Plane crashes and incidents
An Australian man was charged in Singapore on Saturday for making a bomb threat on board a Perth-bound plane that forced the aircraft to turn back under fighter jet escort.
Hawkins Kevin Francis, 30, faces up to 10 years in jail or a fine not exceeding Sg$500,000 ($356,000) or both on conviction.
Flight TR16 operated by Singapore budget carrier Scoot was forced to turn back to the city-state an hour into the journey on Thursday after the threat was made. — AFP
Airport officials say a flight from Panama to the United States made a u-turn Friday after the discovery of a suspicious package in the toilet that turned out to be... an adult diaper.
Panama's civil aviation authority at first announced the Copa flight between Panama City and Tampa, Florida, had to turn around due to a presumed "bomb threat."
Back on the tarmac, the plane was emptied of passengers and searched by a police explosives unit. — AFP
Officials say a US man who groped a sleeping passenger on a plane was jailed Thursday for nearly two years.
Mohammad Jawad Ansari, 50, put his hand on the inner thigh of a woman as she slept in the middle seat of a flight from Cleveland to Los Angeles in February 2020.
The victim, who was wearing a dress, woke up and pushed Ansari's hand away before leaving her seat and telling cabin crew about the assault. — AFP
Officials say 14 people were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in the Brazilian Amazon while trying to land in stormy weather in the tourist town of Barcelos, leaving no survivors.
The small plane's pilot was approaching the remote town in heavy rain, with low visibility, and appeared to inadvertently start landing halfway down the runway, Amazonas state security secretary Vinicius Almeida tells a news conference.
The plane ran out of landing strip and crashed, killing all 12 passengers and two crew, he says. — AFP
Malaysian air accident investigators are analyzing on Friday the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of a light plane that crashed into a road near the capital, killing all eight people on board and two on the ground.
The Beechcraft Model 390 aircraft exploded into a fireball on impact when it crashed Thursday in Selangor state west of the capital Kuala Lumpur, with thick black smoke seen rising from the site, video clips from the scene showed.
All eight people on board -- six passengers and two flight crew -- as well as two motorists on the four-lane road were killed, police say. — AFP
A light plane crashed into a street in Malaysia's central Selangor state on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief says.
"For now, I can say at least 10 people were killed in the plane crash. Two passing motorists -- one in a car and one on a motorcycle -- also perished together with the eight on board the plane," Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim tells AFP.
Malaysia's civil aviation authority said in a statement that six passengers and two flight crew were on board the aircraft when it crashed, though it did not confirm any casualties.
The Regional Public Information Office of Police Regional Office Cordillera announces that the passengers of the Cessna plane that crashed while on a training flight between the municipalities of Luna and Pudtol were found dead.
"The two passengers on board the Missing RP-C8598 CESSNA 152 Plane were identified as Capt. Edzel John Lumbao Tabuzo from San Juan City and student pilot Anshum Rajkumar Konde, an Indian national. They were unfortunately found dead by operatives at the crash site," the RPIO Police Regional Office Cordillera says on Facebook.
"The cadavers of the victims were brought to Amma Jadsac District Hospital, Poblacion, Pudtol, Apayao, while the black box of the CESSNA plane was turned over to the proper authorities, who are investigating to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident," it adds.
South Korean police say a man who opened an emergency exit on an Asiana Airlines flight in mid-air felt "suffocated" and wanted to get off quickly.
The plane was carrying nearly 200 passengers as it approached the runway on Friday at Daegu International Airport, about 240 kilometers (149 miles) southeast of Seoul, on a domestic flight.
When the plane was around 200 meters (650 feet) above ground, the man who police said was in his 30s without providing further details, opened the exit door. — AFP
Members of the team set to retrieve the remains of Cessna plane crash victims in Isabela arrive at the site.
Citing Isabela's Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, GMA News reported that the retrieval team had difficulty reaching the crash site due to rains and slippery terrain.
This development comes two days after the wreckage was located and no survivors were reported.
Authorities did not find any survivors from the Cessna plane that went missing from Isabela in late January.
News5 reports that it was estimated that it will take three days to bring down all the bodies, if weather permits.
NO SURVIVOR
— News5 (@News5PH) March 9, 2023
Walang nakaligtas na sakay sa nawawalang Cessna plane sa Isabela.
Nakita na ang crash site bandang 11-11:30 a.m. kanina, March 9.
