This was not the first fatal plane crash in Alaska involving Senator Stevens. In December 1978, the Senator was one of two survivors of a fatal crash of a Learjet in Anchorage, Alaska. Both pilots and three other passengers, including the Senator's first wife, were killed in the crash. ...
A 737 MAX 8 plane of Ethiopian Airlines crashed Sunday morning, killing all 157 passengers and crew members on board. The plane crash was the second fatal incident involving the same model in five months. Another Boeing 737 MAX 8, flown by Indonesia's Lion Air, crashed soon after takeoff f...
Passenger air travel nearly went the entire year without a fatal accident. The only fatal accident on a major jet happened in January 2023 when 72 people died on board a Yeti Airlines flight in Nepal. The IATA's report says that crash was due to the feathering of both propellers and subse...
Nolen, like executives of the airline industry, point out that there has not been a fatal crash involving a U.S. airline plane since 2009, an unprecedented stretch. Still, he said at the hearing and in an internal memo, he was forming a "safety review team" to examine the aviation syst...
Byline: Richard BruinsmaA PHOTO taken earlier this month of the Cessna 206 that was destroyed in Saturday's fatal crash has been passed on to investigators.The photo taken by local aircraft historian Bert van Drunick showed a discoloured body panel, midway along the body, near where the ...
Controller’s Parents Died in Plane Crash : Tragedy: Father and mother of woman involved in fatal LAX crash disappeared during a flight nearly 14 years ago. Friends say recent disaster ‘dredges up an old pain.’ This story was reported by Times staff writers Glenn F. Bunting, Rich Connell...
Space has become so tight that passengers cannot protect themselves in the event of a crash. A report on a long distance flight from the doctors of Vienna stated that only 10% in economy class could adopt the recommended brace position on the plane’s safety tips in case of emergency, and...
As villain moves forward for the fatal blow, the hero rams his sword into aforesaid place. This, of course, terminates the fight. And two favourite clichés for the new category "horror movies": -Whenever wife wakes up in strange house at night to the sound of something that frightens her...
Hazards of Icing Adhesion of ice and wet-snow on aircraft surfaces causes numerous serious aviation accidents and has become a fatal threat to flight safety. In November 2004, a flight (China Eastern Airlines MU5210) from Baotou to Shanghai crashed due to undesired ice accumulation on the ...