London: One person was killed and two others were critically injured on Sunday after a light aircraft crashed at Caernarfon Airport in Gwynedd in Wales, police said. A man in his 60s suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a boy had head and abdomen injuries following the incident, the ambulance service said.
Fire crews cut another man from the wreckage, pronounced dead at the scene, the BBC reported. Police said the three people on board were from a family in Lancashire.
The aircraft reportedly crashed and flipped on its approach to the runway at the airfield in Dinas Dinlle. The two casualties were taken to hospital at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor. Their condition has been described as critical. The incident has been referred to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
An AAIB spokesman said: "We are aware of the incident and have dispatched a team to carry out a preliminary inspection." North Wales Police said family liaison officers are currently supporting the family....
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11:06 PM, May 19, 2013
Yangon: Two passengers have been injured when a plane landing in Myanmar shot past the end of the runway when its brakes failed. The Facebook page of Myanmar state radio and TV reported that a Fokker plane of Myanmar Airways carrying 55 passengers went 200 meters past the end of the runway at Monghsat in northern Shan state on Thursday before it hit a fence and stopped. It said a...
09:44 PM, May 16, 2013
Kathmandu: All 22 people, including eight Japanese tourists on board a Nepal Airlines aircraft on Thursday escaped with minor injuries after the small plane skidded off the runway while trying to land and plunged into a river in northwestern Nepal. The accident occurred as the Twin Otter airplane on a flight from Pokhara skidded off the runway while trying to land at Jomsom Airport in a mountainous region and crashed...
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Bali: A Lion Air jet carrying more than 100 passengers and crew crashed into the ocean while attempting to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, injuring up to 45 people, officials said on Saturday. All 101 passengers and seven crew members were safely rescued from the plane, said I Made Krisna Maharta, an official with Bali's search and rescue agency. Up to 45 people were taken to several...
08:29 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Jakarta: A Lion Air plane with more than 100 passengers skidded off the end of a runway into the sea on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, police said on Saturday. Bali Police Chief Arif Wahyunadi told local TV One that all of the passengers and crew were evacuated from the plane and taken into the airport terminal for treatment. Hospital officials and paramedics said at least seven passengers were...
02:44 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Wellington: New Zealand navy divers have recovered the bodies of an American wireless executive and his wife after the plane he was piloting crashed in the South Pacific. Eric Hertz, an experienced amateur pilot, radioed authorities March 30 to say an engine had failed on the couple's twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. He and his wife Kathy, a university employee, had left from an airport near Auckland bound for the South Island...
12:31 PM, Apr 08, 2013
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11:04 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A passenger plane crashed near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty on Tuesday, killing 20 people, news agencies quoted SCAT airline as saying. ...
02:48 PM, Jan 29, 2013
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10:01 PM, Dec 25, 2012
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08:21 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Seattle: Richard Bach, the author of the 1970s best-selling novella "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" among other spiritually oriented books rooted in themes of flight and self-discovery, was in serious condition on Saturday after his small plane crashed. The SeaRey single-engine amphibian aircraft clipped power lines on Friday at 4:30 pm about three miles (5 kilometers) west of Friday Harbor Airport, according to Ian Gregor, a public affairs manager for the Federal...
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Godhra: Religious guru Asaram Bapu and four others had a miraculous escape when their helicopter crashed just ahead of landing at a local college in Godhra on Wednesday, police said. They sustained minor injuries in the incident, police said. "The chartered helicopter Asaram Bapu and his followers were travelling in developed a technical snag prior to landing at Godhra Science college and fell from a considerable height," police officials said....
09:21 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Le Bourget (France): French air accident investigators say a combination of mistakes by inadequately trained pilots and faulty equipment caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The BEA air accident investigation agency is recommending better training for pilots and stricter plane certification rules as a result of its three-year probe into the crash of Flight 447. The report lists a...
07:15 PM, Jul 05, 2012
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02:32 PM, Jun 21, 2012
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Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft....
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