A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air – which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes – missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the sea but everybody on board survived.
A helicopter with 13 people aboard, headed to a Perenco oil production facility, crashed into a jungle in northeastern Peru Sunday, and there were no signs of survivors, the company said.
China’s Defense Ministry said two air force pilots were killed when their Russian-made Su-27 fighter crashed during a training mission.
Three people were killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash Sunday in a rural area of Los Angeles County, authorities said.
A US air force F-16 fighter jet based in northern Italy went missing over the Adriatic Monday after the pilot reported a problem in his last radio communication, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
An Air Bagan flight made an emergency landing Tuesday on a road in central Myanmar, killing two people and injuring 11, officials said.
The investigation results were harsh. The fate of Aviatour Fly’n Inc. , the Cebu flying school and air charter company of the late Capt. Jessup Bahinting, looked dim after aviation investigators concluded that the Aug. 18 plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, Bahinting and his co-pilot, was due to pilot error, poor aircraft maintenance and even collusion with regulatory inspectors about the airworthiness of its planes.
A Turkish military helicopter crashed Saturday in the southeastern city of Siirt, killing all 17 troops on board, according to local officials.
Outgoing Transportation Secretary Manuel Roxas warned the public against making their own conclusions based on “speculative” statements by certain civil aviation personnel ruling out foul play in the August 18 plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo.
Civil aviation authorities have ruled out foul play in the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and two others last month, dashing persistent speculation that the popular home affairs chief was the victim of a conspiracy.
The government has grounded the entire fleet of the charter company that owned the four-seat Piper Seneca plane that crashed in Masbate province on Saturday, killing Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, its pilot and company owner Capt. Jessup Bahinting and a Nepali student copilot.
Cebu Representative Tomas Osmeña on Wednesday criticized the seeming lack of order in the search and rescue operations for Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo after his plane crashed on Saturday, saying that he hired a private plane to help but was waved off.
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