Tag: Plane

Plane With 8 Aboard Crashes Off North Carolina; 1 Body Found

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.—A small plane carrying eight people crashed into the ocean off North Carolina’s Outer Banks and left behind multiple debris fields where crews searched for the missing passengers, the Coast Guard said. One body has so far been recovered and identified, Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck told reporters Monday afternoon. He declined to…


Iceland Rescuers Search for Missing Plane With 3 Tourists

REYKJAVIK, Iceland—Rescue teams in Iceland were searching Friday for a small plane that is thought to have crashed while carrying three foreign tourists on a sightseeing trip. More than 500 members of Iceland’s Search and Rescue organization, along with boats, divers, and two Icelandic Coast Guard helicopters, were combing the Thingvellir National Park area in…


Ryanair Calls on Belarus to Guarantee No Repeat of Plane Diversion

DUBLIN—The Irish airline Ryanair on Monday urged Belarus to guarantee that there would be no repeat of the forced landing of one of its flights last May, and said airlines should not fly over Belarus without such a guarantee. The plane was overflying Belarus on its way from Athens to Vilnius when Belarus controllers ordered…


4 Japanese Planes Fly More Aid to Tonga After Volcanic Blast

CANBERRA, Australia—Four Japanese aircraft left Australia on Monday to deliver more vital aid to Tonga as the Pacific nation deals with the aftermath of a volcanic eruption and tsunami. The two Japanese Lockheed C-130 Hercules and two Kawasaki C-2 left the Royal Australian Air Force Base at Amberley in Queensland state to make the 3,300-kilometer…


Plane Hit by Train After Crashing on Train Tracks in California

Police in Los Angeles, California, pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train on Sunday, sending debris flying in all directions. Dramatic video obtained by Reuters shows several officers freeing the man from the downed plane, which had crashed shortly after takeoff in the Pacoima neighborhood, according…


Families Call on Ottawa to Pursue Accountability for Iran in Downed Plane

Canada must boost its efforts to hold Iran to account after the regime’s forces shot down a passenger jet two years ago, family members of the victims said Saturday. At a memorial for those who died on board the Ukrainian International Airlines flight on Jan. 8, 2020, a group representing their loved ones expressed anger…


Official: Utah Man, Tucson Girl Die in Arizona Plane Crash

SHOW LOW, Ariz.—A Utah man and a Tucson girl were killed when a single-engine plane crashed near the airport of the east-central Arizona city of Show Low, a fire official said Thursday. Deputy Chief Randy Chevalier of the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District identified those killed Wednesday as pilot David A. Gillette, 40, and…


Man Who Jumped From Taxiing Plane in Phoenix Jailed, ID’d

PHOENIX—Authorities have identified a man who jumped out of a jetliner’s galley door to the tarmac as the plane was taxiing to a gate at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Phoenix police said 30-year-old Daniel Ramirez was booked into jail Saturday night on suspicion of two felony counts of trespassing. It was unclear Sunday…


British Aerospace Engineer Claims MH370 Wreck Lies 4 Kilometers Deep in Indian Ocean

A British aerospace engineer claims to have found the final resting place of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 using revolutionary new tracking technology. Expert Richard Godfrey, a founding member of the non-government MH370 Independent Group, says he is confident that the plane crashed into the southern Indian Ocean 1,993 kilometers (1,238 miles) west of Perth and…


Couple Detained on Plane After Leaving Dutch Quarantine

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Dutch military police arrested a husband and wife Sunday who had left a hotel where they were being quarantined after testing positive for COVID-19 and boarded a plane. Local media reported that the couple were trying to fly home to Spain. A spokeswoman for the local security authority that covers Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport…