A passenger jet caught fire after overshooting its landing sending it crashing through a fence at an airport in Russia, injuring 18 people. UTAir flight 579, a Boeing 737-800, suffered a runway excursion accident after landing at Adler/Sochi Airport, Russia. The aircraft departed Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport at 00:32 hours local …
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Afghan army Mil Mi-8 Helicopter with 14 aboard crashes at Shaheen Corps headquarters, northern Balkh province A total of twelve occupants died in the crash, two pilots and ten passengers. A Mil Mi-8MTV helicopter crashed during takeoff from the Shaheen Corps headquarters in Afghanistan. On board, the helicopter were …
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A Piper PA-28 Cherokee plane crash near Kaplan Vermillion Parish, LA – United States of America The light plane hit a transmission tower guy wire and crashed. The pilot died in the crash. The airplane was destroyed during the accident sequence. 2 plane occupants died A plane crashed into a television tower …
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At least one naval airman was Dead (martyred) on Friday as a Pakistan Navy helicopter crashed during a routine operational sortie in the Arabian Sea. Two of the four persons in the helicopter were injured in the incident. A rescue and recovery operation is underway, confirmed a navy spokesperson after …
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After a months-long competition Boeing Win Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drone Competition: U.S. Navy awards Boeing with an $808M contract for four MQ-25A unmanned air vehicles On 30 August, Boeing has announced that company is awarded an $805,318,853 fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract to provide the design, development, fabrication, test, verification, certification, delivery, …
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An Ethiopian Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter plane crashed with 18 people onboard near east Shoa zone, Oromia ( Ethiopia) Preliminary reports indicated that a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashed in Ethiopia. All those on board, 15 members of the Ethiopian defense force and three civilians were killed. Some …
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3 dead in a Schweizer SGS 2-32 glider crash near Sterling Mountain, Green Mountains, VT – United States of America The aircraft impacted wooded mountainous terrain on Sterling Mountain in the Green Mountains of Vermont. The glider sustained substantial damage and the three occupants onboard received fatal injuries. After 3 …
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One killed in an Ultralight floatplane crash at Santa Rosa Sound off Tiger Point, Santa Rosa County, FL – United States of America The aircraft impacted the waters of Santa Rosa Sound off Tiger Point, Fairport Peninsula, Florida. The seaplane sustained unreported damage and the sole pilot onboard was fatally injured. …
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Pilot Dead in a Royal Hellenic Air Force North American T-2E Buckeye plane crash about 7 nautical miles near the village Kollines north of the city of Sparta in south Peloponnese. The accident occurred at 8:50 a.m Defense Minister Panos Kammenos declared a 3-day mourning in Hellenic Air Force for …
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On Aug. 25, two Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon jets in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) at the Romanian Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base were scrambled to carry out VID (Visual Identification) on two Russian aircraft flying over the Black Sea in what was the third time the RAF jets have been …
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