Sa kanilang pagtataya, aabutin ng tatlong araw bago maibaba ang lahat ng bangkay kung magiging maayos ang panahon. #News pic.twitter.com/ZbSejmjtxq
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office says on Thursday that the missing Cessna aircraft in Isabela has been found.
Another Cessna plane has gone missing, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) reports.
The aircraft with callsign RP-C2080 departed from Bicol International Airport at 6:43 a.m. on February 18, and was supposed to arrive in Manila at 7:53 a.m. on the same day.
The CAAP says aviation authorities “lost communication” with the aircraft.
Police say two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of the capital New Delhi.
"We have located the wreckage of one of the planes and found an injured pilot in the Pahadgarh forests," officer Dharmender Gaur tells AFP. "The other plane has likely fallen further away from the site and we have sent teams to locate it."
Yeti Airlines and a local official say an aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on Sunday.
"There are 68 passengers on board and four crew members... Rescue is underway, we don't know right now if there are survivors," the airline's spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula tells AFP.
He says the plane crashed between the old and new Pokhara airports in central Nepal.
India's aviation regulator says Saturday it was probing an engine fire that broke out on a passenger jet just as it was about to take off from Delhi airport.
The IndiGo airlines flight was carrying 184 people to tech hub Bangaluru and had just begun its thrust on the runway when the fire was spotted, forcing its pilot to return to the bay and evacuate the cabin.
No injuries were reported and officials said the plane was emptied safely.
"The priority is to carry out a detailed investigation of the incident and ascertain the reasons for the fire in the engine," Arun Kumar, chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation tells reporters. — AFP
Russian news agencies say at least 13 people, including three children, were killed after a military plane crashed into a residential area of Yeysk in southwest Russia Tuesday as the search for survivors ended.
"Rescuers have finished excavating the rubble (...) In total, 13 people died, including three children, while 19 people were injured," according to the ministry of emergency situations, quoted by Russian agencies following Monday's crash. — AFP
Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities say as they begin identifying the victims.
"All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn tells AFP.
Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning and headed for Jomsom, a popular trekking destination.
A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation.
The Twin Otter aircraft operated by Tara Air took off from the western town of Pokhara bound for Jomsom at 9:55 am (0410 GMT) but air traffic control lost contact after 15 minutes.
"We are trying to locate the possible area where the aircraft might be," Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesman for Tara Air, told AFP.
"Search and rescue teams from both the police and the army are heading towards that direction." — AFP
An airline official says a jetliner attempting to land in Mexico City aborted its approach at the last second to avoid hitting a plane taxiing on the runway.
Video circulating on social media showed the near-miss involving two Airbus jets belonging to low-cost Mexican carrier Volaris Saturday night at Benito Juarez Airport, the busiest in Latin America.
The airline did not disclose the flight numbers, exact model of aircraft or how many passengers were aboard. — AFP
At least five people died in a small commercial plane crash in Haiti on Wednesday, according to police, with the pilot the only person on board to survive.
The aircraft was flying from the capital of Port-au-Prince to the southern town of Jacmel, Pierre Belamy Samedi, police chief in the suburb Carrefour where the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, told AFP.
"I saw five unmoving bodies and at least three injured people who were not in the plane," he said, adding that the pilot — who is not Haitian — was the only person on board who survived the crash. — AFP
A cargo airplane broke up during an emergency landing in Costa Rica on Thursday, in an accident that provoked the temporary closure of the international airport in San Jose.
Smoke was billowing from the bright yellow plane of German logistics giant DHL as it ground to a halt, having slid off the runway when it spun and broke up around the rear wheels.
Two crew members aboard were "in a good condition," said the chief of Costa Rica's firefighters, Hector Chaves. — AFP
Two South Korean air force planes collided in mid-air and crashed Friday, killing three pilots and leaving one more missing, Seoul's military says.
The KT-1 trainer jets crashed near Sacheon town, about 300 kilometres south of the capital Seoul, according to military authorities.
"Two KT-1 trainer jets at the Sacheon Air Base collided in mid-air while training and crashed," the defence ministry says in a statement. — AFP
Chinese recovery teams pick through the debris of a crashed China Eastern jet after it inexplicably plummeted from the sky into a mountainside with 132 people on board.
