A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are still unknown, Kenyan officials say. Low-earth orbit is getting increasingly congested. There are currently more than 170 million pieces of debris wider than 0.004 inches […]
Two people have died and 18 others were injured after a small plane crashed into a commercial building in southern California, officials say. Ten people were taken to hospital with injuries, the Fullerton Police Department said in a post on X on Thursday afternoon. Eight others were treated for injuries and released at the scene. […]
A driver deliberately crashed his truck into a crowd of New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans and then opened fire, killing 10 people and injuring more than 35, in an attack the FBI said it was investigating as an act of terrorism. The suspect died after a shootout with police, law enforcement officials said. […]
A Jeju Air passenger jet carrying 181 people from Bangkok sped off the runway and burst into flames. Two crew were rescued in what was the country’s worst air disaster in decades.
The passenger plane was landing when it went off the runway in Muan. The flight came from Bangkok and was carrying 181 people.
Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived.
(Refiles removing garbled text in advisory) By Mariya Gordeyeva ASTANA (Reuters) -An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying that 28 people had survived. Unverified video of the crash showed the plane, […]
All 10 passengers have been killed and more than a dozen people on the ground injured after a small plane crashed into a house in southern Brazil. The Civil Defence Agency said the aircraft hit the chimney of the home and then the second floor of a building before crashing into a mobile phone shop […]
The 10 on board were not believed to have survived, while at least 17 other people were injured on the ground.
STORY: A judge has thrown out Boeing’s plea deal over two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets. The incidents killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, and were traced to a design flaw. Relatives of the victims had called the firm’s agreement with the Department of Justice a “sweetheart” deal that failed to hold […]
