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A pilot and trainee successfully executed an emergency landing on a beach near Virginia Airport after experiencing engine failure, with no injuries reported.
On Sunday, a microlight crashed near Groutville, prompting a rapid response from IPSS Medical Rescue, who stabilised the seriously injured pilot before transporting him to a medical facility.
A Swiss International Airlines cabin crew member on an aeroplane forced to make an emergency landing due to smoke inside the aircraft has died, the flag carrier said on Monday.
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok to South Korea crashed on arrival December 29, leaving 167 confirmed dead, with a bird strike and adverse weather conditions cited as likely causes.
A plane crash in South Korea has left 96 people dead, with only two survivors rescued so far.
FlySafair flight FA424 was diverted to OR Tambo after a bird strike on departure from Lanseria.
A pilot has been injured after a light aircraft crash landed at Durban’s Beachwood Golf Club in Durban North on Thursday afternoon.
A stolen helicopter has crashed into a hotel in Cairns killing the pilot and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of guests.
A passenger plane crashed on take-off in Kathmandu on July 24, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage but all 18 others aboard killed.
Gauteng MEC of Education Matome Chiloane has urged parents to check the conditions of the scholar transportations following a horror crash involving an “overloaded” vehicle carrying learners was hit by a bakkie, claiming the lives of 12 learners and their driver in Carletonville on Wednesday morning.
Some of the worst air disasters have been caused from human error.
After take-off, ground staff at OR Tambo reported witnessing what appeared to be damage to one of the aircraft back wheels.
Boeing has been in the headlines a recently following a series of incidents after the January Alaska Airlines near-miss in which a door panel came off mid-flight.
The hiker and her family were walking between India Venster and Platteklip Gorge when she stepped awkwardly and tumbled 15 metres from the trail.
With the international space race back on in hopes of expanding man’s footprint on other planets, Japan’s Tokyo-based Space One's 18-metre Kairos rocket blew up seconds after it launched
Sri Lankan airlines grounded a plane for three days and blamed it on a rat, sparking delays and fear among investors for the ailing national carrier.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has led the messages of condolences for Nigeria’s Access Bank Group CEO Herbert Wigwe.
A young woman on her last aircraft assessment died when the aircraft crashed in Kroonstad.
“It is important to not push the limit when you are operating in unfavourable weather conditions. It requires a high level of skill and highly skilled personnel,” says a former military pilot.
Delta Airlines Flight 194 from Atlanta in the US to Barcelona in Spain had to turn around mid-flight after a passenger suffered an extreme case of diarrhoea.
The identities of all 10 people killed in the plane crash in Russia's Tver Region have been established and they correspond to the list on the flight manifest.
Vladimir Putin said that he knew Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for a long time, and described him as a talented person of difficult fate.
"We have nothing to do with this. Everyone understands who is involved," Zelenskyy told reporters, as quoted by the UNIAN news agency.
Investigators are on their way to the private plane crash site in Russia’s Tver Region to determine what caused the accident, the Investigative Committee said on Wednesday, adding that a criminal case has been initiated.
A total of eight bodies have been found at the crash site of a private plane in Russia’s Tver Region on Wednesday, the emergency services told Sputnik. The search and rescue operation is ongoing.