An Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage. The required inspections will affect about 171 planes worldwide.
An Australian teenager has described how her family managed to escape from the second last row of a Japan Airlines plane,after it burst into flames on the runway.
Air traffic control transcripts suggest the smaller of the two aircraft was asked to hold short of the runway before it collided with the larger JAL passenger jet.
To call the swift evacuation of this burning plane miraculous diminishes the significance of a very human achievement.
A former naval officer involved in the initial hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has called for an investigation into an Australian man’s claims he pulled up a large piece of a commercial plane at sea.
“There’s a strong possibility there was a human error,” Hiroyuki Kobayashi,a former pilot and aviation analyst,said of the fiery collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard plane.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed a dozen Australians were among 379 passengers and crew who survived the fiery crash landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
Police hope video cameras filming inside the ex-military plane when it crashed will help piece together the moments before the mid-air collision that killed two people.
Pilot Stephen Gale and cameraman James Rose went missing when the plane they were flying in crashed into Port Phillip Bay near Mount Martha on Sunday.
Police are working to remove a large part of the former military jet from the water in Mornington after the plane carrying a pilot and cameraman filming a documentary about flying crashed on Sunday.
The men have described how the plane,with a full tank of fuel,had engine trouble off the Queensland coast and was unable to make it back to land.