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Investigation: Air India Pilots Cut Off Fuel to Engines

Investigators focus on cockpit actions after deadly midair shutdown 30 seconds into flight

(Newser) - Investigators probing last month's Air India crash say the jet's engines lost power just after takeoff because fuel was cut off from both engines—an action apparently triggered by the pilots, reports the New York Times . According to a preliminary report that comes 30 days after the crash, the...

2 Student Pilots Crash Into Each Other in Midair

Both pilots died in accident at pilot training school in Manitoba

(Newser) - Two student pilots died on Tuesday morning when their single-engine planes crashed in midair south of Steinbach, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Adam Penner, president of Harv's Air pilot training school, said the two were practicing takeoffs and landings in small Cessna planes, the AP reports. He said...

20-Year Search for Plane in Lake Michigan Ends

Northwest Orient crash in 1950 was the worst US air disaster ever at the time

(Newser) - A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board—the worst aviation disaster in US history at the time—after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology. The effort to find Northwest Orient Flight...

Turtle on Runway May Have Caused Deadly Crash

Pilot of vintage aircraft lifted wheel to avoid turtle at North Carolina airport before taking off again

(Newser) - A crash that killed two people at Sugar Valley Airport near Mocksville, North Carolina, earlier this month may have been caused by an effort to avoid a turtle. According to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the June 3 crash, a UNICOM operator advised a pilot preparing to...

Air India Plane's Engines Had 'Clean' Histories

Chair of airline makes first public comments

(Newser) - Air India has revealed that one of the engines on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed last week was new, installed in March, while the other had been serviced in 2023 and wasn't due for maintenance until December. Both engines had "clean" histories, according to Tata Sons...

Runway Lights Had Been Out for Years Before Plane Crash

NTSB issues preliminary report on May crash in San Diego

(Newser) - The runway lights that would have helped guide a small jet into a San Diego airport in foggy weather before the plane crashed, killing all six aboard, hadn't worked since 2022, investigators said. But it's unclear whether the pilot who was based at the airport knew the lights...

She Missed Air India Flight by 10 Minutes Due to Traffic

'This is totally a miracle for me,' says 28-year-old student Bhoomi Chauhan

(Newser) - Everyone understands the stress of getting stuck in traffic on the way to the airport, yet student Bhoomi Chauhan was especially irritated on Thursday when the gridlock in and around Ahmedabad caused her to miss her flight by just 10 minutes. That annoyance has since turned to gratitude, after Chauhan,...

Doomed Air India Plane Issued Mayday Call After Take-Off

Black box has been recovered from Air India crash site

(Newser) - The cause of the first-ever Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash is still unknown but investigators hope to have answers soon. Officials say the digital flight recorder, one of the Air India aircraft's two black boxes, was recovered from a rooftop near the crash site on Friday, the AP reports.
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Air India Survivor: 'I Don't Know How I Am Alive'

Ramesh Viswashkumar is the sole survivor of Air India Flight AI171

(Newser) - As investigators start trying to piece together what caused Thursday's devastating Air India crash in Ahmedabad that killed nearly all of the 242 on board and dozens more on the ground, focus is now turning to the lone person on the plane who survived the crash. Police say that...

Air India Says 241 Died on Plane, 1 Survived

Dozens more died on the ground in Ahmedabad crash

(Newser) - Air India has confirmed that there was only one survivor from Thursday's crash in Ahmedabad. "We regret to inform that, of the 242 aboard, there are 241 confirmed fatalities," the airline said in a post on X . "The sole survivor is being treated in a hospital....

Hospital Has One Survivor of Air India Crash

He will survive, says doctor of the passenger in seat 11A

(Newser) - Somehow, it appears that at least one passenger survived the crash of an Air India passenger jet on Thursday. India's home minister, Amit Shah, told reporters in Ahmedabad that he had met with the survivor in the hospital, reports the New York Times and the AP . The latter outlet...

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Air India Jet Hit Students Having Lunch

5 students at medical college reportedly among those killed; 242 were on the plane

(Newser) - No survivors are expected among the 242 people aboard the Air India jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, though officials have described dozens of injured people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into the dining facility of a local medical college where students were...

Air India Crash Is First for Boeing's Dreamliner

Company's 787 line had a clean record until Thursday

(Newser) - The passenger jet that went down in India on Thursday is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, and the crash is a first for this type of Boeing jet, reports the BBC . Boeing delivered its first Dreamliner model 14 years ago and boasted earlier this year of carrying 1 billion passengers over...

Air India Passenger Jet Crashes After Takeoff

More than 240 people were aboard

(Newser) - An Air India passenger plane bound for London with 242 people onboard crashed Thursday in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline and local media reported, per the AP and the BBC . There was no immediate word on survivors. The airline initially said there were 244 on board.
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Small Plane Crashes Off San Diego, 'Nose First'

6 missing as plane crashes into ocean soon after takeoff from San Diego airport

(Newser) - Authorities are investigating after a small plane crashed into the ocean 5 miles off the coast near San Diego with six people aboard, reports the AP . US Coast Guard officials said a debris field was discovered near Point Loma on Sunday afternoon and they began searching for the wreckage in...

Plane Still Missing Nearly 60 Years After Takeoff

Beechcraft plane carrying 3 men vanished over Michigan's Lake Superior in October 1968

(Newser) - Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan's Lake Superior found logs and rocks but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment. A team from Michigan Technological University returned last week by boat to get closer to 16 targets...

Pilot Lands in Choppy Waters Off Connecticut, Calls 911

'Those outcomes don't always come out as well as this did'

(Newser) - The pilot of a small plane that was about to crash managed to land it safely in the cool, choppy waters of Long Island Sound off Connecticut and call 911 to provide his precise coordinates before the aircraft sank, authorities said Monday. The Coast Guard pulled two people wearing lifejackets...

Runway Lights, Weather Alerts Were Out When Plane Crashed

Pilot trying to land in San Diego was given information from nearby air station instead

(Newser) - Runway lights and an airport weather alert system were not working when a small private plane crashed overnight in San Diego this week, killing all six people aboard, investigators said. So the pilot was trying in dense fog without the latest weather information for the airport where he was intending...

US-Boeing Deal Would Avoid Prosecution Over 737 Max

Many families of crash victims had sought a public trial

(Newser) - The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane manufacturer to avoid criminal prosecution over accusations that it misled US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday. Under the "...

Multiple Fatalities After Small Plane Crashes in San Diego

Aircraft went down in a military neighborhood, but no injuries on the ground are reported

(Newser) - Multiple people on board a private plane that crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood during foggy weather early Thursday are dead, but no one on the ground was injured, authorities said. The plane could hold eight to 10 people, but it's not yet known how many were...

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