Hopes of finding any survivors had all but vanished nearly a day after the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet nosedived into the mountain -- likely making it China's deadliest air crash in nearly three decades.
Questions mounted over the cause of the crash, which saw the stricken jet drop 20,000 feet (6096 metres) in just over a minute before ploughing into rugged terrain in southern China on Monday afternoon. — AFP
A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China and caused a mountain fire with casualties unknown, state broadcaster CCTV reports Monday.
The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and "caused a mountain fire", CCTV says, citing the provincial emergency management bureau.
The report adds that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene.
CCTV says a "China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 133 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi, and caused a mountain fire." — AFP
An Iranian military jet fighter crashed Monday in a residential area of the northwestern city of Tabriz killing three people, including two crew members, state television reports.
The head of the local Red Crescent said the jet smashed into a school, and that one of the dead was a resident of the neighbourhood. An investigation is underway, the state broadcaster says. — AFP
The Philippine military says it is coordinating with its Australian counterparts after a MH60R Seahawk helicopter crashed in the Philippine Sea Wednesday night.
All three crew members were safely recovered by the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Brisbane, the Armed Forces of the Philippines says.
"Per report from the Royal Australian Navy, the ships were conducting 'a number of navy-to-navy engagements with partner nations' in Southeast and Northeast Asia," the military says.
#AFPStatement: On Australian MH60R Seahawk Helicopter Crash
— Armed Forces of the Philippines (@TeamAFP) October 14, 2021
The AFP was informed of the unfortunate crash involving an Australian MH60R Seahawk Helicopter Wednesday night while transiting East of Luzon.
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Fifteen people were killed after an L-410 plane carrying parachutists crashed in Russia's central republic of Tatarstan on Sunday, the emergencies ministry says.
"Seven people were rescued, 15 people were taken out without signs of life," the ministry says on its Telegram channel. — AFP
Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying 28 people in Russia's Far East, news agencies cited emergency services as saying on Tuesday.
The An-26 was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula when it did not make a scheduled call-in, the Interfax, RIA Novosti and TASS agencies quoted local officials as saying.
The report said the 28 on board included six crew members and that there were one or two children among the passengers. — AFP
The number of fatalities in the military C-130 plane crash in Sulu on Sunday had reached 45 persons as of Sunday night, with 53 others injured and five unaccounted for, a military official said in Zamboanga City.
Among those killed were 42 military personnel and 3 civilians while 49 soldiers and 4 civilians were injured as of 8:40p.m on Sunday, said Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr.
He said the search and retrieval team also confirmed that five soldiers remained unaccounted for and are the subject of the search operations at the crash site and in nearby areas.
Vinluan said the civilian fatalities and those injured were residents of Sitio Amman, Bangkal village in Patikul town where the C-130 plane transporting soldiers crashed. — The STAR/Roel Pareño
At least 29 people were killed and 50 injured Sunday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country's south, officials said.
Another 17 on board the C-130 Hercules transport plane when it crashed while trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province are still missing, Major General William Gonzales says in a statement.
"This is a sad day but we have to remain hopeful," he says. — AFP
The Philippine National Police is coordinating with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to extend assistance in the search and rescue operations for the C-130 cargo plane that crashed in Sulu.
PNP chief PGen. Guillermo Eleazar says he has directed the police regional director to check if there are civilian casualties or affected local residents.
"We are saddened by this unfortunate incident and we offer our deepest condolences to the family of our deceased soldiers," Eleazar says in a statement.
At least 17 were reported dead following the crash of a Philippine Air Force C-130 plane in Patikul, Sulu, Defense Secretary Lorenzana says.
So far, 40 wounded and injured passengers have been rescued.
According to Lorenzana, the plane was carrying 92 personnel including three pilots and five crew.
A military plane carrying at least 85 people crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the armed forces chief says.
So far 15 people have been rescued from the burning wreckage of the C-130, which crashed as it tried to land on Jolo island in Sulu province, General Cirilito Sobejana tells AFP.
"Responders are at the site now, we are praying we can save more lives," Sobejana says. — AFP
Indonesian investigators say they were hopeful of retrieving a crashed passenger jet's second black box, as they seek to explain why the plane with 62 people aboard slammed into the sea minutes after takeoff.
Divers just off the coast of the capital Jakarta hauled the jet's flight data recorder to the surface Tuesday, with the hunt now focused on finding its cockpit voice recorder on the wreckage-littered seabed.
