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15 Hurt as JetBlue Flight Catches Fire

Tires pop, flames erupt in rough Sacramento landing

(Newser) - Fifteen passengers were injured yesterday when a JetBlue flight caught on fire during a hard landing in Sacramento. "Get out, get out, get out!" flight attendants yelled as they deployed escape chutes, recounted a passenger. "I looked back under the plane, and it was on fire, and...

N. Korea Fighter Pilot Killed in an Apparent Defection

Plane went down in Chinese corn field

(Newser) - This much seems clear: A North Korean fighter jet crashed into a corn field in China. (See the Wall Street Journal for photos.) Beyond that lies a ton of speculation, but the wires generally agree on this storyline: It was a lone pilot who tried to defect from Kim...

Photos Released From Stevens Crash as Survivors Speak

'They just stopped flying'

(Newser) - The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released photos from the site of the crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and four others, as investigators spoke with two of the four survivors. According to the chair of the NTSB, they did not report hearing weird noises, nor did they...

The Horrific Scene of the Stevens Crash
 The Horrific Scene 
 of the Stevens Crash 
WEATHER EYED AS CAUSE
Aug 11, 2010 1:03 PM CDT

The Horrific Scene of the Stevens Crash

Survivors lay in mangled wreckage as chilled rain fell

(Newser) - When Ted Stevens and his companions left their lodge, they thought they were headed for a quick trip to a salmon fishing camp. When they hadn’t arrived hours later, the lodge sent out search planes, who quickly found a horrific scene, the AP reports. The nose of the plane...

Ex-NASA Chief, Son Survive Plane Crash

Sean O'Keefe among survivors of crash that killed Stevens

(Newser) - Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe survived the plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens, an ex-NASA spokesman says. O'Keefe's teenage son, Kevin, also was among the four survivors. The plane crashed Monday night near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing five. The former spokesman for the...

5 Killed, 4 Survive in Crash of Ted Stevens' Plane

Ex-senator's fate unknown; ex-head of NASA was among passengers

(Newser) - Five people are thought to be dead in a plane that went down in rural Alaska last night with former Sen. Ted Stevens believed to be aboard, reports the AP. The NTSB reports that there are four survivors, but it's not known if the senator is among them. Former NASA...

Plane Crashes in Alaska's Denali Park

All 3 on board dead

(Newser) - A cargo plane crashed in Denali National Park in Alaska, killing all three people on board and sparking a forest fire. "The plane pretty much disintegrated," said a park spokeswoman. Members of the National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive on the scene today. Identities of the...

Plane Carrying 152 Crashes in Pakistan
  152  Die as Plane 
  Crashes in Pakistan 
2 Americans on board
Jul 28, 2010 6:25 AM CDT

152 Die as Plane Crashes in Pakistan

Jet goes down outside Islamabad in heavy rain

(Newser) - There were no survivors among the 152 passengers and crew on board an Airblue plane that crashed into hills near the Pakistani capital this morning. The Airbus 321, flying from Karachi to Islamabad, lost contact with the control tower as it was about to land, a local official told AP...

Families Mark 10th Anniversary of Concorde Crash

Verdict of trial expected in December

(Newser) - Some 100 family members, witnesses, and Air France officials today marked 10 years since a Concorde jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, plowing into a hotel. Air France flew in family members from Germany, where most of the victims were from, and gave them flowers to...

Brother of Bombing Victim Hurt in Plane Crash

Two injured, one killed in single-engine crash

(Newser) - Yesterday was a bad day to be a member of the Henn family. First, 25-year-old Nate Henn was killed in a bombing in Uganda . Then his brother Kyle, 22, tried to rush home to mourn with his family, but the single-engine plane he was in crashed at a North Carolina...

Child Killed in Plane Crash Near Downtown Anchorage

Bystanders rush to save passengers

(Newser) - A young child was killed and 4 other people injured when a small plane crashed into one of the busiest streets in Anchorage during rush hour yesterday. The Cessna clipped a motel before smashing into a vacant car dealership, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Dozens of witnesses and passing motorists...

Black Boxes Found in India Crash

Air India won't speculate on cause of crash

(Newser) - Investigators searching for clues as to what caused India's worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder today from the charred remains of an Air India flight. The crash yesterday of the Boeing 737-800, which overshot a hilltop runway in southern...

8 Survivors in India Plane Crash

The other 158 aboard were killed

(Newser) - A glimmer of positive news from today's plane crash in India: Eight people somehow survived. The other 158 aboard were killed when the Air India Express jet overshot the runway at a tricky hilltop airport in Mangalore, crashed over a cliff, and burst into flames. An Associated Press photo showed...

Jilted JetBlue Pilot 'Threatened to Crash Plane'

He's now out for 'health reasons'

(Newser) - In what may be the worst possible way to convince your ex to take you back, a JetBlue pilot allegedly emailed his girlfriend saying he'd crash the plane he was scheduled to fly out of Boston yesterday if she didn't reconcile with him. The pilot was taken into custody at...

Passengers Were in Cockpit of Polish Plane

Bolsters theory that the pilots were pressured to land

(Newser) - Passengers were in the cockpit of the plane carrying the Polish president before it crashed, say Russian investigators. The flight recorder has revealed the presence of one person who has been identified (the identity hasn't been made public), and at least one other, who "will be identified by the...

Libya Plane Crash Survivor Gets OK to Leave Hospital

Assouw told about his parents, brother

(Newser) - The sole survivor of the plane crash that killed 103 people Wednesday will leave a Tripoli hospital tomorrow. Relatives have broken the news to 9-year-old Ruben van Assouw that his parents and older brother died in the crash, ABC News reports. "Under the circumstances Ruben is doing well,"...

Crash Survivor Doesn't Know He's an Orphan

But his aunt and uncle have arrived

(Newser) - Details continue to emerge on the ill-fated passengers on the Afrqiyah Airlines flight that crashed in Tripoli—including the heartbreaking detail that the lone survivor, 9-year-old Ruben van Assouw, has not yet been told that his parents and brother died in the crash. Also among the dead is Bree O'Mara,...

Lone Child Survives Libya Plane Crash, 103 Die

8-year-old boy believed to be only survivor from Afriqiyah Airways flight

(Newser) - Over 100 people were killed today when an Afriqiyah Airways flight from Johannesburg crashed at Libya's Tripoli Airport. Authorities say at least 93 passengers and 11 crew were on board the Airbus A330 when it crashed while trying to land, Reuters reports. The only survivor was an 8-year-old Dutch boy,...

Campaign Banner Downs UK Candidate's Plane

Nigel Farage hospitalized after light aircraft crashes

(Newser) - UK Independence Party candidate Nigel Farage had to be cut from the wreckage of an aircraft after his last-minute quest for votes in today's election ended in disaster. Farage, who was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, had taken to the skies in a two-seater aircraft towing a party banner. The plane...

Poland Holds Memorial for Crash Victims

Thousands mass as 2 days of mourning begin

(Newser) - Church bells pealed and emergency sirens blared across Poland at 8:56am local time today to mark the minute a week earlier that a plane crashed as it attempted to land in Russia, claiming the life of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and 94 others. Thousands of Poles massed...

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