A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed close to Vilnius Airport, killing a crew member and injuring three others, according to police. The Boeing 737-400, which took off from the eastern German city of Leipzig, went down …
Flight and voice data boxes from a plane that crashed in Brazil have been extracted with “100% success,” a government aviation official said, as investigators probe the cause of an accident that killed everyone on board. A preliminary report will …
Last year was the safest ever for commercial flying by a number of measures, the airline industry’s global lobby said, with no fatal accidents involving passenger jets in 37.7 million flights. No hull losses to passenger jets were recorded either, …
A French court on Monday cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of “involuntary manslaughter,” upsetting families of some of the 228 people killed when an airliner vanished into an Atlantic storm almost 14 years ago. The ruling follows a …
A Yeti Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal last month had no engine power during its final moments, the Hindustan Times reported, citing a government-appointed panel investigating the accident. Analysis of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder showed …
POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and were sending the aircraft’s data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country’s deadliest air …
KATHMANDU, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Searchers found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday from a passenger flight that crashed, killing at least 70 people in Nepal’s worst plane accident for 30 years, officials said. The data …
Nineteen people died after a passenger plane crashed into Africa’s largest lake on approach to an airport in northwestern Tanzania, Radio One cited Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa as saying. The ATR turboprop aircraft was carrying 39 passengers from Tanzania’s commercial …
A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice 13 years after an A330 jetliner plowed into the Atlantic, killing all on board. The heads of both …
PARIS (AP) – Nicolas Touillou had just proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Nelson Marinho Jr. was heading off on a new oil exploration job. Eric Lamy was about to celebrate his 38th birthday. They were among 228 people killed in …
