Nepali hospital staff began the grim task of handing over bodies to grieving families on Tuesday after a plane with 72 people on board crashed, the country’s worst aviation disaster in three decades. The Yeti Airlines flight with 68 passengers and four crew plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames […]
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Russian military jet crash leaves 13 dead as search ends
At least 13 people, including three children, were killed after a Russian military jet crashed into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwest Russia near the border with Ukraine, Moscow authorities said Tuesday as search operations ended. The ministry of emergency situations said in a statement that rescuers had completed the search of […]
Pilots survive as training plane crashes in Lahore
LAHORE: The pilot and trainee pilot of a training aircraft survived with minor injuries after the plane crashed in Lahore’s Garden Town area on Tuesday. According to details, trainer Muhammad Faheem and co-pilot Hisham suffered minor wounds as their training aircraft crashed near Kalma Chowk area. The aircraft crashed into a wall in the residential […]
Bangladeshi passenger plane with 67 passengers crashes in Nepal
KATHMANDU: A Bangladeshi plane with 67 passengers on board crashed near Kathmandu airport on Monday as it was coming in to land, officials said, as firefighters battled to extinguish the burning wreckage and rescue passengers. Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the football pitch where the plane crashed, to the east of […]
Plane crashes in Iran killing all 66 aboard
TEHRAN: An Iranian passenger plane on a domestic flight crashed into the country’s Zagros mountains on Sunday killing all 66 people on board, officials said. The Aseman Airlines flight left Tehran’s Mehrabad airport around 0800 (0430 GMT) for the city of Yasuj in Isfahan province, said Mohammad Tabatabai, director of public relations for the airline. […]