Third Aircraft Crashed in Just two days !!
Shocking News two
days - 3 Aircraft Crash
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Congo plane crash kills
19
A passenger plane crashed Wednesday in western Congo, killing 19
people, but police said there were two survivors.
Col. Joli Limengo, police chief of Bandundu province where the
plane crashed midday, said 19 bodies had been pulled from the
wreckage.
The plane operated by local airliner FILAIR was going from
central Congo to Bandundu when it crashed. It was due to then
continue on to the capital of Kinshasa.
Congo has one of the worst air safety records in the world. The
Central African country's safety regulations are notoriously lax.
Few passable roads traverse Congo after decades of war and
corrupt rule, forcing the country's deeply impoverished people to
rely on ill-maintained planes and boats to move around.
2.
Nepal air
crash
The Yeti Airlines plane was carrying 16 passengers and three crew
when it crashed during landing at an airport in the eastern town
of Lukla, they said.
Only one Nepalese man, the pilot, survived the crash.
The plane reportedly caught fire after crash-landing and hitting
the perimeter boundary at the airstrip.
"There were 12 Germans and two Australians on the flight,"
airport official Mohan Adhikari told the AFP news agency.
Earlier reports said that two Swiss tourists had died, but they
were later confirmed as Australian.
Four Nepalis - two passengers and two crew members - were also
killed, according to Mr Adhikari.
Nestling on a mountainside at 9,380ft (2,860m), Lukla's
Tenzing-Hillary airport is popular with mountaineers and trekkers
heading for expeditions in the Himalayas.
In fine weather, there are daily flights between Lukla and the
Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
Lukla's runway is just 20m wide and is set on a slope, with a
steep 700m drop at one end.
3.
42 dead in China plane
crash
BEIJING (AFP) – A Chinese airliner crashed and burst into flames
while attempting to land in northeast China, killing 42 people on
board, state media reported on Wednesday.
The Henan Airlines plane broke into two pieces late Tuesday
before it smashed into the ground while trying to touch down at
an airport in the city of Yichun in remote Heilongjiang province,
the official Xinhua news agency said.
There were 91 passengers, including five children, and five crew
on board, Xinhua said, citing a source at the Civil Aviation
Administration of China (CAAC).
More than 40 bodies had been found, Xinhua said, and the rest on
board had been rushed to hospital.
Some passengers were thrown out of the cabin before the turbine
jet hit the ground.
The crash occurred shortly after 9:30 pm (1330 GMT) near Yichun's
Lindu airport, around 40 minutes after the plane took off from
Harbin, the provincial capital.
Rescue crews at the crash site were seen putting victims' remains
in body bags, Xinhua reported, while the charred wreckage of the
plane, which came to rest two kilometres (a mile) from the
runway, remained cordoned off.
Anxious relatives waited on open ground near the airport, Xinhua
said, but dense fog was hampering the rescue effort.
Books, rubbish and cabin debris was scattered across the muddy
crash site.
Wang Xuemei, the vice mayor of Yichun who oversaw the rescue
efforts, said most of the survivors had suffered broken bones.
The aircraft was an ERJ-190 jet, a passenger aircraft
manufactured by Brazilian aerospace conglomerate Embraer.
Embraer offered its condolences to the victims' families and said
it had sent a team of technicians to help with the investigation.
The cause of the crash was still unclear and work teams searched
through the wreckage for the plane's black box flight data
recorder.
But Xinhua said Chinese carriers using ERJ-190s had reported
technical problems in the past and the CAAC called a workshop
last June to discuss the issues.
Notes from the meeting -- which involved Kunpeng Airlines, as
Henan Airlines was previously known -- showed that breaks of the
turbine plates and flight control system errors were among the
problems, Xinhua said.
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang led a team of transport,
safety and security officials to Yichun to deal with the
aftermath of the crash and begin investigation work, Xinhua said.
The CAAC has also sent a 20-strong group of technicians and
officials to the scene, it said.
Lindu airport is in a forest around nine kilometres (five miles)
outside of central Yichun, a city of one million people around
150 kilometres from the border with Russia.
Henan Airlines, based in the central province of the same name,
launched the Yichun-Harbin service a year ago and operated the
route three times a week, Xinhua said.
The carrier is run by Shenzhen Airlines, based in the southern
city of the same name.
Xinhua said CAAC records showed Tuesday's crash was China's first
major air disaster in more than five years, since a China Eastern
Airlines jet crashed in Baotou City in Inner Mongolia, killing 53
people on board and two on the ground.
The Yichun crash came a week after a North Korean
military aircraft came down on a house in Liaoning province, also
in China's northeast, killing the pilot.
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