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  • Newborn baby uncovered in airplane toilet bin as alleged mother denies baby

    Newborn baby uncovered in airplane toilet bin as alleged mother denies baby

    A newborn baby was on New Year’s Day discovered in the toilet bin of an Air Mauritius plane.

    The baby was discovered during a routine customs check of the plane, which landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport.

    A 20-year-old woman from Madagascar, suspected of having given birth in the flight denied the baby.

    However, a medical examination revealed she had just given birth.

    Both mother and new baby is in the hospital under police surveillance.

    According to UK Times News, the young mother, a citizen of MadaTimes-Newsived in Mauritius with a two-year work permit.

  • Plane bursts into flames after hitting mango tree, all on board killed

    Plane bursts into flames after hitting mango tree, all on board killed

    Five people were killed on Tuesday when a cargo plane carrying fuel for the UN’s World Food Programme crashed near South Sudan’s capital Juba, airport officials said.

    The aircraft — a Soviet-era Antonov An-26 transport plane — crashed shortly after taking off from Juba’s international airport, killing everyone onboard.

    “One is a South Sudanese, two are Sudanese and two are Ukrainians,” David Subek, head of the South Sudan Civil Aviation Authority said.

    The cargo plane belonging to a local operator was reportedly carrying 28 barrels of fuel for the WFP to Maban, a district housing more than 100,000 refugees.

    According to the airport’s director general Kur Kuol, it hit a mango tree and caught fire.

    “The people on board were burnt. They are in bad shape,” said Kuol.

    South Sudan Red Cross said emergency workers had collected five bodies that were “burned beyond recognition”.

    South Sudan, a young nation that achieved independence in 2011 and has been in the throes of a chronic economic and political crisis, lacks a reliable transport infrastructure, with plane crashes often blamed on overloading and poor weather.

    President Salva Kiir on March 3 ordered the suspension of an airline after one of its planes crashed in the country’s east, killing all 10 people aboard including the two pilots.

    The aircraft belonging to South Sudan Supreme Airlines crashed in Jonglei state shortly after taking off from Pieri.

    Another plane owned by local company South West Aviation crashed in August last year killing four passengers and three crew.

    The cargo plane had been carrying cash to the Wau region in the country’s northwest for Juba-based Opportunity Bank.

    Overloading of planes is common in South Sudan, and was believed to have contributed to the 2015 crash of an Antonov plane in Juba that left 36 people dead.

    In 2017, 37 people had a miraculous escape after their plane hit a fire truck on a runway in Wau before bursting into flames.

  • Two dead as plane crashes into homes in California

    Two dead as plane crashes into homes in California

    A small aircraft crashed blocks from a high school campus near San Diego on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring two others, while also destroying homes, officials and local media said.

    At least two homes appeared to have been destroyed by an ensuing fire, the city of Santee, California, where the crash occurred, said on Twitter.

    “At approximately 12:00 pm today, a small twin engine plane crashed into two residential homes in Santee,” the tweet added.

    The plane, a C340 twin-engine Cessna, was headed to Yuma, Arizona, from Montgomery Field in San Diego.

    But it had issues and was trying to land at Gillespie Field, which is near the high school, when it crashed, according to NBC San Diego.

    It was not immediately clear how many people were on board the plane.

    Several vehicles were burned, but firefighters were able to put out the blaze before it spread to other houses.

    Two deaths were confirmed and two other people were taken to a hospital.

    Among the dead was a UPS driver. At least two others were injured, reported San Diego Tribune.

    Witnesses described a retired couple being rescued from one of two homes that were destroyed in Santee, a largely residential suburb of 50,000 people.

    Ten other homes were damaged.

  • Plane carrying parachutists crashes; four dead, others injured

    Four people were killed and four badly injured on Saturday when a small plane crashed in Russia’s Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, the local emergency medical service said.

    TASS news agency earlier said at least seven people were killed when the twin-engine L-410 crashed near the Tanay aerodrome, which provides parachuting services.

    It also cited the local prosecutors’ office as saying the crew had sent a distress signal about engine failure.

    A medical services spokesman told Reuters the injured were being airlifted to hospitals.

    Social media showed pictures of the heavily-damaged plane with an ambulance nearby.

    A spokesman at a Siberian branch of Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia said a search and rescue operation was under way, declining to provide details.

