Tag: aviation accident investigation
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Today In 2011: A Navigator’s GPS Mistake And A Midnight Fog Approach Led To A Tragic Crash That Killed 47 People
On the night of June 20, 2011, RusAir Flight 9605 was operating a domestic passenger service from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Petrozavodsk in Russia’s Republic of Karelia. The aircraft involved was a Tupolev Tu-134A, a Soviet-era twin-engine airliner carrying 52 people, including passengers and crew. What should have been a routine late-night flight ended in…
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Cessna Citation Latitude Jet Crashes In Laredo, Texas – 1 Dead, 5 Others Evacuated In A Dramatic Rescue
A tragic business jet accident occurred late on June 16, 2026, when a NetJets-operated Cessna 680 Citation Latitude, registration N523QS, crashed near Loop 20 and Saunders Street in Laredo, Texas, during an emergency diversion. The aircraft had departed from San José del Cabo International Airport (SJD) in Baja California Sur, Mexico, and was en route…
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Cracked Parts Had Been Flagged Ahead Of Kentucky UPS MD11 Crash That Killed 15 People
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed on Tuesday that it is reviewing reports of cracks in a wing mount before the left engine sheared off from a UPS freight airplane on takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, in November, resulting in a crash that killed 15 people. That information surfaced at the beginning of a two-day…
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Pilot Was Clutching Controls Witness Reveals Morgue Horror After Air India Crash
A man who gained access to the morgue where victims of the fiery Air India AI-171 crash were kept has revealed he witnessed scenes he “can never unsee”, including the body of the plane’s captain still clutching the aircraft’s steering column. The London-bound Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into the hostel building…
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