French investigators said on Tuesday that they had recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Friday, August 27, 2010
“We’re about to crash,” BA passengers told in error
British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.
About 275 passengers were on the London Heathrow to Hong Kong flight on Tuesday evening when the automated message went out. The plane was flying over the North Sea at the time.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
China crash kills 42 as plane overshoots runway
A passenger plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in northeast China late yesterday, bursting into flames and killing 42 people of 96 on board, in the nation’s worst air disaster since 2004.
The accident will be a jolt for China’s fast-growing aviation sector, which has had no major accident in recent years, thanks to stricter safety rules, better training and relatively young fleets of mainly Western-made aircraft.
The official Xinhua news agency said Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, the most senior official overseeing safety issues, was headed to the scene of the accident.
The Henan Airlines plane crashed at 9.36pm (1336 GMT) in Yichun, a remote city of one million in Heilongjiang province surrounded by forests, after flying from provincial capital Harbin, Xinhua said.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Lockerbie bomber 'rejected cancer treatment in jail' in desperate bid to secure his release
Celebration: Megrahi returns to Libya with Gaddafi's son
The Lockerbie bomber refused chemotherapy in a Scottish prison in an attempt to make his condition deteriorate and force his release, it was claimed yesterday.
Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was believed to be terminally ill with prostate cancer when he was sent home to Libya on compassionate grounds exactly a year ago.
But since his release Megrahi has responded well to a similar treatment – which is available on the NHS – and there claims that he could live another seven years.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
A year on, Lockerbie bomber casts long shadow
A terminally ill Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has enjoyed a year of freedom at home in a case that has complicated relations between the new British government and the US administration.
Scottish authorities freed Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to return home on August 20 last year on compassionate grounds. Megrahi, who has prostate cancer, was expected to live only three months but has survived, prompting US questions about the medical advice on which the decision was based.
US anger over the release resurfaced after American politicians questioned whether oil giant BP Plc had lobbied Scotland for Megrahi’s release. BP and Scottish ministers have denied the accusations which risked further tarnishing BP’s reputation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Only one dies in Colombia airliner crash ‘miracle’
A Colombian airliner carrying 132 people crashed and broke into pieces while landing on the Caribbean resort island San Andres on Monday during a storm, but only one person died in what police called “a miracle”.
Authorities said 114 passengers were hurt in the predawn crash of the Boeing 737-700 passenger jet operated by local airline Aires, adding that the lone death was due to a heart attack and not injuries from the accident.
A Colombian aviation official said the pilot reported that the plane had been struck by lightning. Witnesses said it was fortunate more people were not killed considering the plane’s fuselage cracked into three parts on impact.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Only one dies in Colombia airliner crash miracle
A Colombian airliner carrying 132 people crashed and broke into pieces while landing on the Caribbean resort island San Andres on Monday during a storm, but only one person died in what police called “a miracle”.
Authorities said 114 passengers were hurt in the predawn crash of the Boeing 737-700 passenger jet operated by local airline Aires, adding that the lone death was due to a heart attack and not injuries from the accident.
A Colombian aviation official said the pilot reported that the plane had been struck by lightning. Witnesses said it was fortunate more people were not killed considering the plane’s fuselage cracked into three parts on impact.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Ex-US Senator Stevens dies in Alaska plane crash
Former US Senator Ted Stevens, who for several years played a leading role in controlling the nation’s purse strings, died with four other people in a small plane crash in his home state of Alaska, officials said yesterday.
Four people survived the crash two nights ago near Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska. Among them was Sean O’Keefe, North American chief of European aerospace giant and Airbus maker EADS, and a former NASA Administrator who was a former aide and longtime friend of Stevens.
O’Keefe’s son, Kevin, also survived, the company said in a statement, but details of their condition were not disclosed.
Monday, August 2, 2010
‘Black box’ recovered from Pakistan crash site
Policemen and soldiers worked through heavy rain to search for bodies and the flight data recorder at the site of the Airblue plane crash in Islamabad’s Margalla Hills on July 29, 2010.
Pakistani investigators found today the data recorder from AirBlue flight 202, which crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad this week killing all 152 people onboard, officials said.
