An Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday morning shortly after it took off from Beirut International Airport. News reports said that 85 people were on board.
A woman who answered the phone at the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority said that the plane, which was headed for Addis Ababa, crashed after it took [...]
Last Saturday, 23 of February 2008, the world barely acknowledged the most expensive air crash in the history of aviation. ONE $BILLION ($US) of air accident occurred on Guam, in our neck of the woods. It was a B2 Stealth Bomber, which allegedly dropped as it took off from the US Air base there. This [...]
Qantas and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said they will consult with and assist Dutch crash investigators after a QF 737-800 last week suffered a radio altimeter malfunction similar to the one that is suspected of causing the loss of a Turkish Airlines -800 on approach to Amsterdam on Feb. 25.
Qantas Flight 1020, an -800 [...]
Nobody was seriously hurt and no damage was done on the ground. But the crash of a B-2 stealth bomber on the Pacific island of Guam yesterday – the first involving this type of aircraft – was the world’s worst air disaster by one measure: money.
Only 22 B-2s have ever been made. The cost of [...]
