A Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran was on fire and tried to turn around before crashing, Iranian investigators have said in a preliminary report. Iran has invited all relevant parties to participate in the probe. Eyewitnesses observed a fire on the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 while it was still airborne, Iran’s civil aviation organization noted. The aircraft attempted... 

US President Donald Trump has decided to ground all Boeing 737 Max airplanes, citing safety concerns after the fatal crash in Ethiopia. The US was among the last holdovers in grounding the controversial jet. This defective plane is now banned almost everywhere in the world. Good! “The safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern,” Trump said Wednesday at the White House,... 

As the troubled Boeing 737 MAX jets are being diverted in European skies, with nations shutting airspace over the deadly crash in Ethiopia one by one, an Israeli-bound Norwegian Airlines plane was forced to return to Stockholm. Data from tracker website Flightradar24 shows that Norwegian flight DY4545 got as far as Romania before the plane was diverted back to Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The U-turn... 

Months after a deadly crash in Indonesia involving the same model, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has crashed on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, minutes after take-off. Operated by Ethiopian Airlines, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was on a routine flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the Kenyan capital. The airline confirmed that there were no survivors. The Ethiopian prime minister’s... 

Australia Day celebrations turned sour Thursday when a plane crashed into the water in Perth, with two people inside. The incident, which was caught on camera, prompted organizers to cancel a firework display after fruitless attempts to rescue the victims. The Grumman G-73 Mallard flying boat made a dramatic descent into the Swan River as onlookers who had gathered for the Australia Day firework display... 

President Putin promised to find those responsible for the Russian passenger plane crash in Egypt in any part of the world and exact revenge. The announcement was made at a meeting at which the final results of the investigation into the causes of the tragedy were officially confirmed. “It is not the first time Russia has faced these barbaric terrorist crimes, which often come without any visible... 

The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin. “We can say that that [Sinai plane crash] was a terror act,” Bortnikov told Putin. According to the FSB chief, experts analyzed passengers’ belongings as well as the... 

Long form document stoked suspicions of forgery. The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in an unexplained plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today. Everyone else onboard survived the plane crash, except for her. Was Loretta Fuddy’s plane crash just a tragic accident, or did she have... 

A passenger plane has crashed into a two-story building in the Nigerian city of Lagos. The Nigerian Civial Aviation Authority has confirmed there are no survivors. ­Thick clouds of black smoke can be seen at the site of the crash. Emergency services have been dispatched to the location. The head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said the Dana Air flight was heading to Lagos from the capital... 

The debris of Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet-100 has been found in Indonesia. The state-of-the-art airplane went off radar screens yesterday as the plane was performing a demonstration flight in Indonesian capital Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed the crash of the plane at a news conference Thursday and demanded meticulous investigation be conducted to find out the causes... 

The quantity of airlines in Russia must be cut considerably, whereas the training of pilots should be controlled strictly, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev stated. On September 8, the president visited the crash site of the Yak-42 plane in Yaroslavl, which claimed the lives of 43 people – Lokomotiv hockey players and the crewmembers. Afterwards, Medvedev conducted a special meeting, in which he... 

Chilean TV presenter and actor Felipe Camiroaga was on a plane that disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on its way to the remote Juan Fernandez archipelago. A Chilean air force plane with 21 people aboard, including a popular television host, has crashed into the ocean near the Juan Fernandez islands off the country’s Pacific coast. The plane tried twice to land at the airport on one of the islands... 

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 132, officials said. Russian and Polish officials said there were no survivors on the 26-year-old Tupolev, which was taking the president, his wife and staff to events marking...