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Showing posts with label Plane crash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plane crash. Show all posts

Monday, 22 February 2016

We ate our Friends body to survive for 10 weeks, after plane Crash in the Andes

This is a story that looks like something out of a horror movie, but it's very real, though it is a long piece but i bet you will not want to miss this for anything...It's the story of the survivors of a plane that crashed in the Andes, who had to eat the bodies of their dead friends in order to survive. One of the survivors wrote this haunting and deeply moving book detailing their 10 weeks near death experience and journey to find help:

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Deadliest Accident in Aviation History 'The Tenerife Collision'

Dear DTB readers, I decided to do this post because of the recent crashes in the aviation industry in the past two weeks, from the BA's plane failed landing gear at OR Tambo International airport in South Africa to the crash Russian passenger jet that crashed in Sinai killing all 224 on board-the latest being the crash of another Russian plan in Sudan.

The Deadliest accident in aviation History: Just like every other day, everything seems fine on Sunday, March 27, 1977 at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Island until a bomb explosion at Gran Canaria Airport and a threat of a second bomb prompted authorities to divert flights to Los Rodeos Airport. Among the diverted flights were KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 - the two aircraft involved in the ground collision with a total fatalities of 583 and total survivors 61 making it the deadliest accident in aviation industry.

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Scores dead in South Sudan plane crash

OMG! Not again, Barely four days after the ill-fated Russian passenger jet crashed over Sinai, Egypt killing all on board another plane has crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in South Sudan, killing more than 40 people, officials said. Three passengers reportedly survived.

The tail fin of the Russian-built plane and other parts were seen scattered along the banks of the White Nile river near the airport in Juba, the capital, on Wednesday. 

Witnesses told Reuters news agency that they counted at least 40 bodies at the crash site. 

The director of Juba International airport said "three people survived the crash", while local news outlets reported that only two people survived, one of them a child. 

A police officer near the scene, who did not give his name, also said there were two survivors, including a child, but could not say how many people were on board.

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

US satellite detects heat flash suggest a bomb on Crashed Russian Passanger Jet

New reports by US officials claimed that an American infra-red satelite detected a heat flash on the route of the ill-fated Russian passanger jet that crashed in Sinai Egypt on Saturday killing all 224 on board.

Contrary to claims by Islamist new report suggest a bomb on the aircraft exploded leaving a hole at the back of the jet.

Saturday, 29 August 2015

NIGERIA: Military aircraft crashes in Kaduna (Updated)


Oh no not again! Barely two weeks after an Helicopter belonging to Bristow air crashed in Oworonshoki Lagos, Nigeria another aircraft this time a military aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crashed earlier today at the old site of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria.

Sunday, 16 August 2015

UPDATE: Missing Indonesian Plane reportedly found crashed in remote Papua region

Missing Indonesian plane has been found by local villagers. says Indonesia's transport ministry.

The Triana Air Service owned twin-turboprop aircraft lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region.
There were no reports yet of any survivors. Indonesia's transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told news agencies search and rescue teams would head to the site at first light on Monday. The two eight-member teams would leave Jayapura at 6am AEST.

The plane left Jayapura's Sentani Airport for Oksibil, the capital of Papua province due south of Jayapura, at 2.33pm and lost contact at 2.55pm.

Ten minutes before it was due to land, the plane contacted Oksibil control tower asking to descend, Captain Beny Sumaryanto, Trigana Air's service director of operations, said.

But the plane never arrived. Half an hour later, Trigana Air sent another turboprop plane over the same route to look for the missing aircraft, he said.

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

NIGERIA: Unidentified Helicopter crashes into the Lagoon in Lagos


Copter_Crash_SceneAn unidentified helicopter this afternoon crashed into the Lagoon at Oworonshoki, Lagos Nigeria.
National Emergency management spokesperson told reporters that three people has been rescued and 3 dead bodies have been recovered from the scene of the crash. Meanwhile rescue operation is still on going as at the time of filling this report...
Details shortly..........

Friday, 7 August 2015

Delta flight catches fire just before take-off at Nashville Airport

A Delta-operated SkyWest plane caught fire Friday on the tarmac at Nashville International Airport.
A Delta-operated SkyWest plane caught fire on the tarmac of Nashville International Airport earlier today. The plane was heading to Cincinnati, Ohio, scheduled to depart at 6:34 a.m. CDT.
The plane had just turned on its engine and had not yet reached the runway when the fire began, according to airport spokeswoman Shannon Sumrall.

Saturday, 1 August 2015

UK Plane Crash Update: Bin Laden's 'stepmother and sister among four killed'

The Bin Laden owned Embraer Phenom 300, pictured, had just arrived from Milan when it overshot the runway
Osama Bin Laden's stepmother and sister are thought to be among four people killed after a private jet owned by the family crashed into a fireball after overshooting a runway while trying to land outside London.
The £7million Embraer Phenom 300 was owned by Salem Aviation in Jeddah, which is controlled by the dead terrorist’s family.

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Plane crashes into quiet Tokyo neighbourhood, 3 killed and 3 pulled alive from the wreckage

A small plane crashed into a row of houses, killing three people and injuring five others in the Japanese city of Tokyo.
Three people were pulled alive from the burning wreckage, which left several of the houses gutted from fire and smoke damage. 
Dramatic photos show the splintered remains of the single-propeller plane after it careered into the houses in the quiet suburb of Chofu, west Tokyo. 
Destroyed: The tail of the plane lies severed after the plane smashed into the row of houses

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Germany: Bodies of victims of Germanwings crash return home



Bodies of victims of the Germanwings airplane believed to have been deliberately crashed in the French Alps in March was on Tuesday night flown from Marseille to Germany.
A cortege carrying the coffins of German schoolchildren killed in the Germanwings plane crash has arrived in their home town of Haltern.
Residents holding white roses lined the route as the convoy of white hearses passed the children’s school.

Earlier, relatives of 44 of the 150 victims viewed their coffins inside a hangar at Duesseldorf airport.
The victims’ remains are the first to be repatriated following delays over errors on the death certificates.

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