Thiruvananthapuram: The Mangalore airport crash last year was one of the worst the country has seen. A similar accident is waiting to happen at the Calicut airport, according to a report by the Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council, accessed by CNN-IBN. In the May 22 crash last year, over 150 people died after an Air India Express plane overshot the runway at Mangalore Airport. The airport has a table top...
11:01 AM, Aug 05, 2011
Mau: A single-seater Jaguar fighter aircraft crashed on Thursday afternoon, killing its pilot and a girl working in an agricultural field, the second IAF plane to meet with an accident this week. The deep penetration strike aircraft, which had taken off from Gorakhpur airbase at 12:10 pm, crashed in the field in Dilahi Firozpur village, about 50 kms from the district headquarters, DIG Azamgarh L Ravi Kumar said. It burst...
03:41 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Jakarta: A helicopter chartered by an Australian mining company slammed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia, killing all 10 passengers and crew, the head of the search and rescue team said Thursday. The Bell 412 - carrying two Australians, two South Africans and six Indonesians - lost contact with authorities Wednesday afternoon minutes after takeoff from the city of Manado on Sulawesi island, said Lucky Pondaag, an airport spokesman. It...
12:08 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Beijing: China's media are curbing combative reporting of a high-speed train disaster after what observers said were orders from the ruling Communist Party's propaganda arm to stop criticism that has echoed public outrage over the tragedy. For a week, many Chinese newspapers defied censorship orders and pursued unusually aggressive reporting of the crash on July 23 that killed at least 40 people on two high-speed trains, a technology the government...
09:16 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Trapper creek: Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaskan lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane landed safely despite significant damage. The Cessna 180 was destroyed by the impact and fire, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told. "It was engulfed in flames on the ground," Alaska State Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said. The crash...
06:36 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Georgetown: A Caribbean Airlines jet coming from New York crashed and broke in two while landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard on Saturday, causing several injuries but no deaths, said President Bharrat Jagdeo. The Boeing 737-800 apparently overshot the 2,200-meter runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in rainy weather and barreled through a chain-link fence. It barely missed a 60-meter ravine that could have resulted in dozens of fatalities,...
08:20 AM, Jul 31, 2011
Georgetown: A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York touched down on rainy runway, then slid through a chain-link fence and broke apart just short of a ravine on Saturday in Guyana. Miraculously there were no immediate reports of death among the 163 people aboard, despite several dozen of injuries. Passengers aboard Flight 523 said they had begun to applaud the pilot's landing in the South American country when suddenly things...
11:56 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Le Bourget, France: French investigators describe a string of unexplained pilot errors and unreliable equipment in a report on the 2009 crash of an Air France plane in the Atlantic. Based on its probe into the crash so far, the French air accident investigation agency is recommending mandatory training for all pilots to help them fly planes manually and handle a high-altitude stall. The BEA agency released a summary of...
04:00 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Seattle: In honor of her 9th birthday, Rachel Beckwith asked friends and family to donate money to bring clean water to an African village. Rachel was close to meeting her goal of raising $300 when she died last week after a car accident. In her memory, strangers have now made her dream come true many times over. By Wednesday afternoon, some 10,000 people had donated more than $400,000 to "charity:...
02:22 PM, Jul 28, 2011
Rabat: A C-130 military transport plane crashed into a Moroccan mountain on Tuesday in bad weather, killing 78 people, the state news agency said. It said there were three survivors. The crash in a southern region close to the disputed Western Sahara was this country's deadliest in years. Information Minister Khaled Naciri told that the military believes 78 were killed but that searches are ongoing for all the bodies. The...
10:35 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Beijing: A toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed at least 35 people and injured more than 190 others, state media reported. Xinhua News Agency said the unconscious child was found early Sunday evening while rescuers were clearing one of the train cars just as the cleanup efforts were almost completed. It cited an unnamed firefighter in its report on...
04:47 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Beijing: Facing media fury over the deadly bullet train crash that left 35 people dead and 192 wounded, Chinese Railway has promised transparent probe while admitting that there are several missing people still to be accounted for. The ministry spokesman Wang Yongping found it difficult to handle the volley of questions by the media that was fired up by critical comments by microbloggers at an unlike press conference Chinese officials...
03:12 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Beijing: China's first bullet train crash, less than a month after the launch of Beijing-Shanghai train with much fanfare may dash Beijing's multi-billion dollar plans to expand high speed train network at home besides making the technology a mainstay of its future exports. Chinese government went all out to ensure massive publicity to the June 30 launch of the Beijing-Shanghai fast train which covered the distance of over 1300 km...
02:36 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Beijing: A bullet train crashed into another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightning in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct and killing at least 35 people and injuring 191 others, state media and an official said on Sunday. It was the first derailment on China's high-speed rail network since the country launched bullet trains in 2007 with a top speed of 155...
08:53 AM, Jul 24, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that the victims of May 2010 Mangalore air crash that claimed the lives of 158 people will now be entitled to an interim compensation of Rs 75 lakh each. This came on a petition filed by the Mangalore Air Crash Victims Families Association after Air India offered a victim's father Rs 35 lakh as compensation. The association's plea says international norms mandate a...
12:38 PM, Jul 20, 2011
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
