Plane crash News

Kazan - Russian detectives on Monday searched through burnt pieces of a jetliner to determine the cause of a crash which left 50 passengers dead.

Dozens of people were killed, with reports varying as to how many, when a Laos Airlines plane crashed into the Mekong River today. There were reportedly 44 passengers aboard, as well as five crew members. One passenger was reportedly a Canadian.

South Bend - Investigators are working to figure out what caused a private jet to slam into three homes in northern Indiana Sunday, killing two people on board, including legendary University of Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis.

Moscow - The terrifying moment when a Tu-204 jet crashed onto a highway in Moscow, has been caught on film by a vehicle with a camera mounted on its dashboard, as it drove adjacent to the airport.

A passenger plane has overshot the runaway at Moscow's Vnukovo airport crashing into a road. The plane is reported to have been carrying eight passengers and four crew. Four people were reported to have been killed.

A plane was forced to crash land on a road in Burma on Tuesday, killing three and injuring eleven others. Officials suspect the weather may have been a cause.

Monterrey - Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera died early Sunday morning when her chartered private jet crashed over the mountains of Northern Mexico on its way to Mexico City.

Pretoria - A military aircraft crashed in severe weather in the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa, after taking off from Pretoria's Waterkloof Air Force Base, en route to Mthatha in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday morning.

Chicago - A local Chicago television station is poking fun at itself after reporting a plane crash and showing aerial footage of a plane that was part of a "Chicago Fire" episode sitting near a major Chicago thoroughfare.

Rio De Janeiro - A security camera captured the moment a small plane that touched down at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport, ran down an embankment, crashed into a boundary fence and stopped a few meters away from a main highway, after it overshot the runway.