Manila,
January 28, 2010
Nine people, including a Philippine Air Force general, were killed on Thursday when a Nomad plane crashed in a residential area in a southern city, officials said.Eight of the fatalities wer...
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BEIRUT,
January 27, 2010
Emergency workers will expand their search radius for the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines jet if they do not find the black boxes on Wednesday, an army official said.Searchers have fanned...
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January 23, 2010
The weather was bad, visibility was poor; there was a technical snag in the helicopter; and the attention of the pilots was distracted for six vital minutes as they searched for correctives in the...
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Hyderabad,
January 22, 2010
A panel probing the fatal crash of Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's chopper has reported that the Aircraft was not airworthy when it was released for flight.
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Washington,
January 6, 2010
A small cargo jet crashed Tuesday outside Chicago, killing the pilot and co-pilot, CNN reported.Laura Witlox, an official at Chicago Executive Airport, told DPA that the Learjet 35A crashed...
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The Hague,
December 30, 2009
The Netherlands will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States to prevent future terrorist attacks like the Christmas Day attempt by a young Nigeria...
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NEW DELHI,
December 28, 2009
In the wake of Friday’s bid by a Nigerian to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight and due to the holiday and festival season, all international and domestic airports in In...
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Washington,
December 27, 2009
All major airports in the US and all America-bound flights around the world have been put on extra security vigil following a failed attempt to destroy a Detroit bound plane. Against this ba...
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Washington,
December 27, 2009
US government officials told that the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a jetliner came to the attention of US intelligence in November when his father went to American embassy in...
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London,
December 23, 2009
A bus overturned on an icy road in southwest England, killing two people and injuring 47 as freezing temperatures disrupted travel across Britain on Wednesday.The bus had been returning fro...
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BEIRUT,
January 28, 2010
A U.S. Navy vessel has detected the flight recorders from a crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet at some 1,300 meters (4,265 feet) under the sea, the Lebanese army said on Thursday.The plane went...
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TEHRAN,
January 25, 2010
A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crashlanded in north-eastern Iran on Sunday injuring at least 46 people, state television reported.The broadcast q...
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YANGON,
January 22, 2010
YANGON A Myanmar Air Force fighter plane crashed on Friday morning while attempting to land at Yangon airport, killing its pilot, an airport official said.An official at Yangon International...
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PARIS,
January 6, 2010
President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered a study of the possible use of full-body scanners at French airports amid growing worldwide security concerns, the interior minister said Wednesday.
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BERLIN,
January 3, 2010
A jet headed for Spain’s Canary Islands came off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany on Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said. The pilot of the Air Berlin Boe...
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New Delhi,
December 29, 2009
Days after an attempted attack on board a Detroit-bound American plane, security at Indian airports is being beefed up with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) deciding to have a re-look...
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Detroit,
December 27, 2009
A man who claimed to be an agent of Al-Qaeda was charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day as it was preparing to land in Detroit, said official...
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Jaipur,
December 27, 2009
Habib, 25, an Indian national working in Medina airport in Saudi Arabia, boarded an Air India flight without ticket and passport after hiding in the plane’s toilet for half an hour
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Washington,
December 27, 2009
US President Barack Obama, who vacations in Hawaii, on Saturday continued to monitor the situation arising out of a failed attempt to blow up a US plane midair and convened a second conference cal...
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PARIS,
December 22, 2009
French aviation investigators say they are optimistic of finding the black boxes of crashed Air France Flight 447 when a third phase of research begins in February.BEA chief Jean-Paul Troade...
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