Sao Paulo: A regional airliner crashed in a northeastern city in Brazil on Wednesday, killing all 16 people on board, the nation's Air Force said. Witnesses said at least one of the passengers was pleading for help after the plane made a hard landing, gesturing through a window to onlookers, but the aircraft burst into flames before aid could arrive. The crew of the twin-turboprop aircraft belonging to Noar Airlines...
05:11 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Kinshasa: Fifty-three people were feared dead on Friday after a plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather at Kisangani airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese airline operating the flight said. "The pilot tried to land but apparently they didn't touch the runway," Stavros Papaioannou, chief executive of Hewa Bora airline, told Reuters by telephone. "Fifty-three dead, that is the last figure I have," he...
09:12 PM, Jul 08, 2011
Philadelphia: Actor Ryan Dunn, a star of the 'Jackass' movie franchise, died early on Monday in Pennsylvania when the 2007 Porsche he was driving careened off a highway and burst into flames. An unidentified passenger also died in the crash at 2:38 a.m. local time, authorities said. Police in West Goshen Township, a western suburb of Philadelphia, said they found the car off the road in a wooded area. They...
12:18 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Moscow: At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 km from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk at about 1940 GMT on Monday. "The preliminary...
07:37 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Washington: An Indian-American doctor couple from New Jersey was killed when their single-engine plane crashed into an Ohio cornfield and burst into flames shortly after takeoff on Sunday. Viswanathan Rajaraman, the 54-year-old pilot, and Mary J Sundaram, his 50-year-old wife and the only passenger, were attempting to take off from Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus when the incident happened just before 9 am, nj.com reported citing Ohio State Highway Patrol....
11:33 AM, Jun 20, 2011
The plane went down and burst into flames in Illinois on Tuesday. All the seven on board were able to walk away safe. ...
10:30 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Islamabad/Lahore: Four persons, including a top official of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers, were feared killed when a helicopter crashed into the Indus river in Punjab province on Wednesday. Maj Gen Muhammad Nawaz, the provincial head of the Pakistan Rangers, his son Capt Asif Nawaz, a pilot and a technician were on board the helicopter when it crashed on Wednesday morning in bad weather, an official spokesman said. The general's son...
08:34 PM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: Fresh guidelines have been issued to pilots and air traffic controllers on ways to handle unexpected events like systems malfunction, communication trouble or weather-related problems, as was witnessed in the Faridabad aircrash that claimed 10 lives. Rules have also been framed to counter the problem of fatigue among ATC officers and pilots, apart from their general working conditions. While several helicopters crashed in bad weather across the country,...
09:45 AM, May 29, 2011
Paris: Pilots wrestled with the controls of an Air France airliner for more than four minutes before it plunged into the Atlantic with its nose up, killing all 228 people on board, French investigators said on Friday. Aviation industry sources told Reuters pilots appeared to have acted contrary to normal procedures in raising, rather than lowering, its nose in response to an alert that the the plane was about to...
10:37 PM, May 27, 2011
CNN-IBN has accessed the Air Traffic Control conversation with the single engine PC 12 aircraft. Listen in to what happened minutes before the ill-fated air ambulance plummeted. ...
09:09 PM, May 26, 2011
A day after the fatal air crash reported, fear still lingers on in the tiny bylanes of Faridabad. ...
08:57 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: The preliminary report on the plane crash in Faridabad in which 10 people - seven on board the ill-fated aircraft and three on ground - were killed says that the engine of the P-12 turboprop aircraft was fine and it was the turbulent weather that led to the tragedy. The investigation into the crash is being carried out independently and not by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...
05:54 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: When 20-year-old Rahul Raj was airlifted from Patna his family thought they could save his life. But ironically that was not to be. Rahul Raj had gone into coma after suffering from jaundice. On Wednesday, his doctors advised his family to get him airlifted to the Apollo hospital in Delhi. He was accompanied by his cousin Ratnesh. Rahul's uncle said, "Rahul's father and I boarded the evening flight to ...
04:22 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: When 20-year-old Rahul Raj was airlifted from Patna his family thought they could save his life. But ironically that was not to be. Rahul Raj had gone into coma after suffering from jaundice. On Wednesday, his doctors advised his family to get him airlifted to the Apollo hospital in Delhi. He was accompanied by his cousin Ratnesh. Rahul's uncle said, "Rahul's father and I boarded the evening flight to...
04:22 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: EMSOS Medical Private Limited Director Dr Navneet Singh said that the plane is considered to be a very useful and safe aircraft. "It is a very safe aircraft, very useful for emergency services. We have been in worse weather so it's hard to tell what happened. This aircraft has been used to travel to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, all over India," Singh said. "Even though it is a single ...
03:25 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: EMSOS Medical Private Limited Director Dr Navneet Singh said that the plane is considered to be a very useful and safe aircraft. "It is a very safe aircraft, very useful for emergency services. We have been in worse weather so it's hard to tell what happened. This aircraft has been used to travel to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, all over India," Singh said. "Even though it is a single...
03:25 PM, May 26, 2011
Srinagar: A 27-year-old Kashmiri doctor specialising in emergency medicine was among the 10 people killed when an air ambulance crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Faridabad. Syed Arshad Abbas was working as an emergency medical officer with the hospital, the sources told IANS. He was on board the air ambulance when it crashed Faridabad Wednesday night, a senior doctor told IANS on phone. Abbas belonged to Nowlari village near Pattan ...
02:21 PM, May 26, 2011
Srinagar: A 27-year-old Kashmiri doctor specialising in emergency medicine was among the 10 people killed when an air ambulance crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Faridabad. Syed Arshad Abbas was working as an emergency medical officer with the hospital, the sources told IANS. He was on board the air ambulance when it crashed Faridabad Wednesday night, a senior doctor told IANS on phone. Abbas belonged to Nowlari village near Pattan...
02:21 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: It was a beautiful windy Wednesday night with residents of Parvatiya colony in Faridabad getting ready to go to bed when a bright light and an unusual sound from the sky jolted them out of their slumber. The light and the sound came from an air ambulance crashing into the residential colony resulting in 10 people being killed. The air ambulance was carrying Rahul Raj, a critical patient suffering...
01:28 PM, May 26, 2011