The devices could supply critical clues as to why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea Saturday. — AFP
Authorities say that they had pinpointed the location of its black boxes -- cockpit voice and flight data recorders -- that could be key to explaining why the plane slammed into the Java Sea off the sprawling city's coast.
They have yet to say why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 went into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport on Saturday afternoon. — AFP
Indonesian rescuers say they had detected a signal from a Boeing passenger plane that crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff with 62 people on board.
A military vessel "has found the signal from (Sriwijaya Air) SJ182" and divers had recovered parts of the plane from around 23 metres (75 feet) below the water's surface, the transport ministry says in a statement, citing Indonesia's military chief Hadi Tjahjanto.
The ministry did not specify if the signal was detected from the downed plane's black box. — AFP
Indonesian investigators say they found body parts off the coast of the capital Jakarta where a budget airline plane with 62 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff.
"As of this morning, we've received two (body) bags, one with passenger belongings and the other with body parts," Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus tells Metro TV. — AFP
Officials say at least 17 people were killed Friday when a passenger jet was ripped in two after it overshot and skidded off the runway upon landing in southern India.
More than 100 others were injured, 15 of them seriously, after the Air India Express Boeing 737 from Dubai -- a coronavirus evacuation flight -- plunged off the runway down an embankment in heavy rain in Kozhikode.
Officials say that 191 passengers and crew were on board the plane that plummeted 10 metres (35 feet) off the so-called tabletop runway -- which can be tricky to land on -- in Kerala state. — AFP
Four Philippine Air Force personnel died when their helicopter crashed shortly after take off in Cauayan City, Isabela Thursday night, the Armed Forces of the Philippines confirms.
AFP spokesperson Major General Edgard Arevalo says five personnel were conducting proficiency training for night flying when the crash happened.
"The two pilots, the other officer, and one of the two aircrew perished. The other airman survived the crash and is now undergoing treatment," Arevalo says.
According to an initial report released, a plane crash which killed 97 people in Pakistan last month was because of human error by the pilots, who were discussing the coronavirus crisis during the landing,
The Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed into a crowded residential area on May 22 after both engines failed as it approached Karachi airport, killing all but two people on board.
"The pilot, as well as the (air traffic) controller, didn't follow the standard rules," says Ghulam Sarwar Khan, the country's aviation minister, announcing the findings in parliament. — AFP
According to the health ministry toll, 97 dead and 2 survived from Pakistan plane crash.
An aircraft caught on fire at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport late Sunday. The plane is reportedly an ambulance aircraft carrying medical supplies.
According to a source, LionAir RPC5880 had eight people on board: Six Filipino crew members and two passengers. The passengers were a Canadian and an American.
The aircraft—according to its registration number, an IAI 1124A Westwind II—was headed to Tokyo International Airport.
According to the LionAir website, its Westwind II can accomodate seven passengers in executive seats. It can also be configured as an air ambulance, with space for a patient, two or three members of a medical team, and one or two relatives.
A plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province Monday, officials say, but it was not immediately clear how many people were on board, or if it was a passenger or military jet.
"At around 1:10 pm (0840 GMT) a plane crashed in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province. The plane is on fire and the villagers are trying to put it out. We still don't know if it is a military or commercial plane," Aref Noori, Ghazni's governor's spokesman, tells AFP.
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A news organization reports that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the truth be told after learning that a Ukrainian passenger jet had been mistakenly shot down, Fars news agency reported Saturday.
Fars news agency says it had learned that "as soon as the supreme leader was informed of the catastrophic mistake" on Friday, he ordered that the outcome of investigations "be made known to the people explicitly and honestly". — AFP
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says closure and accountability were needed after Iran said it had unintentionally shot down a Ukranian plane, killing 176 people.
He also demands "transparency, and justice for the families and loved ones of the victims," of whom many were Canadian dual nationals.
"This is a national tragedy, and all Canadians are mourning together," Trudeau's office says in a statement. — AFP
The chairman of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says Iran, which admitted on Saturday that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing 176 people, must "learn lessons" from the disaster.
"If decryption of the black boxes and the work of the investigation do not prove that the Iranian army did this intentionally, and there are no logical reasons for this, the incident must be closed."
