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Putin tells Netanyahu he rejects Israeli version of Syria plane downing

By AFP

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that he disagreed with the Israeli version of events concerning the downing of a Russian plane over Syria last week, the Kremlin said.

2 pilots killed in Sudan military jet crash: army

By AFP

Khartoum - A Sudanese military jet has crashed near the city of Omdurman, killing the two pilots on board, the army said on Friday, in the latest accident to hit its ageing fleet.

South Sudan plane crash toll rises to 20

By AFP

Juba - A total of 20 people died when a plane crashed in South Sudan with an Anglican bishop and four foreigners among the dead, officials said Monday, a day after the deadly accident.

WWII vintage plane crashes into Swiss mountainside, 20 dead

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Geneve - Twenty people died when a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountain at the weekend, police said Sunday, as an investigation was launched into why the plane plummeted straight down at high speed.

Twenty dead in WWII vintage plane crash in Switzerland

By AFP

Geneva - Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside at the weekend, police said Sunday."The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference....

Fatalities in two light aircraft crashes: Swiss police

By AFP

Geneva - Two light aircraft crashed in separate accidents in Switzerland on Saturday, police said, killing an unknown number of people.

Lack of fuel caused 2016 Brazil football team plane crash

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Apo - The 2016 plane crash that nearly wiped out an entire Brazilian football team was caused by a lack of fuel, Colombia's civil aviation authority said Friday, following an extensive investigation into the disaster.

Lack of fuel caused 2016 Brazil football team plane crash

By AFP

Apo - The 2016 plane crash that wiped out a Brazilian football team was caused by a lack of fuel, Colombia's aviation authority said Friday following an extensive investigation into the disaster.

Cool under pressure: Games debutant, 79, who foiled plane hijack

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Brisbane - Being the oldest Commonwealth Games competitor in history at age 79 would be life-defining for most people, but not Bob Pitcairn: as a commercial airline pilot he foiled a hijacking.

Review: Country star sings on plane for Southwest Airlines passengers Special

By Markos Papadatos

On March 9, country star James Wesley serenaded passengers on Southwest Airlines to a classic rock and roll tune by Chuck Berry.

Investigators search snow for clues to deadly Russian plane crash

By AFP

Moscow - Investigators on Monday begun examining a black box containing flight data about the Russian passenger plane which crashed near Moscow minutes after take-off, killing all 71 people on board.

71 feared dead in Russian passenger plane crash

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Moscow - A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed outside Moscow on Sunday after taking off from the capital's Domodedovo airport, officials and local media said.

Winds seen as factor in Costa Rica plane crash that killed 12

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Islita - Strong winds were seen as a factor in the crash of a small plane in Costa Rica that killed all 10 US passengers on board and two local crew members, according to officials and witnesses.

Winds seen as factor in Costa Rica plane crash that killed 12

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Islita - Strong winds were seen as a factor in the crash of a small plane in Costa Rica that killed all 10 US passengers on board and two local crew members, according to officials and witnesses.

Ten Americans killed when plane crashes and burns in Costa Rica

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San Jos - Ten Americans flying from a vacation hotspot on Costa Rica's tropical Pacific coast died Sunday when the small plane they had just boarded crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off, officials in the country said.

Iraq recovers bodies of plane crew shot down by IS

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Kirkuk - Iraqi forces have found the bodies of two of the crew of a plane shot down by the Islamic State group last year, the air force said on Tuesday.

Last flight home for icon of 'German Autumn' of terror

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Friedrichshafen - Forty years ago next month, German anti-terror commandos stormed a Lufthansa jet in Somalia, shot its Palestinian hijackers and freed 90 hostages, a climax in a bloody era of far-left militancy.

Syrian rebels say they downed regime plane, captured pilot

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Birut - A Syrian rebel group said it shot down a government warplane on Tuesday and captured its pilot alive near a ceasefire zone in the war-ravaged country's south.

US fighter pilot ejects on emergency landing at Bahrain

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Dibai - A US military aircraft made an emergency landing at Bahrain International Airport on Saturday and its pilot ejected on the runway after an engine malfunction, a navy spokesman said.

France jails Britons over migrants flown to UK

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Boulogne-sur-mer - A French court on Friday jailed two Britons for over two years for having smuggled migrants to England in a light aircraft in what prosecutors said was a first.

In first, migrants try to fly from France to UK on light aircraft

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Lille - Four Albanian migrants tried to fly from France to Britain in a light aircraft, in what is believed to be a first, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Desperate wait as bodies retrieved from Myanmar plane wreck

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Kanchanaburi - Hundreds of people gathered on a beach in southern Myanmar on Thursday desperately waiting for news of their loved ones as the first bodies arrived from the wreck of a military plane that crashed with more than 120 people on board.

Myanmar joins grim list of global military air disasters

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Yangon - Myanmar's navy on Thursday found bodies and plane debris in the Andaman Sea from an aircraft that was carrying more than 120 passengers, the latest in a grim history of military aviation disasters around the globe.

Myanmar's military finds crashed plane, bodies: spokesman

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Yangon - Myanmar's military said Thursday it has found the wreckage of a plane in the Andaman Sea that went missing with around 120 people on board, along with several bodies."We have found the plane and some dead bodies this morning about 8.

EgyptAir crash an accident, say French investigators

By AFP

Paris - No traces of explosives were found on the remains of French victims from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May 2016, a source close to the French investigation told AFP on Friday.

Plane crash-lands in S.Sudan with 45 onboard: officials

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Juba - A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau on Monday, leaving at least 14 people injured, government and airport officials said.It was unclear however if the rest of the those on board were alive or dead.

Netherlands bars landing for Turkey FM's plane

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Den Haag - The Dutch government on Saturday refused permission for Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's plane to travel to the Netherlands for a planned campaign rally in the city of Rotterdam."The Turkish authorities have publicly threatened sanctions.

Five die as plane crashes into Melbourne shopping centre

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Melbourne - A light aircraft smashed into shops and exploded into a "massive fireball" killing all five on board, including four American passengers reportedly golfers on the trip of a lifetime, officials in Australia said Tuesday.