KYIV — Russia has not provided evidence that Ukrainian prisoners of war were aboard a military plane that was downed Wednesday, Ukrainian officials told relatives of captured soldiers Friday, as the warring countries continued to trade blame over the murky incident. Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, met Friday with relatives … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Friday to make public the findings of Moscow’s investigation into the crash of a transport plane that he alleged Kyiv’s forces shot down despite having been informed that Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board. In his first public remarks on Wednesday’s crash, Putin repeated previous comments by Russian officials … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — Russia and Ukraine traded blame and pushed dueling narratives Thursday over the downing of a Russian military plane, which Moscow said was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were about to be exchanged and returned home to their families. Everyone aboard was killed, Russia … Read more
FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories — The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories was six, authorities said Wednesday. The plane was carrying employees from the Rio Tinto mining company. The Northwest Territories coroner’s office said that four passengers and two crew members from Northwestern Air Lease were killed in Tuesday’s crash, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — A Russian military plane crashed on Wednesday in the western Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, killing 74 people on board, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that also accused Ukraine of shooting down the aircraft. The ministry said the plane, … Read more
Photo: Carlos Yudica (Shutterstock) Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy’s shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since … Read more
Throughout the last year or so, flight etiquette has been hotly debated — especially when it comes to assigned seating and passengers who request a last-minute swap. Well, the flames were stoked once again when a first-hand experience was recounted on Reddit by user u/michaeldonelly, who says they were on a long flight (over five … Read more
A homebuilt aircraft crashed into the ocean just south of San Francisco on Sunday. Four people were reportedly on board the flight when it went down. The retired dentist who built the plane called the incident “traumatic.” A small homebuilt aircraft crashed off the coast of California on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. Federal investigators … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said they believe four people were … Read more
TOKYO — A Korean Air plane carrying 289 people hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft while taxiing to a runway at northern Japan’s New Chitose Airport but caused no fire or injuries Tuesday, a local fire department said. The incident happened only two weeks after a high profile collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and … Read more