"Hoping that lessons will be learned and action taken by all parties," says Konstantin Kosachev, quoted by the Interfax news agency. — AFP
Iran President Hassan Rouhani says downing of Ukraine plane "a great tragedy & unforgivable mistake." — AFP
Iranian foreign minister apologizes for plane "disaster", cites "US adventurism".
Iran's armed forces, meanwhile, says they unintentionally shot down the Ukrainian airliner that crashed this week blaming "human error".
The plane, which crashed on Wednesday killing all 176 people on board, was mistaken for a "hostile plane" and was hit while enemy threats were at the highest level, according to a press statement published by the official IRNA news agency. — AFP
Iran says it unintentionally shot down Ukrainian plane due to "human error," according to a statement.
Iranian armed forces say it mistook Ukrainian jet for hostile plane. — AFP
Iran's civil aviation chief Ali Abedzadeh says he was "certain" a Ukrainian airliner which crashed outside Tehran this week was not hit by a missile.
"One thing is for certain, this airplane was not hit by a missile," Abedzadeh tells a news conference in Tehran after Britain and Canada both said intelligence sources suggested a catastrophic error by Iranian air defence batteries had downed the aircraft. — AFP
Iranian authorities say a Ukrainian airliner, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran with the loss of all 176 people on board, had turned back after experiencing a problem.
"The plane, which was initially headed west to leave the airport zone, turned right following a problem and was headed back to the airport at the moment of the crash," the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation says on its website.
"The plane disappeared from radar screens the moment it reached 8,000 feet (2,400 metres). The pilot sent no radio message about the unusual circumstances.
"According to eyewitnesses, a fire was seen on board the plane which grew in intensity," the organization adds, reporting the first findings of its investigation into Wednesday's crash. — AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says all passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday were killed.
"According to preliminary data, all passengers and crew members are dead," he wrote on Facebook of the Ukraine International Airlines plane, which was bound for Kiev. — AFP
All 170 people on board a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed Wednesday after taking off from Tehran were killed, Iran's Red Crescent says.
"Obviously it is impossible that passengers" on flight PS-752 "are alive," the head of Red Crescent tells semi-official news agency ISNA, adding that 170 passengers and crew had boarded the plane. — AFP
A state news agency says a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Boeing 737 had left Tehran's international airport bound for Kiev, according to semi-official Iranian agency Isna, adding that 10 ambulances were sent to the crash site. — AFP
State media reports at least 15 people died and dozens were injured on Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan's largest city and slammed into a house.
The Fokker 100 Bek Air plane disappeared from the radar minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital Nur-Sultan with 95 passengers and five crew members, the airport authority says in a statement.
It hit a concrete barrier and then slammed into a two-storey building. The reason for the crash, which took place near the city's boundary northeast of the airport, was not immediately known. — AFP
Government says at least 14 people died when a passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan.
"There are 14 dead at the (crash) site," Almaty city government says in a statement via its official channel on the Telegram messenger app.
It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a "serious condition". — AFP
Officials say two people were killed in a floatplane crash in Alaska, the second fatal incident involving the same local airline in a week.
"A pilot and a single passenger are deceased after a Taquan Air Beaver Floatplane crashed in Metlatkatla Harbor" Ketchikan Gateway Borough says in a statement.
"There were no other individuals on board the aircraft." — AFP
A Boeing 737 slid off a runway into a river after crash-landing at a Florida naval air station Friday, officials say, with no fatalities reported.
The plane carrying 143 people including crew from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba ended in shallow water next to the air station in Jacksonville, with all passengers safely evacuated, naval authorities say. — AFP
Singapore Airlines insists that cameras on its planes' entertainment systems had been disabled after an outcry online from worried passengers who spotted the tiny lenses peering at them.
Travelers took to Twitter and other social media to raise the alarm over the cameras at the bottom of seatback screens on a number of the Singapore flag carrier's newer aircraft. — AFP
Australian flag carrier Qantas confirms it would not take up eight Airbus A380s already ordered -- the latest blow for the European airspace firm.
In a statement, Sydney-based Qantas says it would focus instead on refurbishing its existing 12 Airbus super-jumbo planes. — AFP
New York's La Guardia airport has faced flight delays as air traffic control struggle with staff shortages linked to the partial federal government shutdown.
