Page 12 - Plane Crash

20 bodies recovered from Tara Air plane crash site in Nepal's Mustang

Rescuers on Monday recovered 20 bodies from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board

Nepal plane crash: All 22 onboard, including 4 Indians, found dead

No survivors have been found from the Tara Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday, according to Nepalese media reports

Nepal Army physically locates plane crash site; casualties remain unclear

The fate of 22 people, including four members of an Indian family, on board the Nepalese airlines plane remained unclear as bad weather made it difficult to locate the aircraft that went missing

Mobile phone signals from crashed Nepalese plane's pilot may provide clues

The missing plane could possibly be located after Nepal Telecom tracked down the cellphone of the airplane's pilot Captain Prabhakar Ghimire through the Global Positioning System network

Fate of 22 passengers unclear as rescuers locate Nepal plane wreckage

The fate of four members of an Indian family and 18 others on board a small plane of a Nepalese airlines remained unclear after the aircraft crashed on minutes after taking off from Pokhara

China Eastern Airlines resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after crash

China Eastern flight MU5843, operated by a three-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft, took off from the southwestern city of Kunming at 09:58 am local time on Sunday and landed at Chengdu

US investigators head to China to probe plane crash that killed 132 people

A team of US investigators have departed for China to probe the causes of an airliner crash that killed all 132 people on a Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern Airlines on March 21

China done with most airline crash search, working on preliminary report

China has completed the main search and rescue work at site of a China Eastern Airlines crash that killed 132 people last week and plans to complete a preliminary report

China finds second black box of crashed Boeing plane: State media

In a late night news conference on Saturday, officials announced that all of the people onboard, including nine crew members, have been confirmed dead

No explosive components found at China plane crash site: Officials

No components of either common inorganic or organic explosives were present at the crash site of a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane, an official told a press briefing

China says no trace of explosives found in jet crash samples

Some 24,000 pieces of wreckage have been retrieved, officials said, and remains of 120 people have been identified

Search teams find second black box of crashed Chinese passenger plane

The second black box, believed to be the flight data recorder of the crashed Chinese passenger plane was found by the search team, official media here reported on Friday. The second black box has been located, state-run China Daily reported. The first black box stated to be the cockpit voice recorder, (CVR) which was recovered earlier is being decoded at a laboratory in Beijing and the data downloading and analysis work is underway, officials said. The second black box located in the back of the plane was stated to be the flight data recorder (FDR). The flight data recorder stores information about speed, altitude and direction, as well as pilot actions and performance of important systems. The data of the Cockpit Voice Recorder was awaited keenly as China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 sharply dropped from an altitude of 29,100 feet to 9,075 feet in just two minutes and 15 seconds, crashing into a mountainous area. Zhu Tao, head of the aviation safety office of the Civil Aviatio

Here's everything we know about the China plane crash so far

Shocking footage captured by a mining company's surveillance camera appeared to show the flight's final chilling seconds

Searchers find wing, engine parts from China eastern plane crash

Hundreds of searchers wearing rubber boots and full rain gear headed into muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday to try to find the second black box from a China Eastern passenger jet

Recovered black box of crashed Chinese plane can be cockpit voice recorder

The black box recovered from the China Eastern Airlines passenger plane that crashed into a mountain in Guangxi region earlier this week, is believed to be the cockpit voice recorder

One of two black boxes from crashed China plane found

Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator

Chinese jet nearly hit speed of sound in final moments before crash

Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and damage a plane's data and voice recorders that are designed to withstand most crashes

China says one of two black boxes from China Eastern plane crash found

The search for the black boxes is one of the key tasks required by the investigation team

Rough terrain, rain hampering search at site of China plane crash

Rough terrain and rainfall were hampering the search for clues into why a China Eastern plane inexplicably fell from the sky and crashed into a wooded mountainside, presumably killing all on board

Chinese air travel faces mass cancellations after plane crash: Report

The cancellations come after a Boeing 737-800 NG operated by China Eastern Airlines nosedived out of the sky and crashed in Guangxi province on Monday afternoon