A helicopter crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in northeastern Australia on Monday, police said, igniting a blaze atop the building and forcing a mass evacuation. Mangled pieces of the helicopter’s propeller landed in the hotel’s pool, said an emergency services official, adding that one man was treated at the scene with life-threatening […]
A regional turboprop plane fell into what aviation experts called a flat spin before crashing in a residential neighborhood near Sao Paulo in Brazil on Friday, killing all 61 people on board. Regional carrier Voepass said the plane, bound for Sao Paulo’s international airport, took off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, and crashed […]
Voepass said it was cooperating with authorities to “determine the causes of the accident,” while giving full assistance to families of the victims on flight 2283. The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, took off “without any flight restrictions, with all its systems operational,” the company said. Brazil’s CENIPA aviation accident agency has launched an investigation. ATR, […]
A bus crashed through a highway bridge near Ankara early Friday, killing nine people and injuring 26, the governor of Turkey’s capital region said. The accident occurred at 5:00 am (0200 GMT), the TRT public television channel said. It was travelling from Eskisehir, a city west of Ankara. Ankara region governor Vasip Sahin said preliminary […]
The men’s 5000m race at the Paris Olympics 2024 almost resulted in a major collision as a viral video showed a cameraman getting in the way of the runners. During the second heat, the runners were heading into the final four laps when the cameraman walked across the track to the edge. The viral video […]
A helicopter crashed in central Nepal on Wednesday, killing all five people aboard including the pilot and four Chinese tourists. Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the decades. The Air Dynasty chopper was heading to Syabrubesi, […]
A U.S. military helicopter crash landed in a rice paddy in Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Saturday, national broadcaster NHK reported. No one was injured in the crash, NHK said, citing the local fire department. In another development, the Pentagon said that the United States will bolster its military presence in the Middle East, […]
QUETTA: In a span of two hours, two passenger buses met with accidents on the highway heading towards Punjab, resulting in significant injuries, ARY News reported on Friday. The first incident occurred when a passenger bus traveling from Quetta to Lahore overturned in the Muslim Bagh area of Qila Saifullah. The District Administration of Qila […]