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  • Another small plane crashes

    Another small plane crashes

    Another small plane has crashed near Springfield, Illinois, United States.

    Emergency crews responded to a distress call on Tuesday.

    According to the FAA, the twin-engine Piper Aerostar went down in a field while on approach to the Springfield airport. The extent of casualties is yet unknown.

    The plane departed from Huntsville, Alabama.

    The Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport Authority’s Executive Director Mark Hanna said they were told about it shortly after 3 p.m. He said it went down east of Lake Springfield.

  • Plane carrying 83 passengers crashes

    The last two months might go down as the worst period for the aviation industry in recent time as another plane crashed Monday morning.

    The aircraft operated by Afghanistan’s state-owned airline Ariana crashed in the country’s central Ghazni province.

    Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor’s office in Ghazni city, said: “A Boeing plane belonging to the Ariana Afghan Airline, has crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province around 1:10 p.m. local time.”

    The number of casualties is still unclear.

    Just hours ago, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.

    All other persons on board were killed and the cause is under investigation.

    KB is survived by his wife Vanessa, and their three daughters – Natalia, Bianca and their newborn Capri.

    He won five NBA championships and the 2008 MVP Award with the Los Angeles Lakers.

    Earlier in the month, All 176 passengers and crew inside an Ukrainian plane died when it crashed in a field shortly after take-off.

    It has been confirmed that Iran shot down the aircraft in error amid its face-off with the United States.

  • Three Americans fighting Australian fires die in plane crash

    Three Americans fighting Australian fires die in plane crash

    Three American crew helping to battle Australia’s devastating bushfires were killed Thursday when their water-bombing plane crashed in mountainous terrain during a sortie to tackle another outbreak of the deadly blazes.

    Officials said the Hercules C-130 plane erupted in a large fireball on impact in a national park the Snowy Mountains shortly before 1:30 pm (0230 GMT).

    The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but New South Wales Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons had said earlier in the day that high winds were making flying the water tankers “very difficult”.

    “We’ve got a number of firefighters and a number of crew that are in the area and working to contain and work around the fire,” Fitzimmons said.

    The incident brought the death toll in Australia’s bushfires to at least 32 since the crisis began in September.

    The highly experienced US firefighting trio was working for Canadian firm Coulson Aviation, which had been contracted to help fight the fires.

    State Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the crash highlighted the danger faced by firefighters as they attempted to extinguish massive blazes across Australia’s southeast.

    “There are in excess of 70 aircraft that have been used today alone and today is a stark and horrible reminder of the dangerous conditions that our volunteers, (and) our emergency services personnel… (face) on a daily basis,” she said.

    The crash happened as at least seven fires, whipped up by scorching temperatures and strong winds, flared to emergency status following a brief lull brought by rain and cooler temperatures.

    Bushfires also forced the closure of Canberra Airport Thursday, with all flights in and out of the country’s capital suspended to allow the deployment of aerial firefighting crews to battle the approaching flames.

    Temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sydney, where a bushfire also broke out in a northwestern suburb of Australia’s biggest city.

    Wind gusts had been forecast to reach 90 kilometres per hour (55 miles per hour) in some areas, but Fitzsimmons said the winds were stronger than expected, especially in the fire-ravaged southeast.

  • Plane with 180 passengers aboard crashes in Iran

    Plane with 180 passengers aboard crashes in Iran

    An Ukrainian Boeing 737 with 180 passengers on aboard has crashed in Iran.

    Reports said the plane crashed Wednesday due to technical problems after take-off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport, Iranian news agency Far reported.

    The plane is operated by Ukrainian Airlines. There was no immediate word on casualties.

    An investigation team was at the site of the crash in southwestern outskirts of Tehran, civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said.

    The crash came hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting two bases in Iraq housing US forces in retaliation for the killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

    More details later…

  • BREAKING: 14 persons killed, others injured as plane crashes near airportn

    A Kazakhstan plane with 100 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 14 people while at least 35 others survived with injuries, officials in Almaty said.

    The Bek Air aircraft hit a concrete wall and a two-story building after takeoff from Almaty International Airport. It said the plane lost attitude at 7:22 a.m. (0122 GMT).

    In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and rescue operation got underway immediately following the crash.

    The plane was flying to Nur-Sultan, the country’s capital formerly known as Astana.

    The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner. The company manufacturing the aircraft went bankrupt in 1996 and the production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.

  • Nine killed in another plane crash in US

    Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff in adverse weather conditions in the U.S. state of South Dakota, local media reported.

    According to information revealed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the plane is a Pilatus PC-12 with 12 people on board.

    It took off from an airport in Chamberlain but crashed at around 12:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) on Saturday.

    Two children and the pilot were among the dead, Theresa Maule Rossow, the state’s attorney for Brule County, was quoted as saying by local media. Three survivors have been rushed to a nearby medical facility.

