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Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil have arrived at a morgue and are working with forensics experts to identify the remains of the 62 people killed in the accident. Local authorities said the bodies of the pilot, Danilo Santos Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, were the first to be identified by experts. The Sao Paulo state government said in a statement on Saturday evening that the remains of all the victims had been recovered. There were 34 male and 28 female bodies in the wreckage, it said. The ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop operated by Brazilian airl...
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A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed entered a spiralling descent before crashing into a fiery wreck in Brazil's Sao Paulo state on Friday. The Brazilian airline VoePass said in a statement that the plane was carrying 58 passengers and 4 crew members. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commented during a press conference at an event that there were no survivors from the crash before calling for a minute of silence for the victims, adding that the situation was "very sad". Sao Paulo's fire department posted on social media that seven firefighting teams were deployed to help with the af...
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Saulos Chilima was buried in his village following a state funeral in Lilongwe. He died along with nine others in a plane crash last week. The plane was on a short flight from Lilongwe to the northern city of Mzuzu when it went missing last Monday morning. Malawi's President Chakwera has called for an independent investigation into the plane crash.
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Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest on Monday in his village south of the capital, following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash. Chilima and nine other people died in the plane crash last week in Malawi's northern region of Mzimba. The state funeral was held at the Bingu Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe on Sunday, where Chakwera and other dignitaries paid their final respects to the late vice president. In his address, Chakwera called for an independent investigation into the crash. "Our tears are about...
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Six passengers and six cabin crew were injured in turbulence on a flight from Qatar to Ireland on Sunday. The "Qatar Airways flight QR107 from Doha landed safely as scheduled at Dublin Airport shortly before 13.00," according to a statement by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). The aircraft "experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey", it detailed. Emergency services, including police and the fire department, met the aircraft upon landing. "The Dublin Airport team continues to provide full assistance on the ground to passengers and airline staff," added the DAA. It comes after a 73-yea...
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An unresponsive business plane that flew over Washington, D.C. on Sunday afternoon forced the U.S. military to send in fighter jets to intercept it. But according to officials, the plane crashed in Virginia. Police stated that first responders reached the plane crash site hours later in the Shenandoah Valley but no survivors were found. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the plane, which had four people on board, took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was supposed to land in Long Island, New York. Strangely, the plane turned around while flying over the island and flew south tow...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of an underwater airplane wreckage is viral with the claim that it is the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which has been been found without a human skeleton despite carrying 239 people on board. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to our fact-check, the viral image shows the wreckage of an abandoned Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane which reportedly sunk in 2019 to be colonised by marine life and attract divers. Furthermore, while there has been reported discovery of marine debris that was linked to the missing MH370 flight, t...
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By Sana Fazili "Planes go up. Planes go down. What planes don't do is vanish off the face of the earth." The recently released Netflix docu-series on the mystery of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared nine years ago tries to unravel the "biggest mystery" in aviation history. The documentary includes interviews of Malaysian officials, family members of passengers on board, journalists and conspiracy theorists. The conspiracy theorists take center-stage in the series as their narrative takes precedence over the official narrative. On March 8, 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 to...
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By Sk Badiruddin Several news outlets used an old image of a plane crash site from Kathmandu, Nepal to report about the flight crash of Yeti Airlines that happened in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15, 2023. BOOM found that the image used by the media outlets is originally from a wreckage site of an aircraft, owned by private firm Sita Air, that happened in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 28, 2012. According to reports, the death toll rose to 68 after a domestic flight owned by Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15. The flight was carrying 72 passengers from Nepal's capital Kathmandu....
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High temperatures in Europe and around the world have been affecting plenty of places, and climate change causing glacial melt in Switzerland allowed a 50-year old crashed plane to finally be recovered. According to Swiss authorities, the plane pieces recovered at a glacier in the Swiss Alps date back to a plane “which crashed at this location on June 30, 1968.” It was reported that the remains of three bodies, belonging to a teacher, medical officer and one of their sons from Zurich, were all found at the crash site too. Heavy melting has caused danger to hiking trails in these glaciers, as r...
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