The Airbus 321 crashed on Wednesday into a steep and heavily wooded hillside overlooking the capital shortly before landing after a flight from the southern port city of Karachi.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Poland holds public memorial for crash victims
Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw's main square Saturday for a memorial to the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier, standing silent for two minutes before emergency sirens screamed and church bells pealed.
The crowd in Pilsudski Square waved white-and-red Polish flags with black ribbons of mourning affixed to them. A massive white stage, a large cross in the center, was flanked by oversized photos of the dead, including President Lech Kaczynski.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Small plane safely lands on N.J. Turnpike
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The only casualty was the commute: Near Exit 4 of the New Jersey Turnpike, a single-engine plane that made an emergency landing in the northbound lanes early yesterday is towed.
The engine hiccupped and the plane started to shake. The oil pressure was dropping and they were losing altitude fast. They were going down.
It was then that Frank Vogt made the quick, calm decision to land his twin-seater Cessna 152 on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike in Cherry Hill.
"It wasn't the kind of morning I was expecting," said Vogt, of Oakhurst, Monmouth County, who flies traffic reporters over New Jersey.
It was shortly before the morning rush hour yesterday and traffic was light. Vogt, 28, landed the failing plane south of Exit 4. He navigated it over to the shoulder. Cars passed on his left.
No one was hurt, on the road or in the plane.
"It was surreal," he said. "Everything happened so fast."
The day had started routinely for Vogt, a pilot for Metro Networks Westwood One, which monitors traffic for radio and television stations. He arrived at Northeast Philadelphia Airport at 6 a.m. and performed his usual checks, he said yesterday afternoon in the kitchen of the home he shares with his parents.
Vogt said he twice monitored the fuel and the oil before taking off at 6:15 with Metro Networks traffic reporter Mike Lankford.
The sky was calm with little wind and few clouds. And except for a bang-up on I-95 in Philadelphia, not much was happening on the road.
At 6:45, the sun was red on the horizon and Vogt was 1,300 feet above Route 42 - a normal altitude, he said. That's when the Cessna started to vibrate.
"I looked down at the oil pressure gauge and it was dropping significantly," he recalled.
He turned the plane around, but the power was faltering, Vogt said. He issued a Mayday over an emergency frequency and was told by an air traffic controller that Philadelphia International Airport was seven miles away. South Jersey Regional Airport was four miles away. By that point, the craft had dropped below 1,000 feet.
"We can't make it back," Vogt told the controller.
Vogt has been a pilot for two years. After graduation from Airline Transport Professionals Flight Schools in Florida, he became a certified instructor at American Flyers in Morristown. He's been with Metro since September and has taken the same route many times, he said.
Vogt's life - his days as a La Salle University quarterback and summers as a lifeguard in New Jersey - didn't flash before his eyes. And he did not say his prayers, he said.
"I was like, 'Oh, wow. This is happening,' " he said. "Then it just became instinct. I focused on what I had to do. You're not nervous, because there's so much adrenaline pumping."
Lankford, in the passenger seat, held it together pretty well, too, Vogt said.
For a second, Vogt said, he considered bringing the plane down in a field, but it was still too dark for him to make out the terrain, he said. The highway was lit up.
They were now at 400 feet elevation.
"We're going to land on the Jersey Turnpike," Vogt told the controller.
He found a clear swath of road - no cars behind him, none in front of him - and lined the plane up with the flow of traffic. He glided in for a soft landing, he said. He let the plane coast rather than hitting the brakes, then eased the Cessna to the shoulder. The whole ordeal had lasted about 10 minutes.
"Great job," Vogt remembers the traffic reporter telling him. "Thank you."
Within minutes, he was joined by a state trooper and an FAA official on his way to work.
Oil had leaked underneath and on the side of the plane, Vogt said.
Authorities suspect that "a valve might have popped on the crankshaft that holds the propeller" because of the cold, Vogt said.
According to FAA records, the plane was built in 1981 and is owned by Out of the Blue Inc. in Delaware. Steven Russell, president of the firm, could not be reached for comment.
By 7:30 a.m., authorities had the plane hitched to a truck for towing to a turnpike maintenance yard.
Vogt sat in the cockpit to steer in case it became unhitched. He called his father.
"Turn on the news," he said. "You see a plane being towed?"
"Yes," said his father.
"I'm in it."
"You're a star," his mother texted him.
