New Delhi: A probe into last year's crash of an air ambulance in Faridabad has found that strong gust of wind and very rough weather had caused the accident that claimed 10 lives, including that of a patient it was carrying to Delhi from Patna. The small Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, which was converted into an air ambulance, had crashed into two houses in the Parvatia colony of Faridabad at 10:43...
07:58 PM, May 01, 2012
Bucharest: A helicopter crashed in eastern Romania on Thursday, killing all five people it was carrying, officials said. The aircraft was traveling from Moldova to Turkey when it went down near the Romanian village of Ostrov, close to the Moldova border, local official Vasile Gudu told Realitatea TV. Police spokeswoman Daniela Condrea told The Associated Press nobody survived the crash. Air traffic control official Bogdan Donciu identified the aircraft as...
12:12 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials on Saturday promised a full investigation into the crash of a domestic flight that killed 127 people, saying they were examining all possibilities, from a technical fault to the age of the Boeing 737. Grieving relatives claiming the remains of loved ones at a hospital expressed grief and anger over the crash in a storm as the plane approached Islamabad on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan's commercial...
09:23 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Islamabad: Hope is fading for news of any survivor in the plane crash in Pakistan as over 12 hours has passed since the incident. Over 127 people were on board the Bhoja Air Boeing 737. The flight had taken off on Friday evening from Karachi and crashed 9 km away from Islamabad, most likely due to bad weather. Meanwhile, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that an FIR will...
08:12 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said the authorities are trying to retrieve the black box of the Boeing 737 aircraft. ...
09:30 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: A civilian plane crashed in the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad near Chaklala airbase due to bad weather and all 127 people on board the flight are feared dead. The Bhoja Airlines-213, a domestic carrier that has just four planes and only resumed operations last month after suspending them in 2001 due to financial difficulties, was flying from Karachi to Islamabad. There were 127 people on...
08:04 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Toronto: A sleepy Air Canada pilot who mistakenly believed his jet was about to crash into a US military plane forced a sudden dive that caused 16 injuries among passengers and crew on a transatlantic flight, a report says. The Transportation Safety Board report released on Monday describes the 46 seconds in which the plane dived and lurched back up during an overnight Air Canada flight from Toronto to Zurich...
02:35 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt. The isolated North, using the launch to celebrate the 100th birthday of the dead founding president Kim Il-sung and mark the rise to power of his grandson Kim...
02:37 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Washington: A US Navy F/A-18D fighter crashed soon after take-off into an apartment complex in Virginia on Friday, sending fireballs into the sky, heavily damaging half-a-dozen buildings and injuring nine people. All the injuries, including those to the F/A-18 crew, were minor, officials said, but the search of the Mayfair Mews apartment complex was not complete. Both crew members ejected from the aircraft before it crashed into the buildings in...
05:30 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli escaped unhurt after being involved in a car crash on Thursday. Police said officers responded to reports of a collision between two cars shortly after 3:15pm at Deansgate Locks in Manchester city centre. City said no one was injured in the incident and that Balotelli, who was driving a Bentley, was not at fault. According to reports, Balotelli was shook up after the incident...
09:03 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Moscow: A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off on Monday morning, killing 32 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 11 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition. The ATR-72, a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop, operated by UTair was flying from Tyumen to the oil town of Surgut with 39 passengers and four crew. The aircraft went down on a snowy field outside Tyumen, a...
09:08 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: A Mirage 2000 fighter plane of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near a village in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Monday, soon after taking off from an airbase in Gwalior, in a second mishap involving the aircraft type in 11 days. The pilot managed to eject safely, IAF officials said. This is the second crash involving a Mirage-2000 aircraft since February 24. "The crash took place 100...
02:19 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Warsaw: Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into how a train ended up on the wrong tracks after two engines collided head on late on Saturday, killing 15 people and leaving 54 in hospitals. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the accident the most tragic train catastrophe in Poland in recent years after visiting the site in the early hours of Sunday. He said it was too soon to say what...
02:17 PM, Mar 04, 2012
London: Marussia will miss Formula One's final pre-season test in Barcelona this week because their new car has failed a mandatory crash test, the Russian-licensed team said on Monday. Marussia, formerly Virgin Racing, said the MR01 car had failed the final test after passing 17 previous ones. Under new rules introduced this season, cars must have passed all 18 tests before they are allowed to run in the pre-season sessions....
11:28 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Buenos Aires: A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said. Passengers told of chaos and panic as the impact of the collision propelled the second train car into the first carriage, trapping dozens of people as others looked on from...
01:27 AM, Feb 23, 2012
A young man died in Delhi last Sunday after his Lamborghini lost control and crashed into a road divider, injuring a cyclist seriously. ...
11:50 PM, Feb 22, 2012
A 26-year-old died in the early hours of Sunday when the Lamborghini he was driving crashed at high speed into the railings adjoining a bus stand in south Delhi's BRT corridor. Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, are fast cars turning into urban killers?
12:45 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Hedge funds and professional investors are always looking for countries with lower interest rates where borrowing is cheaper and then invest the same in countries with higher interest rates. Earlier, it was the Japanese yen that gave them this opportunity. After the Lehman crash, the dollar became the funding currency of choice. Investors sold dollars where interest rates were low and purchased currencies like the Indian rupee where the interest...
11:42 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Libreville, Gabon: Zambia returned to the scene of their worst sporting tragedy to make it a place of unrestrained joy after winning a nerve-racking African Cup of Nations final on Sunday on penalties over tournament favorites Ivory Coast. Stophira Sunzu scored the deciding sudden-death spot-kick after Gervinho missed for the Ivorians, giving Zambia a 8-7 win on penalties after the teams were locked at 0-0 through 120 minutes. Zambia's first...
09:05 AM, Feb 13, 2012
