Miraculously, all 367 passengers and 12 crew escaped and survived the crash on the Airbus. The captain of the Japan Coast Guard aircraft also survived, but 5 others did not. The DHC-8 was on its way to transport supplies to Niigata in response to the recent earthquake. Date: November 1,...
The only previous fatal crash of a 747-400 was a 2000 crash of a Singapore Airlines in Taipei, Taiwan. Other UPS plane crashes Other 747 plane crashes 9 August 2010; de Havilland DHC-3T Otter; near Dillingham, AK: Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was one of five people killed when ...
TOKYO, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) said on Thursday that a recent helicopter crash off northeastern Japan was caused by human error, and flights of helicopters of the same type will be resumed. Three of the four crewmen aboard the helicopter were still ...
听力原文: The Indian government has given its approval to a merger between the country's two state-run airlines. Key government ministers gave their consent to a merger between Air India and Indian Airlines despite opposition from leftist politicians concerned about the welfare of the airlines' emp...
stormed the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93, leading the hijackers to crash the plane over Pennsylvania. Wolfowitz and Cheney provided palpably false versions that touted the military’s readiness to shoot down United 93. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Norad ha...