The Federal Aviation Administration's website says that arriving flights were being delayed an average of nearly 1.5 hours, and that departures were also affected. - AFP
Japanese defence minister says rescue operations were underway Thursday for five US marines missing after two American military aircraft crashed during a refuelling operation off the coast of Japan.
One crew member has already been rescued and is thought to be in a stable condition, Takeshi Iwaya tells reporters.
A spokesman for the Japanese Self-Defense says another crew member had been found but there were no immediate details of the marine's condition. — AFP
Investigators of the Oct. 28 crash of a Lion Air flight into the Java Sea say the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft was deemed airworthy when it made its final takeoff from Jakarta.
The officials have summoned reporters to refute reports on a news conference the day before where some media reported they had said the plane was not airworthy when it took off. — AP
Lion Air needs to improve its safety culture and better document repair work on its planes, Indonesia's transport safety agency says, in preliminary findings into a fatal crash last month.
Lion Air must take steps "to improve the safety culture and to enable the pilot to make (a) proper decision to continue the flight," it says in a statement, adding that the carrier must ensure "all the operation documents are properly filled and documented".
A budget airline based in Singapore will discontinue flights to Honolulu in June, citing low demand for the service.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports Singapore Airlines announced this week that its low-cost arm Scoot will end the Hawaii route.
The change comes as Scoot takes over several SilkAir routes over the next two years. The regional airline SilkAir is merging into Singapore Airlines. — AP
Indonesian authorities have wrapped up the grim task of identifying Lion Air jet crash victims from recovered body parts, with a preliminary report on the cause of the accident that killed 189 people due next week.
The Boeing 737 Max jet -- one of the world's newest and most advanced commercial planes -- plunged into the Java Sea on October 29 shortly after taking off from capital Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang city, killing all on board.
Since then, investigators have been doing DNA testing on recovered body parts. As of Friday, 125 people have been identified after testing on human remains that filled some 200 body bags, said Arthur Tampi, head of the national police medical centre. — AFP
A man was killed on the runway at Moscow's largest airport when he was hit by a plane that was taking off, Russian investigators say.
Russian news agencies quoted sources as saying the man was on a stopover in Moscow and had earlier picked a fight on board his flight from Spain. — AFP
Divers reported seeing the fuselage and engines of the crashed Lion Air jet on the seafloor and a ping locator has detected a signal that may be from the cockpit voice recorder, says Indonesia's search and rescue chief.
Muhammad Syaugi says "two engines and more landing gear have been found." — AP
Indonesian officials say a diver has died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people. - AFP
Divers have recovered a flight data recorder from the crashed Lion Air jet on the seafloor, a crucial development in the investigation into what caused the 2-month-old plane to plunge into Indonesian seas earlier this week, killing all 189 people on board.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane crashed early Monday just minutes after takeoff from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. It was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia in more than two decades and renewed concerns about safety in its fast-growing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and U.S. blacklists. — AP
Saudi Arabia says a military aircraft has crashed on a training mission in the kingdom.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency announces the crash on Tuesday. It said the crash happened Monday. It did not elaborate, other than to say the crash happened in the kingdom's northeast.
The report on SPA gave no casualty figures. — AP
The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday in Micronesia now says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane.
Air Niugini says in a release that as of Saturday afternoon, it was unable to account for a male passenger. The airline says it was working with local authorities, hospitals and investigators to try to find the man. — AP
All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing in a Pacific lagoon Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago.
Seven people were taken to a hospital, according to officials, including one described as being in a critical but stable condition. — AP
Qatar Airways says that a baby had died following a flight from Doha to the Indian city of Hyderabad.
A spokesperson for Qatar Airways says that the baby was an 11-month-old boy who had been on the flight with his parents in the early hours of Wednesday.
The parents became aware that their child was having breathing problems after the plane had landed as they made their way to the immigration counter, the spokesperson says. — AFP
Russia summons the Israeli ambassador to Moscow following the downing of a Russian plane over Syria which the Russian defence ministry has blamed on the Israeli air force.
"The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the foreign ministry over the situation," a representative of the ministry's press service says. — AFP
A helicopter with seven people on board crashed into a hillside in central Nepal on Saturday with the condition of the passengers unknown, officials say.
The single-pilot Kathmandu-bound Altitude Air helicopter was carrying six passengers, including a Japanese trekker, when it lost contact with air traffic control after taking off from the central district of Gorkha. — AFP
One person died -- apparently of a heart attack -- and 18 people sought medical help when a plane skidded off a runway in Russia's Olympic city of Sochi, slid into a river and caught fire during landing early Saturday, officials say.
