Thursday 17 May 2012
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ISLAMABAD: A Bhoja Airline’s Islamabad-bound maiden flight # B4-213 has crashed near Chaklala airbase. According to sources, a Boeing 737 with 118 passengers and nine crew members on board, which flew from Karachi at 5:00 PM was supposed to land in Islamabad at 6:50 PM, but crashed just before touchdown.
Thirty-one people died Monday when a Russian plane crashed and burst into flames upon take-off from a Siberian airport at which another Boeing jumbo jet had to abort its flight only a few hours later.
An Indonesian plane carrying 27 people crashed into the sea off the remote Papua province, the transport ministry said Saturday, and media said at least 15 people were killed.
WELLINGTON: Nine people are believed to have been killed when a plane crashed at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, medical officials said. The plane went down near the airstrip at Fox Glacier, a central attraction in the UNESCO-designated World Heritage area on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island.
MONTREAL: A small plane has crashed onto the roof of an office building near Toronto, killing the pilot and his passenger, police said.The single-engine Cirrus SR-20 crashed in Markham, Ontario following an explosion, according to witness reports in Canadian media. The police declined to elaborate on what damage was done to the building.