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A passenger plane with an estimated 62 people on board has gone missing shortly after take-off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 lost contact en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, officials said. Flight tracking website Flightradar24.com said the aircraft had lost more than 3,000m (10,000ft) in altitude in less
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Ukraine’s interior ministry on Friday said at least 20 people were killed when a military plane crash landed in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country. READ ALSO: Israel turns back travellers from Italy over coronavirus fears Ukraine’s air force said the Antonov-26 transport plane was carrying crew and cadets. The interior ministry
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By Lawani Mikairu A plane Friday ran into the fence at Muritala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The jet was said to have developed brake failures. The aircraft belonging to Jet Air sustained substantial damage and was said to be re-parking when it rammed into the fence. According to an eyewitness, “The accident happened around 10:00 am
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A special flight carrying evacuees to India who had been stranded abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 16 passengers and injuring 123 more, police said. Abdul Karim, a senior Kerala state police officer,
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Six people, including two pilots, were killed when a plane carrying medical supplies crashed in south-western Somalia on Monday, authorities said. “The cause of the accident is not yet known,” government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar Omar told DPA. The plane, which was carrying medical supplies needed in the fight against the coronavirus, took off from Baidoa
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…All passengers safe A Caspian Airlines plane slid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday. But all passengers were evacuated without injury, Iranian state media reported. “It ran out of runway when landing at Mahshahr airport with no casualties,’’ state news agency, IRNA, said. READ ALSO:
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The crew of the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Iran killing all 176 people on board did not make a radio call for help, investigators have said. Iran’s civil aviation authority said pilots were trying to turn the aircraft back to the airport in Tehran when the plane went down. They made the comments in
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A plane crashed into an American house in Colonia, about 22 miles from New York City, United States. Luckily, there was no one in the house as the blast caused a heat and fire damages. The fire extended to adjacent houses but a woman in one of the houses was able to escape without any
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The plane went missing with 13 people on board.
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It was a black Monday in Indonesia as a passenger plane carrying 188 people crashed into the sea off Jakarta, some minutes after take-off.
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