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3 killed in Australia plane crash: Aircraft crashes at New South Wales Airport; flight catches fire after landing

A light aircraft crashed at an airport in New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday morning, killing all three people on board, police confirmed.“Upon impacting with the ground, the aircraft caught on fire which was extinguished by Fire and Rescue NSW,” the police said through a statement. “Three people are confirmed deceased.“The plane crashed at Shellharbour […]

Taiwan reports 15 Chinese aircraft, 1 warship near island; majority cross median line

Taiwan detects 15 Chinese aircraft and 1 naval vessels near its territory Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) on Tuesday reported a surge in Chinese military activity around the island, with 15 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and one PLA Navy (PLAN) vessel detected by 6 am local time. According to the MND, 11 of […]

Romania, Poland, scramble aircraft as drones strike Ukraine

KYIV: Romania became the latest Nato member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace Saturday, as Poland scrambled aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was deliberately expanding its drone operations and that the West needed to respond with tougher […]

Wyoming plane crash: Teen killed, three injured as aircraft goes down in mountains; FAA launches probe

A 13-year-old girl was killed and three of her relatives were seriously injured when a small plane crashed in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming, authorities said Tuesday.The crash happened late Monday afternoon near Big Mountain, an 8,200-foot peak about 15 miles west of Sheridan. A medical service helicopter spotted the wreckage after being asked […]

Watch: Aircraft nosedives on Italian highway, turns into a fireball; 2 killed | World News

Watch: Aircraft nosedives on Italian highway, turns into a fireball; two killed Harrowing moment of an aircraft crashing nose-first onto a highway in northern Italy on Tuesday was caught on camera. The video shows an Italian Freccia RG aircraft doing swoops in the sky before diving steeply, hitting the road, and exploding into a massive […]

US flight attendant sentenced to prison: Estes Carter Thompson filmed underage girls in aircraft lavatory, taped phone under toilet seat

An American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for filming girls inside the airplane’s toilet.Estes Carter Thompson, 37, had confessed in March to taping his phone to the airplane’s toilet lid, according to the New York Post. He filmed about five underage girls as young as seven years […]

‘Aircraft malfunction’: Chinese domestic flight makes emergency landing in Nanjing; passengers report burning smell

Representative Image (AI-generated) A Chinese domestic flight of Shandong Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing in Nanjing on Friday after multiple passengers reported a burning odour, according to the South China Morning Post.Flight SC4667 en route from Qingdao to Shanghai diverted back to Nanjing after it experienced an “aircraft malfunction”. The airline said […]

Israel-Iran war: US moves B-2 bombers to Guam, one aircraft can carry 30000-pound bunker-buster bombs

Several B2 bombers reportedly moved to Guam amid Israel-Iran war. Several US Air Force B-2 bombers reportedly have taken off from a base in the United States and moved toward the Pacific island of Guam while President Donald Trump has taken two weeks’ time to decide whether the US should take part in Israel’s strikes […]

Boeing 787 safe to fly? US says no current evidence for grounding aircraft; Air India crash under review

US officials have said there is no current evidence to justify grounding Boeing 787 aircraft, after a deadly Air India crash killed over 240 people on Thursday, when a Dreamliner took off from Ahmedabad and crashed into a residential complex just 30 seconds after take-off.Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy […]

Delta warns Trump’s tariffs on commercial planes could ground millions a year, disrupt aircraft deliveries

Delta Air Lines has issued a stark warning that proposed tariffs under a national security investigation could severely disrupt its operations, potentially grounding flights for millions of passengers annually.In legal documentation submitted to the US government and shared with Fox News Digital, Delta objected to possible tariffs stemming from a Commerce Department probe into the […]