passengers and six crew members aboard the Airbus A320neo.

    No passengers or flight crew members were killed in the incident, the airline said.

    It remains unclear why the firetruck entered the runway while the plane was taking off and the prosecutors’ office said it was investigating the incident as potential manslaughter.

    Video posted on social media showed the jet colliding with the firetruck as it careened down the runway, then rapidly catching fire and smoking heavily as it ground to a halt.

    Lima Airport Partners, which operates Jorge Chavez in Lima, the nation’s most important airport, said the airport will remain closed at least through 1 p.m. local time on Saturday.

    “Our teams are providing the necessary care to all passengers, who are in good condition,” the company said.

    The flight was LA2213, covering the domestic Lima-Juliaca route, LATAM Airlines said.

    This is the second incident in less than a month involving LATAM Airlines, after one of its planes had its nose destroyed during a severe storm that forced it to make an emergency landing.

    Luis Ponce La Jara, general commander of the fire department, said two firefighters were killed and one was injured when the truck they were in was struck by the plane. Both the plane and the firetruck were in motion when they collided.

    President Pedro Castillo expressed his condolences to the families of the firefighters in a tweet.

    Flight LA2213 was taking off from Lima’s main airport en route to the Peruvian city of Juliaca.

    Videos on social media showed smoke coming from a large plane on the runway.

    According to the fire department, the incident was registered at 3:25 p.m. and four rescue units were mobilized.

    The Prosecutor’s Office in Callao, where the airport is located, said an investigation into the cause of the accident had been opened.

    Aviation authorities said operations at Jorge Chávez International Airport were suspended until 1 p.m. local time Saturday. Flights would be directed to other airports in the meantime.

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  • Indonesia releases final report on fatal January 2021 plane crash

    Indonesia releases final report on fatal January 2021 plane crash

    Indonesia’s transportation safety body has released the final report on the passenger plane crash that killed all 62 people on board in January 2021, disclosing that the captain’s reliance on the autopilot system may have contributed to the accident.

    The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) in the report released on Thursday disclosed that the Sriwijaya Air pilot may have failed to take corrective action when the plane’s throttle system malfunctioned because he was complacent about the aircraft’s automatic system.

    “Complacency about the automation system and confirmation bias may have led to reduced monitoring of instruments and other circumstances,’’ KNKT disclosed in the report.

    The Boeing 737-500 plummeted into the Java Sea minutes after take-off from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Jan. 9, last year.

    Investigators said the aircraft had problems with its automatic throttle system.

    Its left-engine throttle lever moved backward, causing the engine to have less power and the plane to roll onto its side before it crashed, the investigation report said.

    Sriwijaya Air flight 182 was en route from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Borneo Island when it crashed.

    Pilots on earlier flights had reported that the throttle system of the aircraft had malfunctioned, but those problems had been reported as successfully fixed, the report said.

    The accident was the fourth major air crash in Indonesia in six years.

    In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX belonging to Indonesia’s largest budget carrier, Lion Air, crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.

    The aircraft’s faulty new anti-stall system was blamed for the crash, as well as that of another 737 Max in Ethiopia that killed 157 people in March 2019.

  • Tanzania plane crash survivors, rescuers narrate ordeal

    Tanzania plane crash survivors, rescuers narrate ordeal

    When the waters of Lake Victoria started gushing into the cabin of Flight PW494, passenger Mectrida Samuel knew she had to act fast.

    Around her, others were frantically trying to free themselves and keep above the fast-rising water.

    “We had a big crash and I immediately started seeing water enter the plane. Passengers started to struggle to rescue themselves,” Samuel said, describing the moments after the Precision Air flight to Bukoba plunged into the lake in northern Tanzania.

    “The only thing that helped me survive was that I managed to remove my seat belt and get out of the seat on time.”

    Minutes earlier, the twin turboprop with 43 people on board had hit a thunderstorm carrying heavy rain and powerful downdrafts.

    A witness saw the plane flying unsteadily in poor visibility when it took a turn for the airport but missed, careering into the lake at 8:53 a.m. (0553 GMT).

    The Tanzanian authorities are yet to determine the causes of the crash.