  • Drama as Imo traditional ruler engages Rochas Okorocha in near fisticuffs inside plane

    Drama as Imo traditional ruler engages Rochas Okorocha in near fisticuffs inside plane

    There was a mild drama between former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha and chairman, Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya inside the business class section of Air Peace at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri on weekend.

    According to reports, Ilomuanya, who was calmly seated before Okorocha’s arrival, suddenly charged at the senator representing Imo West when he entered the plane and attacked him with his walking stick.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG gathered that the monarch attempted to fight the ex-governor over his alleged humiliation by Okorocha during his tenure.

    What started like a joke, suddenly snowballed into a full-fledged confrontation inside the aircraft, as the monarch allegedly descended on Okorocha with his walking stick and shouted at him to stay away from him and Orlu people.

    It took the timely intervention of the flight captain and other attendants on board, who rushed in and stopped Ilomuanya from further hitting Okorocha with his walking stick, to douse the tension.

    Okorocha, who was said to have maintained calmness, was said to have been immediately relocated to another seat, even as Ilomuanya was heard warning him to stay away from Orlu Senatorial District if he truly wanted peace to reign.

    Ilomuanya is one of the two monarchs dethroned by Okorocha on June 6, 2014. He was earlier removed as the chairman of the state Council of Traditional Rulers.

    He was, however, reinstated as the traditional ruler by former Governor Emeka Ihedioha, who said the reinstatement was based on a legal advice.

    Reacting to the incident, Okorocha, through his media adviser, Sam Onwuemeodo, described Ilomuanya’s assault on him as “disgraceful, unfortunate, condemnable, embarrassing, ungodly, indecent and unexpected from someone who had led the state Council of Traditional Rulers.

    Onwuemeodo, who issued a statement following the trending of the incident on the social media, said the monarch’s action was propelled by his desire to return as the chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers.

    According to the statement, people like Ilomuanya “have told themselves that the easiest way or method to adopt to achieve their aims or ambitions will be to insult or attack Okorocha, leveraging on the hostility of the government in the state now, against Okorocha and his family.

    “If Senator Okorocha saw his brother, llomuanya and chose to sit close to him, that action should be highly commended and applauded. It showed that Okorocha had behaved not only as a Christian, but also as a statesman. It showed that he had nothing personal against llomuanya.

    “Again, if llomuanya could confront Okorocha to the extent of hitting him with his walking stick and Okorocha did not retaliate but hastily relocated to another seat, we will only say that Okorocha has acquitted himself very well as a two term former of Imo State governor and now a sitting senator and a worthy ambassador of the state and the nation. He has shown character worthy of emulation.”

  • Plane goes missing shortly after taking off

    Plane goes missing shortly after taking off

    A Sriwijaya Air plane with more than 50 people on board lost contact after taking off from Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, local media reported.

    Reliable tracking service Flightradar24 said on its Twitter feed that Flight SJ182 “lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta”.

    Surachman, a local government official, told Kompas TV that fishermen found what appeared to be the wreckage of an aircraft in waters north of Jakarta and a search was underway. Other channels showed pictures of suspected wreckage.

    “We found some cables, a piece of jeans, and pieces of metal on the water,” Zulkifli, a security official, told CNNIndonesia.com.

    The aircraft is a 27-year-old Boeing 737-500, according to registration details included in the Flightradar24 tracking data. It took off just after 2.30 p.m. (0730 GMT) and lost contact soon afterwards, a search and rescue official told local television.

    Sriwijaya Air, an Indonesian airline, said in a statement it is still gathering more detailed information regarding the flight before it can make a fuller statement.

    A Boeing 737 MAX operated by Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed off Jakarta in late 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew. The plane that lost contact on Saturday is a much older model.

    National search and rescue agency Basarnas said it could give no immediate comment.

  • JUST IN: Plane skids off runway, breaks in two while landing [Photo]

    JUST IN: Plane skids off runway, breaks in two while landing [Photo]

    At least 11 people, including the two pilots died in the crash of Air India Express Boeing 737 plane at Kerala’s Kozhikode Airport on Friday night.

    The accident happened amid heavy rain.

    Flight IX 1344 from Dubai, with 191 people on board skidded off the runway and broke in two while landing

    Police said the two pilots and nine other passengers died.

