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Plane crash in northern Nepal kills 21 people
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- May 14, 2012
A plane carrying 21 people has crashed while trying to land at an airport in the north of Nepal, leaving 15 dead.
Police say that six survivors are being treated at a hospital in the city of Pokhara. Many of the dead and injured are Indian nationa...
Indonesia searchers find missing Russia jet wreckage
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- May 10, 2012
Indonesian officials say a helicopter has spotted what is thought to be wreckage of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that disappeared on Wednesday.
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 vanished from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Jakarta for a...
No Dutch charges over 2009 Turkish Airlines crash
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- April 26, 2012
Dutch prosecutors have decided not to charge Turkish Airlines and Boeing over a 2009 crash in which nine people died.
The Boeing 737-800 jet, carrying 135 passengers and crew, came down in a field near Schiphol airport in an accident blamed on a f...
Delta Airlines plane makes emergency landing after bird strike
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- April 21, 2012
A Delta Airlines plane has made an emergency landing at New York's John F Kennedy airport after an apparent bird strike.
Flight 1063, which was bound for Los Angeles with 172 passengers and seven crew onboard, contacted air traffic control shortly...
Devastation and chaos after Pakistani plane crash
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- April 20, 2012
Asif Farooqi of the BBC's Urdu service describes scenes of devastation and chaos at the site where a Bhoja Air plane crashed with up to 127 people on board just outside Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
The plane came down over the small village of H...
Virgin plane in Gatwick Airport emergency landing
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- April 17, 2012
Flights in and out of Gatwick Airport were suspended after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing when smoke was reported in the cabin.
Virgin flight VS27 had left the West Sussex airport at 11:48 BST and was bound for Orlando in the US w...
Indian helicopter makes emergency landing on rooftop
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- April 12, 2012
A helicopter has made an emergency landing on the roof of an apartment building in a busy residential area of the Indian city of Bangalore.
Reports say the helicopter was on a routine training flight when its engine failed, forcing the aircraft do...
Man chased helicopter at Norwich airport to warn of fire
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- April 12, 2012
A helicopter which caught fire was stopped from taking off from Norwich airport by a member of ground staff who ran after it to alert the crew.
The engineer chased after the Dauphin II helicopter on the runway in April last year to get the pilot's...
US Navy F-18 crashes in residential Virginia
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- April 7, 2012
A US Navy F-18 jet has crashed shortly after take off in a residential area near Virginia Beach, Virginia.
A navy spokesman told the BBC that the plane went down just before 12:08 (16:08 GMT) and two crew members ejected safely.
The plane hit an a...
Texas tornadoes: Airport hit as Dallas counts cost
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- April 6, 2012
US officials in Texas are assessing the damage after as many as a dozen tornadoes swept through densely populated areas of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Thousands of passengers are stranded at the the city's airport, with some 424 flights cancelled.
Several ...
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