Strong winds have created serious problems at Rhodes airport. The pilot of the plane made a lot of efforts and tried to land, despite the gale, but at the last moment, before the landing gear touched the ground, he changed his mind. The incident occurred with the flight of the Finnish company Finn Air. The […]
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Plane crash in China: rescuers did not find any living or dead bodies at the crash site of Boeing 737
Under adverse weather conditions, the operation of Chinese rescuers to locate the passengers and crew of the crashed Boeing 737 of China Eastern Airlines continues. Airplane crashed in the south of the country, in a mountainous area. At the crash site, only the wreckage of the aircraft and a few personal items were found. There […]
F-16 crash: pilot ejected on the runway of Andravida airbase
A Greek Air Force F-16 fighter crashed at the Andravida military base in the western Peloponnese on Thursday afternoon. According to preliminary reports from the scene, the pilot successfully ejected from the plane before the crash and was in “good health.” The incident occurred at 15:49 on Thursday during the landing at Andravida airbase. it […]
See Earth from space and … die
One of the Blue Origin astronauts who flew into space a month ago, 49-year-old businessman Glen de Vries, died in a plane crash. As CNN reports, on November 11, a light-engine plane crashed near New York, in the state of New Jersey. According to state police, the plane crashed in a forest near the town […]
USSR: the passion of the pilots cost the lives of 70 passengers
Today marks 35 years since the horrific disaster – 70 Tu-134 passengers died because of a bet between the pilots. Gazeta.ru reminds of the catastrophe, telling about that tragic day: “35 years ago, when landing at the Kuibyshev airport, there was a plane crash that had no analogues in the world aviation. landing and the […]
The most mysterious terrorist attack is half a century old
Fifty years ago, a plane crash occurred in the Soviet Union, the grounds for which have not yet been established. The perpetrators of the terrorist act are also unknown. An airplane crashed in the Moscow region, on board of which an explosive device was used. The Tu-104B airliner flew to Simferopol from the Moscow Vnukovo […]
A witness in the Netanyahu case was on board the plane that crashed in Greece
An important detail emerged in the Cessna 172 crash near Samos on September 13: one of the passengers who died was a prosecution witness in the case of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The tragedy took place on Monday 13 September in the evening, over the Aegean Sea near the island of Samos, where […]
Russia: there are no survivors of the An-26 plane crash
The plane, flying from the Russian Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana, crashed in a rocky area, and the debris scattered across the Sea of Okhotsk. All 22 passengers and 6 crew members are dead. The Investigative Committee is considering three main versions of the disaster – weather conditions, technical damage, crew error. Specialists who […]
Russia: plane crash with parachutists
In the Kemerovo region of Russia, a plane with paratroopers made a hard landing. There were 24 people on board: 9 were killed, including 2 pilots, 15 were injured. This is a light-engine aircraft of the L-410 type, which took off from the Tanai airfield. During the flight, one of the engines failed, which caused […]