Russian helicopter carrying nine crashes in Siberia

A Russian helicopter carrying nine people, including senior rescue service officials, has crashed in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia, an official said Monday.

A Russian helicopter carrying nine people, including senior rescue service officials, has crashed in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia, an official said Monday.

A Korean Air flight from Seoul bound for Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Narita airport on Sunday after smoke filled the cockpit, Japanese media reported.

Local technicians are not capable of fixing the Lumbia airport’s busted runway threshold identifier lights or RTILs here, prompting local airport authorities to send damaged parts to Manila for repair, according to an area official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

The grandson of a pilot who flew the first flight over the world’s highest mountain, Nepal’s Mount Everest, retraced the route Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the feat.

More Cebu Pacific flights to and from Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City have been cancelled after the facility’s runway lights were disabled by lightning last Monday.

A training plane made a forced landing Tuesday morning at Plaridel Airport in Bulacan, but its pilot and his trainee were both unhurt, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines said.

Amid the exodus of people from Metro Manila to the provinces for the long Holy Week break, 14 flights at Ninoy Aquino International Airport were cancelled on Wednesday due to technical problems and aircraft problems, authorities said.

One person died Thursday as two helicopters collided over Berlin’s iconic Olympic Stadium during a police security exercise for operations against football hooligans, authorities said.

Several flights and sea crossings by inter-island ferries were cancelled Tuesday because of bad weather and rough seas caused by tropical depression “Crising.”

The Federal Aviation Administration late Thursday approved Boeing’s request to conduct test flights of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft as part of the FAA’s battery fire probe.

Iran on Saturday unveiled a fighter jet it said was designed and built domestically, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touting it as “one of the most advanced” aircraft in the world.

All 20 people on board a domestic flight in Kazakhstan operated by the SCAT airline died Tuesday when their Bombardier jet crashed on approach to Almaty airport in thick fog, the airline 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.