The Boeing 737 flying from Moscow with 166 passengers and six crew members overshot a runway as it attempted to land in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, damaged a wing and caught fire. — AP
An investigation into a deadly plane crash at Nepal's international airport has blamed the captain who wept and suffered an emotional breakdown during the flight after his skills had been questioned, a draft of the report read.
The March 12 flight from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka crash-landed at Kathmandu airport and skidded into a football field where it burst into flames, killing 51 people in the deadliest aviation accident in the Himalayan nation for decades. — AFP
A Swedish Air Force jet fighter crashed Tuesday near an air base in southern Sweden after striking several birds as it was about to land, Sweden's Armed Forces says.
The pilot of the Swedish-built JAS 39 Gripen fighter aborted the landing he was attempting and ejected, says Col. Lars Bergstrom, head of the Blekinge Air Force Wing near Ronneby in southern Sweden. — AP
Police say they arrested Franco Sepulveda Robles, 29, in the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta after investigators linked his cellphone to the wave of threats that disrupted flights.
Robles, a Chilean made false bomb threats against an airline for not returning his suitcase, which caused up to 11 commercial flights to take emergency measures in Chile, Argentina and Peru. — AP
The crash of a passenger airplane taken from the Seattle airport in the US state of Washington was "not a terrorist incident," the local sheriff's office says.
"This is not a terrorist incident. Confirmed info .. this is a single suicide male. We know who he is. No others involved," the office of the Pierce County Sheriff says. — AFP
A small airplane that crashed in Alaska's Denali National Park, killing five people on board, will remain on a near-vertical mountainside because of the substantial risk to recovery crews, officials said Friday.
The National Park Service announces it will end efforts to recover bodies and wreckage of the K2 Aviation airplane that crashed Aug. 4 near the summit of Thunder Mountain. — AP
Russian airline says helicopter has crashed after takeoff in Siberia, killing all 18 aboard. — AP
Dozens of Ryanair passengers have been discharged from hospital after being treated for nausea following an unscheduled landing in Germany.
The pilot of the flight from Dublin to Zadar, Croatia, decided to land at Frankfurt-Hahn airport after the cabin pressure dropped.
German police says 33 of the 189 passengers on board complained of headaches, ear pain and nausea, and were taken to a nearby hospital. All were able to leave again by Saturday morning.
A replacement flight was scheduled to take the passengers to Croatia on Saturday. — AP
A small chartered plane crashed Thursday in a busy area of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, killing at least six people including two on the ground, police says.
The fatalities included two pilots and two flight engineers on the aircraft. — AP
Police say chartered plane has crashed in Mumbai, India's financial capital; number of passengers and injuries unclear. — AP
Authorities say they've arrested a 19-year-old man accused of sprinting shirtless toward a jet at Atlanta's airport and jumping on the wing.
News outlets report Atlanta Police have charged Jhryin Jones with criminal trespassing, public indecency and obstruction of law enforcement officers.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Stephanie Brown tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Jones scaled a fence Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and ran onto an active taxiway. She says he then jumped on the wing of a recently landed Delta Air Lines flight from Miami and pounded on windows.
Video obtained by WSB-TV shows a shirtless man sprinting across a grassy area toward an aircraft. Photographs showed the man being detained on the ground by officers.
The airport tweeted there was no impact on operations.
It wasn't immediately clear if Jones has a lawyer. — AP
Russia is rejecting the claim by the Netherlands and Australia that it is legally responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine nearly four years ago, killing all 298 people on board.
The accusations came a day after international investigators announced that the missile system that brought down the plane was whisked into Ukraine from a Russian military unit. Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said "the government is now taking the next step by formally holding Russia accountable."
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, rejected the accusations. He said Friday that Russia has been barred from the investigation and thus can't trust its results. He also charged that Ukraine contributed to the tragedy by failing to ban civilian air traffic over the war zone. — AP
The confirmed death toll climbed to at least 10 as more bodies were recovered at the crash site in Plaridel, Bulacan.
Seven people have been tragically killed as their plane plummeted into a house in Bulacan.
Retrieval operation is ongoing.
FULL STORY: 7 dead as small plane crashes in Bulacan residential area
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