Russian plane crash-lands in UkraineMOSCOW - A plane carrying the chief of staff of the Russian navy and other officers caught fire after crash-landing at an airfield in Crimea, Interfax news agency said Monday. It was the fourth serious aviation incident involving Russian planes in 36 hours. No fatalities were immediately reported and the Russian navy chief of staff, Admiral Vladimir Masorinym, was unhurt but several officers in his delegation received burns of varying degrees in the accident, Interfax said quoting a source with the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Air Madagascar jetÂ’s engine fails, but lands safely
ANTANANARIVO - A long-haul Air Madagascar flight carrying about 200 people had to make an emergency landing after its right engine failed moments after taking off, the airline said on Monday. No one was hurt in the incident involving a Boeing 767-300 jet, which was bound from the capital Antananarivo to Paris late on Saturday night, the company said.
“Three minutes after takeoff of flight MD050 on Saturday 8th July, the technical team noticed a problem affecting the right engine of the aircraft,” the airline said in a statement. It adding that the pilot succeeded in turning the plane around and flying it safely back to Antananarivo on the remaining engine.
State-owned Air Madagascar said the pilot had to jettison some of the planeÂ’s fuel so as not to exceed the safe weight limit to fly on one engine. All 181 passengers and 12 crew were safe, it said.
Brakes Eyed in Deadly Russia Plane Crash
IRKUTSK, Russia (AP) - Aviation officials struggled Monday to explain Russia's second deadly commercial airline crash in nearly as many months, as relatives of the more than 120 people killed desperately sought information on the fate of their loved ones. The Airbus A310 operated by Russian airline S7 crashed Sunday morning in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, 2,600 miles east of Moscow. It was attempting to land when it veered off a wet runway, slammed into adjacent garages, then burst into flames.As of Monday evening, 127 of the 203 passengers and crew on board were confirmed dead and were awaiting identification, said Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin. Seventy-five people were believed to have survived and 53 of them remained hospitalized Monday, authorities said. A preliminary investigation indicated the plane's braking system failed, Russian news agencies reported, citing unnamed sources. Levitin said the two flight recorders were being analyzed.
Death amid the mango trees as Pakistan plane crashes
MULTAN, Pakistan - Low-flying planes are a regular sight above the mango orchards here -- but residents knew something was badly wrong when the green and white turboprop came veering through the sky. Seconds later the Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 ploughed into a cornfield near the central city of Multan at lunchtime on Monday, leaving a scorched mass of tangled metal and 45 corpses with bubbled, charred skin.
“I saw the plane coming down fast and then it hit an electricity pole and crashed,” labourer Amir Haider, 35, told AFP at the scene of the crash in the city’s congested suburb of Suraj Miani.