    In the hours and days after the accident, reports of survival and dramatic rescue efforts started to emerge.

    The two pilots survived the impact and remained in touch with rescue workers from the cockpit for a couple of hours, a local administrator said, before reporting that their oxygen supply was dwindling.

    Onlookers, including fisherman Majaliwa Jackson, rushed to the semi-submerged aircraft to help pull out trapped passengers.

    Jackson dived into the water and managed to communicate with the pilots by signalling through the window, he told the BBC.

    The pilots directed him to try and smash the windscreen, but an official told him not to, he said.

    He dived into the water a final time and waved goodbye.

    Video footage of the scene shows fishing boats and people on the shore trying to drag the plane out of the water with ropes tied to the tail fin.

    Crash survivor Samuel had managed to swim towards the back of the aircraft, where one of the cabin crew members helped open the emergency door, she said.

    “After a few minutes, local fishermen came to rescue us,” she said.

    By the time rescue workers reached the pilots, their air supply had run out and the pair were dead, authorities said.

    Another man, who had been returning from his niece’s wedding in another part of the country was also amongst the dead, according to his relative Alfred Tibaigana.

    “We have received this tragedy of our loving relative with great sadness,” Tibaigana told Reuters.

    At a ceremony in a sports stadium in Bukoba town on Monday, relatives, religious leaders, and government officials filed past the coffins of the 19 people who perished in the incident, each decorated with flowers and a photograph of the deceased.

    The government said it will reward Jackson, who had tried in vain to rescue the pilots, for his bravery with 1 million Tanzanian shillings ($430) and hire him as a first responder.

  • Tanzania plane crash survivors, rescuers describe heroics laced with tragedy

    Tanzania plane crash survivors, rescuers describe heroics laced with tragedy

    When the waters of Lake Victoria started gushing into the cabin of Flight PW494, passenger Mectrida Samuel knew she had to act fast.

    Around her, others were frantically trying to free themselves and keep above the fast-rising water.

    “We had a big crash and I immediately started seeing water enter the plane. Passengers started to struggle to rescue themselves,” Samuel said, describing the moments after the Precision Air flight to Bukoba plunged into the lake in northern Tanzania.

    “The only thing that helped me survive was that I managed to remove my seat belt and get out of the seat on time.”

    Minutes earlier, the twin turboprop with 43 people on board had hit a thunderstorm carrying heavy rain and powerful downdrafts.

    A witness saw the plane flying unsteadily in poor visibility when it took a turn for the airport but missed, careering into the lake at 8:53 a.m. (0553 GMT).

    The Tanzanian authorities are yet to determine the causes of the crash.

    In the hours and days after the accident, reports of survival and dramatic rescue efforts started to emerge.

    The two pilots survived the impact and remained in touch with rescue workers from the cockpit for a couple of hours, a local administrator said, before reporting that their oxygen supply was dwindling.

    Onlookers, including fisherman Majaliwa Jackson, rushed to the semi-submerged aircraft to help pull out trapped passengers.

    Jackson dived into the water and managed to communicate with the pilots by signalling through the window, he told the BBC.

    The pilots directed him to try and smash the windscreen, but an official told him not to, he said.

    He dived into the water a final time and waved goodbye.

    Video footage of the scene shows fishing boats and people on the shore trying to drag the plane out of the water with ropes tied to the tail fin.

    Crash survivor Samuel had managed to swim towards the back of the aircraft, where one of the cabin crew members helped open the emergency door, she said.

    “After a few minutes, local fishermen came to rescue us,” she said.

    By the time rescue workers reached the pilots, their air supply had run out and the pair were dead, authorities said.

    Another man, who had been returning from his niece’s wedding in another part of the country was also amongst the dead, according to his relative Alfred Tibaigana.

    “We have received this tragedy of our loving relative with great sadness,” Tibaigana told Reuters.

    At a ceremony in a sports stadium in Bukoba town on Monday, relatives, religious leaders, and government officials filed past the coffins of the 19 people who perished in the incident, each decorated with flowers and a photograph of the deceased.

    The government said it will reward Jackson, who had tried in vain to rescue the pilots, for his bravery with 1 million Tanzanian shillings ($430) and hire him as a first responder.