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Jun
11
2023
By The African Mirror
Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

WORLD
LUIS JAIME ACOSTA FOUR children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in a thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia's Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed. The plane - a Cessna 206 - was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara airport, in Caqueta province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday…
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May
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

WORLD
FOUR children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the south of the country more than two weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle, President Gustavo Petro said. The children were rescued by members of the military, firefighters and civil aviation authority officials in the dense jungle of Colombia's Caqueta province. The plane - a Cessna 206 - was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure in the…
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Feb
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Pilot of crashed Nepal plane reported no power in engines -preliminary report

Pilot of crashed Nepal plane reported no power in engines -preliminary report

WORLD
GOPAL SHARMA THE pilot of a Yeti Airlines plane which crashed in Nepal killing 71 people said before the crash there was no power from the aircraft's engines, a preliminary investigation report said. The plane crashed just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhra on January 15 in one of Nepal's worst aeroplane accidents in 30 years. There were 72 passengers on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, including two infants, four crew members and 10 foreign nationals. Rescuers recovered 71 bodies, with one unaccounted person presumed to be dead. The report said the pilot…
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Jan
16
2023
By The African Mirror
At least 68 killed in Nepal’s worst air crash in three decades

At least 68 killed in Nepal’s worst air crash in three decades

WORLD
GOPAL SHARMA AT least 68 people were killed when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation. Hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside where the flight carrying 72 people from the capital Kathmandu went down. Officials late in the evening called off the search operations for the day, saying they will resume on Monday. Local TV footage earlier showed rescue workers scrambling around broken sections of the aircraft. Some of the ground near the crash site was scorched, with licks of flames visible. The…
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Nov
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Mourners weep over 19 coffins after Tanzania plane crash

Mourners weep over 19 coffins after Tanzania plane crash

NEWS
WEEPING relatives of the 19 people who died when a plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania filed past a row of coffins in the lakeside town of Bukoba on Monday as religious and political leaders gathered for a ceremony to honour the victims. Flight PW494, operated by Tanzanian airline Precision Air and carrying 43 people, hit the water in stormy weather as it tried to land at Bukoba airport early on Sunday morning, arriving from the capital Dar es Salaam. Transport Minister Makame Mbarawa told mourners gathered in a stadium that the weather had abruptly changed from good to…
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Jul
19
2022
By The African Mirror
30 survive Somalia plane crash

30 survive Somalia plane crash

NEWS
A passenger plane crash-landed at an airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, with no deaths reported and all those on board - more than 30 passengers - rescued. Video from the scene showed the plane upside down after having apparently flipped over on landing. Black smoke and flames rose into the air as fire trucks approached the runway and firefighters started hosing down the crashed plane. https://youtu.be/79mmcnb5Fvg Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Jul
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Putin lifts ban on charter flights to Egypt six years after crash

Putin lifts ban on charter flights to Egypt six years after crash

NEWS
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin scrapped Russia's ban on charter flights to Egypt on Thursday, six years after suspending them for national security reasons in the aftermath of a plane crash. The flights were stopped after a Metrojet plane taking Russian holidaymakers back from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg broke up over the Sinai Peninsula in October 2015, killing 224 people. Russia concluded the plane was destroyed by a bomb. A group affiliated with Islamic State militants claimed responsibility. Putin's decree lifting the ban will be a boon for Egypt's year-round resorts in Sharm al-Sheikh and Hurghada which attracted large numbers of…
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Jun
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Plane crash in eastern Congo kills three

Plane crash in eastern Congo kills three

NEWS
A small plane crashed shortly after take-off in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, killing all three people on board, the region's governor said. The plane was carrying two pilots and a passenger when it crashed near Kavumu airport, which serves Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. First responders in fluorescent bibs picked through the crumpled wreckage in the middle of a large field, according to a Reuters witness at the crash site. "I confirm the crash. There were three people on board who all died," South Kivu Governor Theo Kasi told Reuters. Air accidents are common in eastern…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian army chief dies in air force plane crash

Nigerian army chief dies in air force plane crash

NEWS
PAUL CARSTEN and CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA'S army chief Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died in a plane crash yesterday on an official visit to the northern state of Kaduna, which has had security challenges in recent months, three military sources told Reuters. The air force said in a statement that its plane crashed near Kaduna airport and that it was investigating the immediate cause of the crash. The crash comes three months after a small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport following alleged engine failure, killing all seven people on board. The sources, who spoke on condition…
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Jan
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Indonesian plane feared to have crashed with 62 aboard

Indonesian plane feared to have crashed with 62 aboard

WORLD
STANLEY WIDIANTO and TABITA DIELA A Sriwijaya Air plane with 62 people on board lost contact after taking off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta on a domestic flight and rescuers said suspected debris had been found in the sea off the city. The Boeing 737-500, en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan, disappeared from radar screens after taking off just after 2.30 p.m. (0730 GMT). Indonesian Transport Minister Budi Karya told a news conference that 62 people had been aboard, including 12 crew. Another official had said earlier there were 56 passengers and six crew. Bagus Puruhito, head of the country's…
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