Back in his parents' kitchen, the phone ringing with calls from the media and worried loved ones, Vogt was looking forward to a beer with some friends, to letting what happened settle in.
He said he wouldn't take any time off.
"This will not deter me one bit," Vogt said. "It happens."
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The only casualty was the commute: Near Exit 4 of the New Jersey Turnpike, a single-engine plane that made an emergency landing in the northbound lanes early yesterday is towed.
The engine hiccupped and the plane started to shake. The oil pressure was dropping and they were losing altitude fast. They were going down.
It was then that Frank Vogt made the quick, calm decision to land his twin-seater Cessna 152 on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike in Cherry Hill.
"It wasn't the kind of morning I was expecting," said Vogt, of Oakhurst, Monmouth County, who flies traffic reporters over New Jersey.
It was shortly before the morning rush hour yesterday and traffic was light. Vogt, 28, landed the failing plane south of Exit 4. He navigated it over to the shoulder. Cars passed on his left.
No one was hurt, on the road or in the plane.
"It was surreal," he said. "Everything happened so fast."
The day had started routinely for Vogt, a pilot for Metro Networks Westwood One, which monitors traffic for radio and television stations. He arrived at Northeast Philadelphia Airport at 6 a.m. and performed his usual checks, he said yesterday afternoon in the kitchen of the home he shares with his parents.
Vogt said he twice monitored the fuel and the oil before taking off at 6:15 with Metro Networks traffic reporter Mike Lankford.
The sky was calm with little wind and few clouds. And except for a bang-up on I-95 in Philadelphia, not much was happening on the road.
At 6:45, the sun was red on the horizon and Vogt was 1,300 feet above Route 42 - a normal altitude, he said. That's when the Cessna started to vibrate.
"I looked down at the oil pressure gauge and it was dropping significantly," he recalled.
He turned the plane around, but the power was faltering, Vogt said. He issued a Mayday over an emergency frequency and was told by an air traffic controller that Philadelphia International Airport was seven miles away. South Jersey Regional Airport was four miles away. By that point, the craft had dropped below 1,000 feet.
"We can't make it back," Vogt told the controller.
Vogt has been a pilot for two years. After graduation from Airline Transport Professionals Flight Schools in Florida, he became a certified instructor at American Flyers in Morristown. He's been with Metro since September and has taken the same route many times, he said.
Vogt's life - his days as a La Salle University quarterback and summers as a lifeguard in New Jersey - didn't flash before his eyes. And he did not say his prayers, he said.
"I was like, 'Oh, wow. This is happening,' " he said. "Then it just became instinct. I focused on what I had to do. You're not nervous, because there's so much adrenaline pumping."
Lankford, in the passenger seat, held it together pretty well, too, Vogt said.
For a second, Vogt said, he considered bringing the plane down in a field, but it was still too dark for him to make out the terrain, he said. The highway was lit up.
They were now at 400 feet elevation.
"We're going to land on the Jersey Turnpike," Vogt told the controller.
He found a clear swath of road - no cars behind him, none in front of him - and lined the plane up with the flow of traffic. He glided in for a soft landing, he said. He let the plane coast rather than hitting the brakes, then eased the Cessna to the shoulder. The whole ordeal had lasted about 10 minutes.
"Great job," Vogt remembers the traffic reporter telling him. "Thank you."
Within minutes, he was joined by a state trooper and an FAA official on his way to work.
Oil had leaked underneath and on the side of the plane, Vogt said.
Authorities suspect that "a valve might have popped on the crankshaft that holds the propeller" because of the cold, Vogt said.
According to FAA records, the plane was built in 1981 and is owned by Out of the Blue Inc. in Delaware. Steven Russell, president of the firm, could not be reached for comment.
By 7:30 a.m., authorities had the plane hitched to a truck for towing to a turnpike maintenance yard.
Vogt sat in the cockpit to steer in case it became unhitched. He called his father.
"Turn on the news," he said. "You see a plane being towed?"
"Yes," said his father.
"I'm in it."
"You're a star," his mother texted him.
Back in his parents' kitchen, the phone ringing with calls from the media and worried loved ones, Vogt was looking forward to a beer with some friends, to letting what happened settle in.
He said he wouldn't take any time off.
