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‘Scores Dead’ in South Sudan Plane Crash

‘Scores Dead’ in South Sudan Plane Crash

A plane has crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in South Sudan, killing more than 40 people, officials said. Two passengers reportedly survived. The tail fin of the plane and other parts were scattered along the banks of the White Nile river near the airport in Juba, the capital, on Wednesday. Witnesses told […]

Russian Plane Was Destroyed Mid-Air, Search Operation Nears End

Russian Plane Was Destroyed Mid-Air, Search Operation Nears End

A Russian aviation official said that the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai desert on Saturday was destroyed in mid-air, as a deadline for the search operations at the site of the fatal crash nears expiry, a Russian minister said. Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said Monday that search operations will conclude at 10:00 […]

Plane debris found on Reunion is from missing MH370, Najib Rozak confirms

Plane debris found on Reunion is from missing MH370, Najib Rozak confirms

Part of the aircraft wing found on Reunion Island is from the missing MH370 plane, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has confirmed. Mr Najib said international experts examining the debris in France had “conclusively confirmed” it was from the aircraft. The Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people veered off course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing […]

Kenya Airways is in dire financial straits, urgent govt bailout needed

Kenya Airways is in dire financial straits, urgent govt bailout needed

Kenya Airways (KQ) is in dire financial straits having posted a record Sh25.7 billion ($251 million) loss after tax for the year ending March 2015. One can almost feel the pain of the chief executive Mbuvi Ngunze as he tries to figure out how to bring the airline back to profitability. The financial woes at […]

Malaysia urges debris vigilance for MH370 after wing part found

Malaysia urges debris vigilance for MH370 after wing part found

Malaysia is asking other Indian Ocean islands near French-owned Reunion to be on the lookout for more possible debris after a wing part suspected of being from missing flight MH370 came ashore. The Malaysia Airlines plane, carrying 239 people, vanished in March 2014. The Boeing-777 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The wing part […]

Malaysian govt pulls Phoenix from MH370 search.

Malaysian govt pulls Phoenix from MH370 search.

On 20 June 2015, on behalf of the government of Malaysia, DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) directed Phoenix International (USA) to end its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) in the Southern Indian Ocean. Since 5 October 2014, Phoenix and teammates from Hydrospheric Solutions, Inc. (HSI) and GO Marine had been working round […]

Malaysia pushes for criminal tribunal for MH17 disaster

Malaysia pushes for criminal tribunal for MH17 disaster

Malaysia has said that it wants to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of having shot down flight MH17. The Malaysia Airlines passenger plane crashed in July 2014, with the loss of all 298 people on board. It had been flying over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine when it […]

Air Madagascar Grounds Flights Due to Strike

Air Madagascar Grounds Flights Due to Strike

Air Madagascar cancelled all of its flights on Thursday due to an employee strike that has grounded most of the state-owned carrier’s fleet since Monday. “Because of the social movements, Air Madagascar informs its passengers, its partners and the public that the company is forced to cancel all its flights,” an airline statement said. Strike […]

Algeria Adopts Bill On Civil Aviation

Algeria Adopts Bill On Civil Aviation

The Council of the Nation (Upper House) adopted on Tuesday unanimously the bill on civil aviation, during a plenary session chaired by Speaker Abdelkader Bensalah, in the presence of the Minister of Transport, Boudjemaa Talai. This new bill, which amends and supplements that of 1998, includes measures likely to improve security, aviation safety and the […]

Four held over moscow plane crash

Four held over moscow plane crash

A snowplow driver who’s been blamed by Russian authorities for a plane crash that killed the chief executive of the oil company Total has been sent to pretrial detention, his lawyer said Thursday. Snowplow driver Vladimir Martynenko has denied claims by Russian officials that he was drunk at the time of the crash Monday at […]

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