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SF Gate
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Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel Hafez Abdel Rahim..
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SF Gate
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U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a Congolese jetliner careened off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 on the ground.
Airline officials s..
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CNN
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Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scraped its wing on the ground during a landing attempt in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend, an airline spokesman said Monday. The plane recovered and landed safely the second time around, the spokes..
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CNN
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Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group said. The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emerge..
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BBC News
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All 56 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in south-western Turkey have died, the airline's chief executive has said.
Initial reports from rescue helicopter teams found no survivors, said Tuncay Doganer, head of Atlasjet.
The McDonnell Do..
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CNN
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All 56 people onboard a Turkish plane that crashed in southern Turkey early Friday are believed to have been killed, according to the airline's chief executive officer. The cause of the crash is not yet known. "Search groups have not seen any survivors as..
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BBC News
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A plane has crashed in the east of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.
The Antonov 26 cargo plane owned by the Congolese airline, Africa 1, came down in the Kingasani residential area near Ndili airport around 1030..
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CNN
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Survivors of the plane crash in southern Thailand have told of the horror they faced as the aircraft that was supposed to be taking them on vacation careered off the rain-soaked runway and smashed into a hillside in a ball of fire. As flames spread throug..
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BBC News
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A Taiwanese China Airlines plane burst into flames after landing on Japan's island of Okinawa but all 165 people on board are safe, officials say.
All the passengers and crew had just been evacuated when the fire broke out on the Boeing 737-800 at Naha..
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BBC News
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A passenger plane has crashed and burst into flames at Brazil's busiest airport, in the heart of Sao Paulo, killing up to 200 people.
Rescue crews said none of the 176 people on board the Airbus A320 could have survived, while more people were killed o..
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News.com.au
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A PLANE-load of prisoners from British jails could be headed Down Under more than 200 years after Britain first sent boats full of convicts to Australia...
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BBC News
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Six Somalis accused of taking a luxury yacht's crew hostage have arrived in Paris on a military plane to face questioning, judicial sources said.
They were detained on Friday by French commandos in a helicopter raid soon after pirates released 30 hosta..
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MSNBC
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Rescue crews were sent Friday to find a commercial airliner carrying 46 people that disappeared in southwestern Venezuela. Officials feared the worst after residents reported hearing a crash in the mountains.
The flight was reported missing 30 minutes..
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SF Gate
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A 12-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in Panama is "doing quite well" following her return to California, while dealing with the devastating loss of her close friend, her mother said.
Francesca Lewis of Santa Barbara has been re..
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CNN
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The parents of the sole survivor of a plane crash in Panama have been reunited with their daughter at the hospital where she is receiving treatment, a nurse said early Thursday. Kirk and Valerie Lewis of Santa Barbara, California, arrived Wednesday at the..
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MSNBC
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Off course?
Semsettin Uzun, the governor of Isparta, said the crash site was not on the plane’s regular flight route. “It is impossible to understand how the plane” ended up there, said Uzun, who viewed the site from a helicopter.
Local offici..
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MSNBC
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A Russian-made cargo plane with 17 people on board crashed and exploded on Thursday in a teeming neighborhood of Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, killing many people, officials and witnesses said.
Airport officer Appo Ilunga said the..
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CNN
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A cargo plane crashed in a residential neighborhood of Congo's capital Thursday morning, airport officials said. Airport officer Appo Ilunga said the Antonov 26 crashed into a market area of the Kingasani neighborhood around 10:30 a.m. He said he did not..
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BBC News
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Investigators probing a plane crash at a Thai tourist resort say they have found the aircraft's flight recorders.
At least 89 people were killed when the plane, operated by Thai budget airline One-Two-Go, skidded off a runway in heavy rain on the islan..
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USA Today
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Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 89 people — mostly foreigners — on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.
The budget O..
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