    According to Xinhua, reports have indicated that the FAA and NTSB investigators are heading to the crash site.

  • Emiliano Sala’s father dies three months after son’s crash

    The father of Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala, who was killed in a plane crash earlier this year, has died three months after his son.

    Horacio Sala, 58, suffered a heart attack on Friday, his friend and president of his local club confirmed.

    Daniel Ribero, from San Martin de Progreso, told C5N TV channel that Mr Sala had passed away before doctors arrived at his home in Progreso.

    Emiliano Sala’s plane crashed en route to Cardiff after leaving from France.

    The Argentine footballer was on his way to joining his new club Cardiff City from French club Nantes in a club record £15m deal when the crash happened over the English Channel.

    Progreso mayor Julio Muller led the tributes to Mr Sala, telling La Red radio station: “Horacio could not overcome Emi, we thought that after the discovery he would be able to close that circle.”

    In a statement, Cardiff City said the club offered its “deepest condolences” to Mr Sala’s friends and family.

    “They are very much in the thoughts of us all at this difficult time,” a spokesman said.

    The Piper Malibu N264DB plane carrying Sala and pilot David Ibbotson went missing over waters near the Channel Islands on 21 January and it took rescuers two weeks to find the wreckage.

    The football star’s body was recovered on 8 February after a private rescue team took over the search for the missing plane.

    The father-of-three, a long-distance lorry driver, spoke to the BBC two weeks ago and pleaded “that justice be done” for his son.

  • Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi escapes plane crash

    Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi escapes plane crash

    Super Eagles captain and Middlesbrough midfielder, John Mikel Obi has escaped a plane crash.

    Mikel and the other Middlesbrough players were at risk, as the club had to call off their flight home from Newport County as the plane was grounded due to engine failure.

    Footballlive.mg reports that Mikel was among the Middlesbrough players.

    The officials of the English Championship club called off a flight that would have taken the squad for their next league fixture.

    Mikel and other members were forced to about-turn on the Cardiff Airport runway, following their 2-0 FA Cup defeat to League Two, Newport County.

    They then re-boarded the team bus and returned to Middlesbrough by road, meaning the team did not return until 7am, with the players having to sleep on the way home.

  • Singing was an escape for me after the plane crash– Kechi Okwuchi

    Singing was an escape for me after the plane crash– Kechi Okwuchi

    Kechi Okwuchi made history in 2017 as one of the finalists in the much touted America’s Got Talent.

    The youngster had converted the sorrows and pains of being involved in a plane crash to finding her purpose in music.

     

    Speaking in a chat with Punch, Okwuchi noted that singing was an escape for her after the disastrous plane crash she was involved in.

    “My voice after the plane crash is one of those miracles I can’t explain. My voice became significantly better than it was before the plane crash. I remember when I was still in the hospital; my mum will always put a music player by my bed. There was a time she was playing one of my favourite albums, and I was singing along; I can still remember the moment when my mum and I were surprised that my voice sounded better than it used to before the accident.

    “We just saw it as something positive in the midst of all the ugly things that happened after the accident. I just ran with it, my voice really changed. It was an escape for me, and I was able to sing my sorrows away. It was very strange, I still can’t explain it,”she said.

     

    On how she engaged her social media followers during the reality TV show, she said:”I am more comfortable being myself – just the way I am in real life. However, prior to AGT, I wasn’t really consistently visible online as I am now. I had to learn how to engage people online. I was testing the waters with my posts to see what my followers were really interested in on my platform. I was not sure of the kind of posts they would like to see”

     

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  • 102 out of 105 passengers on board Cuba flight die as plane crashes

    No fewer than 102 persons lost their lives on Friday after a Boeing 737 plane crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport in Cuba.

    There were at least three possible survivors among the 105 passengers as well as nine crew, Cuban state-run media reported, adding that there were five children on board.

    According to Reuters, earlier reports on state media said there were 104 passengers.

    The number of casualties was not immediately known, but Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the site of the crash, told Agence France Presse, “it appears there is a high number of victims.”

    Wreckage was strewn over the area and ambulances and firefighters were at the scene, a Reuters witness said. The fire had been put out, and blackened parts of the fuselage could be seen.

    “We heard an explosion and then saw a big cloud of smoke go up,” said Gilberto Menendez, who runs a restaurant near the crash site in the agricultural area of Boyeros, 20km (12 miles) south of Havana.

    A worker at Havana’s Calixto Garcia hospital told Reuters three victims of the accident had arrived so far. One had died from burns and other trauma and the other two were in a serious state.

    “She is alive but very burnt and swollen,” said a distressed relative of one of the survivors at the hospital.

    The flight was destined for Holguin and was leased by airline Cubana from a small Mexican airline called Damojh or Global, Cuban state media said.