Small plane catches fire after crash-landing on California freeway
The two people aboard were unhurt, authorities said, and no injuries were reported on the ground.
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The two people aboard were unhurt, authorities said, and no injuries were reported on the ground.
A plane crash involving two general aviation aircrafts at North Las Vegas Airport resulted in multiple fatalities, the Clark County Department of Aviation confirmed.
People in Greece watched in awe as a burning Ukrainian cargo plane fell from the sky and exploded near the city of Kavala on Saturday. The plane, with eight on board, was carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh when it crashed into agricultural fields. Everyone on board was Ukrainian.
Local residents reported seeing a fireball and hearing explosions for two hours after the crash.
Five Marines were killed when an MV-22 Osprey went down in the Imperial County desert.
At least four U.S. Marines were killed during an aircraft crash in the desert near Glamis, California, on Wednesday. The MV-22 Osprey carried five service members on board.
Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal have recovered the bodies of 22 people who were aboard a plane that crashed Sunday.
A plane crash in Nepal killed at least 21 people on their way to a popular pilgrimage site.
A preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the China Eastern plane crash in March was intentional. All 132 people on board were killed. Andrew Tangel, an aviation reporter who co-authored the Wall Street Journal piece about the report, joins Elaine Quijano on CBS News.
China Eastern flight MU5375 inexplicably plunged from an altitude of 29,000 feet into a mountainside in March.
The pilots are required to immediately surrender their licenses.
A fire was likely sparked by a leak from the co-pilot's oxygen mask and the combustion of a cigarette smoked by the pilot or co-pilot, according to the 134-page document.
The other pilot regained control of the second plane and landed safely.
A DHL cargo plane slid out of control and crashed on the runway of Juan Santa Maria Airport in Costa Rica on Thursday.
The accident temporarily caused operations to shut down at the country's biggest airport, impacting hundreds of flights.
Both black boxes from the China Eastern Airlines 737 that crashed last month, killing all 132 on board, are with NTSB experts in Washington.
The Navy says the Norfolk, Va.-based plane was conducting routine flight operations off the Virginia/Maryland border, near Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down.
Investigators hope it can help them figure out why the Boeing 737-800 suddenly dove and crashed into a mountain. But they say it's severely damaged.
It's still unclear what may have caused a passenger jet to plunge into a mountainside and burst into flames in China. The plane was carrying 132 people, and there are no signs of survivors.
State media reported all Boeing 737-800s in China Eastern's fleet were ordered grounded, an unusual move when there is no evidence the plane model is flawed.
A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed in southern China on Monday. As of Tuesday, no survivors had been found. Seth Doane has the latest on the crash investigation.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 came down in a steep dive in a rural area near the city of Wuzhou, causing a "mountain fire" and an unknown number of deaths.
A China Eastern passenger jet crashed in a mountainous area of southern China on Monday, authorities said. The Boeing 737 was carrying 132 people, and the number of casualties is not yet known. CBS News transportation safety analyst and former NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt joins Anne-Marie Greene and Mola Lenghi with the latest on what investigators will be looking for.
The Coast Guard is searching the ocean off the coast of North Carolina after a small plane carrying eight people crashed on Sunday.
At least one body has been found off, officials said Monday.