plane crashes

Illustrative: A Marine F-18 "Super Hornet" taxies as a AH-1 Cobra helicopter lands at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland Saturday, June 16, 2012 as part of Marine Week in the city. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

December 6, 2018, 1:31 am

Two US Marine planes crash while refueling off Japan

Search and rescue efforts underway for seven missing crew members after F-18 collides with C-130 tanker

By AFP

Family members of the crashed Indonesian Lion Air JT-610 react at Pangkal Pinang airport, in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018. (HADI SUTRISNO / AFP)

October 29, 2018, 3:28 pm

Indonesia says survivors unlikely after passenger plane crashes into sea

Soldiers, police and fishermen involved in search that has recovered aircraft debris and personal belongings of the 189 passengers on board, said to include a child and two babies

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and STEPHEN WRIGHT

October 29, 2018, 8:17 am

Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 189 on board

Divers searching for wreckage of the jet that vanished from radar minutes after takeoff from Jakarta

By Stephan Wright and Niniek Karmini

Illustrative: In this Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

September 28, 2018, 9:22 pm

US F-35 destroyed in apparent first-ever crash for the stealth jet

Marine Corps pilot ejects unharmed in North Carolina training accident; cause of crash not clear; Israel operates 12 of the advanced planes

By AFP and TOI staff

This photo provided by Blue Flag Construction shows an Air Niugini plane floating in Pacific lagoon after its crash-landing in Pacific lagoon near Chuuk Airport in Weno, Federated States of Micronesia, September 28, 2018. (Blue Flag Construction via AP)

September 28, 2018, 3:27 pm

Everybody on plane survives crash landing in Pacific lagoon

Papua New Guinea national airline plane with 35 passengers and 12 crew goes off runway in Micronesia’s Chuuk Island

By Nick Perry

Wreckage from the plane that crashed on September 15, 2018 near Boston, killing Michael Graver and Jodi Cohen. (Screen capture: NBC New York)

September 17, 2018, 6:55 pm

New York couple die in crash of small plane near Boston

Michael Graver, 65, a cardiac surgeon, and Jodi Cohen, 52, a real estate agent, were on their way to a lunch date

By JTA

Illustrative photo: US-made F-4 Phantom fighter jets from the Iranian air force. (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)

August 26, 2018, 5:17 pm

Iranian pilot killed in F-5 fighter jet crash

US-made training aircraft crashes during attempted landing in Dezful, near Iraqi border; co-pilot survives

By AFP and TOI staff

Accident investigators and rescue personnel gather around the wreckage of a Junkers JU52 aircraft at Flims on August 5, 2018, after the airplane crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-meter (10,000-foot) peak in eastern Switzerland on August 4. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)

August 5, 2018, 5:10 pm

Twenty dead in WWII vintage plane crash in Switzerland

11 men and 9 women, including Austrian couple and their son, perish as 1939 Junker JU52 slams into mountainside

By AFP

Emergency and rescue personnel are pictured while working at the site of the accident, after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on May 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

May 19, 2018, 6:27 am

More than 100 killed in Cuba airliner crash

Three women pulled from wreckage in critical condition; 40-year-old Boeing 737 hit ground shortly after takeoff

By Alexandre GROSBOIS

Picture taken at the scene of the accident after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on May 18, 2018. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)

May 18, 2018, 9:23 pm

Dozens feared dead as airliner with 104 on board crashes on takeoff from Havana

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel says there are a ‘high number’ of casualties after visiting the scene of the Boeing 737 accident

By AFP

Rabbi David Ellenson is serving as HUC interim president. (Courtesy of HUC via JTA)

May 15, 2018, 10:11 am

Hebrew Union College appoints Rabbi David Ellenson as interim president

Scholar will head Reform movement campuses in New York, Jerusalem, Cincinnati and Los Angeles following plane crash death of predecessor Panken

By JTA

An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv on August 23, 2017 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

May 8, 2018, 2:13 am

Probe into dangerous error by El Al pilot who entered wrong aircraft weight

Company insists there was ‘no danger to passengers’ after jet’s computer was told the plane was 40 tons lighter than it actually was

By TOI staff

Russian servicemen prepare a Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jet before a departure for a mission at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province, Syria, on December 16, 2015. (AFP/Paul Gypteau)

May 3, 2018, 2:55 pm

Russian fighter jet crashes off Syria, both pilots killed

Moscow said bird possibly ‘fell into engine’ of Su-30SM plane, causing it to crash shortly after takeoff

By AFP

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (James Lavine via AP)

May 3, 2018, 5:07 am

Nine people were aboard US military plane destroyed in fiery crash

Video footage shows flight from Puerto Rico Air National Guard airport falling from the sky then exploding in a fireball

By AFP

Rescuers are seen around the wreckage of an Algerian plane which crashed near the Boufarik airbase from where the plane had taken off on April 11, 2018. The military plane crashed and caught fire killing 257 people, mostly army personnel and members of their families, officials said (Ryad Kramdi/AFP Photo)

April 11, 2018, 3:49 pm

Algerian military plane crashes in field, killing 257 on board

Aircraft carrying army personnel and their families comes down shortly after takeoff from base southwest of Algiers

By Agencies