A plane carrying 62 individuals crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil, on Friday, resulting in no survivors, according to local TV station GloboNews. The ATR-72 aircraft, operated by Voepass Linhas Aéreas, was on a flight from Cascavel in Paraná to Guarulhos in São Paulo. Local authorities and rescue teams confirmed the unfortunate incident. All 62 individuals on … Read more
A passenger plane with 61 people aboard crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all aboard, the airline said. The airline VOEPASS earlier had reported that 62 people were aboard the flight that crashed in Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, but later updated the … Read more
Mountainous Nepal, where a small plane carrying 19 passengers caught fire during takeoff in the capital on Wednesday, has a sorry history of deadly air crashes. Before Wednesday’s crash, nearly 360 people had been killed in the country in 19 air crashes since 2000. Here are details of plane and helicopter crashes this century in … Read more
The former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo in 1968, showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space, has died in a plane crash. Retired Major General William Anders was killed on Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in … Read more
The incident took place at the Beja Air Show Lisbon: Two small planes collided midair Sunday during an air show performance in southern Portugal, the air force said, with media reporting that one of the pilots was killed. “The air force regrets to announce that at 4:05 pm (1505 GMT), at the Beja Air Show, … Read more
Ten people were killed on Tuesday when two helicopters collided mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade, the navy said in a statement. All 10 were crew members aboard the aircraft involved in the accident, which occurred at the Lumut naval base in the western state of Perak at 9.32am local time … Read more
The couple were well-known Israeli tech investors and entrepreneurs living in California Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Liron Petrushka and his wife Naomi were killed in a plane crash in California, the Guardian reported. The incident happened on Saturday night when the couple’s plane crashed as they were attempting to land at Truckee Tahoe airport in Northern California near … Read more
The plane collided with a car parked on the road near the aerodrome in Spa (Representational) Brussels: Two people died Sunday when a light aircraft crashed into a car as it was attempting to land in high winds at an aerodrome in eastern Belgium, police said. The landing failed and the plane collided with a … Read more
Christian Oliver died aboard a privately owned, one-engine aircraft Thursday. Los Angeles: German-born Hollywood actor Christian Oliver was killed along with his two young daughters as their small plane plummeted into the Caribbean Sea moments after takeoff, local police said. Oliver, who appeared on the big screen with George Clooney in “The Good German” and … Read more
J A Bayona’s Society of Snow, which hits Netflix today, is a Spanish-language retelling of the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster. The critically acclaimed movie stunned at the Venice International Film Festival last year and has been shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars this year. On October 13, 1972, a flight chartered from … Read more
