Five people were killed Wednesday night when a small jet crashed at a Georgia airport, according to the Savannah Morning News. http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2013-02-21/thomson-jet-crash-kills-5-2-survivors-hospitalized#.USeccPJ9tvQ The plane, which had seven people on board, landed at Thomson-Duffie County Airport in Thomson, Ga., about 8…
Navy Jet Hits Virginia Apartments, With Seven Hurt And Three Still Missing
A Navy fighter jet crashed into a Virginia Beach, Va., apartment complex Friday, injuring at least seven people and leaving three others still unaccounted for, according to Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/07/us-usa-crash-navy-idUSBRE8350EX20120407 The F/A-18D jet “suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction” while conducting a…
Pakistan Jet Crash Kills All 152 Aboard The Flight
All 152 people aboard a Pakistani jet were killed Wednesday when the plane crashed into a ridge, making it the worst commercial aircraft diaster in the nation’s history, The Los Angeles Times reported. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-0728-pakistan-crash-20100728,0,7159422.story Two Americans were among the victims of…
Brazil Prosecutors want charges against pilots restored
Date: 2/6/2009 SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian prosecutor wants negligence charges reinstated against two New York pilots whose small jet was involved in one of Brazil’s worst air disasters. Pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino were accused of contributing…
Trial over Concorde crash set for February 2010
Date: 1/12/2009 PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say the manslaughter trial of Continental Airlines and five people over the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people will begin outside Paris next year. They said Monday the trial…
Mexico rules out bomb, failed engine in jet crash
Date: 11/7/2008 By E. EDUARDO CASTILLOAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexican experts say they have ruled out a bomb or engine failure as the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior secretary. The probe into the…
Black boxes from Mexican plane crash sent to US
Date: 11/7/2008 By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Two flight recorders from a plane crash that killed Mexico’s No. 2 government official were sent to the U.S. for examination, officials said Thursday, amid widespread speculation — but…