"This will not deter me one bit," Vogt said. "It happens."
Monday, January 25, 2010
Two Britons on Airlines crash plane
A Lebanese soldier carries remains of the Ethiopian Airlines plane on the beach this morning
A woman is comforted by a friend as she collapses in despair at Beirut airport upon news that a relative was aboard the Ethiopian Airlines plane that plunged into the sea
Lebanese rescuers scan the sea as search operations continued off the coast
A Lebanese commando pulls a body from the water into a helicopter above the area where the plane went down
Relatives were ushered to a VIP area of the airport to anxiously wait for news of their loved ones
Dozens of distraught relatives begin to arrive at Beirut airport
A passenger jet takes off while rescue boats can be seen in the background searching for survivors
An ambulance, centre, rushes to Beirut airport amid fears that all 90 people on board the Ethiopian flight could be dead
Two Britons were on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed shortly after take-off from the Lebanese capital Beirut, it has been confirmed.
The Boeing 737 bound for Addis Ababa in Ethiopia fell into the Mediterranean in a ball of fire with 90 people on board.
At least 14 bodies have been recovered, and there has been no news of anyone surviving the crash.
The Foreign Office said one British national and one with dual nationality were on board Flight ET409.
A British RAF helicopter, based in Cyprus, has joined the Lebanese authorities' search-and-rescue operation.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with the families of all those involved in this tragedy."
Passenger list
Ethiopian Airlines said there were 82 passengers and 8 crew on board.
The passenger list included two Britons, 51 Lebanese, 23 Ethiopians, and one person each from Canada, France, Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
The cause of the crash is being investigated, but police have ruled out terrorism.
Lebanon's transport minister Ghazi Aridi said the plane took off at about 0230 local time (0030 GMT), and crashed two miles off the coast.
An Ethiopian Airlines statement said: "A team is already working on gathering all pertinent information.
"An investigative team has already been dispatched to the scene and we will release further information as further updates are received."
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
At least 46 injured after Iran plane catches fire: report
Iranian firefighters work on a burned Russian-made Iranian passenger plane after its crash landing at Mashhad airport, northeastern Iran, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010.
Iranian firefighters work on a burned Russian-made Iranian passenger plane after its crash landing at Mashhad airport, northeastern Iran, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010.
An Iranian passenger plane caught fire on Sunday when it was landing in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, injuring at least 46 people on board, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"The (Russian-built) Tupolev 154 plane belonging to Taban Airline went off the runaway upon landing and about one third of its rear end broke away," said Avad Erfanian, head of disaster management of Khorasan Razavi province of which Mashhad is the capital.
"There were 157 passengers and 13 crew members on board," he said, "the accident caused no death and most of the injured passengers are in good condition."
The wounded have been transferred to three hospitals in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, he added.
Local English-language Press TV said that the plane had departed from Iran's southeastern city of Abandan and its fuselage, one of the wings and the tail section has burned in the fire
A plane carrying pilgrims in Iran has caught fire while landing at Mashhad, in the north-east of the country.
State media said almost 170 people were on board and that at least 46 were injured. There were no reports of fatalities.
The plane, a Russian-built Tupolev 154 owned by Taban Air, suffered serious damage as it landed, losing its undercarriage and a wing.
The rear end of the plane broke up after the passengers were evacuated.
Reza Jafarzadeh, spokesman for Iranian civil aviation, said the plane had left the city of Abadan, in south-west Iran, on Saturday, but bad weather had forced it to land in the central city of Isfahan for the night, according to state television.
After taking off again on Sunday, the captain was forced to make an emergency landing in Mashhad because of a passenger's health problems, he said.
As it landed in fog at Mashhad airport, the tail of the plane hit the ground and the plane skidded off the runway.
Iranian news networks released pictures of the tail of the plane burning, with smoke billowing from the end of the plane.
There have been a number of accidents involving Iranian aviation over the last few years.
Its civil fleet is made up of old planes in poor condition due to their age and lack of maintenance.
Last July a passenger plane burst into flames while landing in Mashhad, killing 17 passengers.
10 days earlier, a Tupolev plane had caught fire mid-air and crashed in northern Iran, killing all 168 people on board.
That incident was the third deadly crash of a Tupolev 154 in Iran since 2002.
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