    Most on board have been evacuated and at least 50 injured, including 15 in serious condition, have been taken to hospital, authorities said.

    Four passengers were still stuck inside the wreckage, NDTV reported.

    There were 174 passengers, 10 Infants, two pilots and five cabin crew members on board the aircraft.

    The flight was part of the Vande Bharat programme that has been bringing back Indians from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.

    Television images from the site showed part of the fuselage of the Boeing 737 jet ripped apart with debris strewn all over.

    The incident took place amid very heavy rainfall in the area around 7:40 pm. Emergency services personnel were seen working in the dark and spraying the wreckage with water.

    According to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, the aircraft circled the airport several times and made two attempts to land.

    The Kozhikode airport is one of Kerala’s most prominent international terminals and handles a significant number of flights from abroad, Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor told NDTV.

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted, “Distressed to learn about the tragic accident of Air India Express aircraft in Kozhikode, Kerala.

    “Have instructed NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) to reach the site at the earliest and assist with the rescue operations.”

  • Photo: Plane overloaded with cocaine crashes on take-off

    Photo: Plane overloaded with cocaine crashes on take-off

    A light aircraft overloaded with cocaine crashed on take-off on its way to Australia, police said on Saturday, exposing a Melbourne-based crime syndicate and leading to the arrest of five men with alleged links to the Italian mafia.

    The Cesna aircraft, which was stuffed with more than 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of cocaine, went down while attempting to leave a remote airstrip in Papua New Guinea on July 26.

    Australian Federal Police said in a statement that “greed played a significant part in the syndicate’s activities” and added they “cannot rule out that the weight of the cocaine had an impact on the planes (sic) ability to take off.”
    Five suspects were arrested in Queensland and Victoria in recent days, and have been charged with conspiring to import over 500 kilograms of cocaine and a number of related offenses. They each face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. The pilot was also arrested two days later, after surrendering himself to police.
    Authorities said the plane had flown to Papua New Guinea from the small town of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, flying at about 3,000 feet to avoid detection by radar.

    The cocaine stash was eventually found on Friday after a search of the area. Its total value was estimated to be around 80 million Australian dollars ($57M USD), the equivalent of about 500,000 street deals.

    “With current interstate travel restrictions in place due to COVID-19, the attempt to import illicit drugs into Australia shows how opportunistic and greedy organised crime can be,” AFP deputy commissioner Ian McCartney said in a statement.

    The arrested men — aged 31, 36, 31, 33, and 61 — were charged with a variety of crimes. The first man arrested faces charges of directing activities of a criminal syndicate and money laundering of over $1m AUD. A number of assets were seized by police, with an estimated total value of $3.5 million AUD.

    The drugs bust is one of the largest in recent Australian history. In 2016, a similar-sized 500 kilogram haul of cocaine was seized by officers in New South Wales.

  • Finally, Nigerians evacuated from Dubai arrive in Lagos

    Finally, Nigerians evacuated from Dubai arrive in Lagos

    The first batch of Nigerians evacuated from the United Arab Emirates have landed in Lagos.

    The returnees, who landed on Wednesday evening, landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, a few hours later than scheduled.

    They were earlier scheduled to return at 3pm, but had to return to Dubai after a woman, who gave birth on the aircraft developed complications.

    Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, confirmed the development via his Twitter handle.

    “The Flight conveying 256 Nigerians evacuated from Dubai has landed Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos,” he wrote.

    The federal government had said all those for evacuation must test negative for COVID-19 before being allowed into the country, and will also be quarantined for 14 days on return to Nigeria.

  • Nigerian woman gives birth on plane returning evacuees from Dubai

    Nigerian woman gives birth on plane returning evacuees from Dubai

    A plane conveying Nigerian citizens from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has made a U-turn after a pregnant woman gives birth to a baby mid-air.

    Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made this known on Wednesday.

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, had said 265 Nigerians would arrive in Lagos from Dubai on Wednesday as part of efforts to bring citizens willing to come back to the country amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

    It was gathered that the airline left Dubai for Lagos at 10am but an hour into the about eight-hour trip, the woman gave birth, forcing the pilots to return the plane to Dubai to disembark the mother and the new born.

    The plane, which was scheduled to arrive at 3pm is now expected to land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7pm.