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Smoke billows from a British-made BAe 146 cargo plane that caught fire while being unloaded at the airport in Wamena, in Indonesia's Papua province, on May 8, 2013. An official said that the plane caught fire after an oil drum fell from the aircraft and somehow sparked the fire.
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Members of a rescue team watch as divers prepare to retrieve the black box from a partially submerged Lion Air Boeing 737 on April 15, 2013, two days after it crashed while trying to land at Bali's international airport near Denpasar. The pilot and co-pilot of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport have passed initial drug tests, an official said on April 15, as investigators probe the causes of the accident that left dozens injured but no fatalities.
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All 108 passengers and crew members survived when the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet, operated by Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, undershot the main airport runway in Bali, Indonesia and belly-flopped in water on Saturday.
Officials stress it was too early to say what caused the incident, which is being investigated by Indonesian authorities with the assistance of U.S. crash investigators and Boeing. Continue reading.
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An aircraft sits on its nose after making an emergency landing next to a power distribution box and a house in Haselau, Germany, on April 2. Technical problems are believed to be responsible for forcing the plane to make the emergency landing. Both of the people in the aircraft were only slightly injured.
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Rescuers work where a plane skidded off the runway at Vnukovo airport in Moscow on Saturday, Dec. 29. The Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Moscow-based Red Wings broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people.
Another witness described pulling four people from the wreckage when he arrived at the scene before emergency service workers. "We could not get the pilot out of the cockpit but we saw a lot of blood," he told the TV station Rossiya-24.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney laughs as he returns to the stage with his wife Ann as his running mate Paul Ryan waits for them at a Republican National Convention farewell victory rally at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on Friday.
After accepting the Republican party's nomination for president, Mitt Romney celebrated and showed off his new wings - a new campaign plane. Painted along the side of the plane is his campaign's motto, 'Believe in America,' and website, along with his "R" logo on the tail. The customized jet is a McDonnell-Douglas 83. Apparently, his running mate, Paul Ryan, has a similar plane, a DC-93.
His first trip aboard the the aircraft is to New Orleans where he will view damage caused by Hurricane Isaac.
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Mitt Romney is joined by vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan and their wives at a campaign rally in front of their new campaign plane in Lakeland, Florida on Friday.
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Secret Service agents guard the campaign bus of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during an RNC Farewell Victory rally on Friday in Lakeland, Florida.
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Republicans gather in Tampa, Florida to officially nominate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, as the party's candidates for the 2012 presidential election.
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The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse takes off on May 24, in Payerne on its first attempted intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco. Solar Impulse, piloted by Andre Borschberg, is expected to land in Madrid for a stopover before heading to Morocco without using a drop of fuel. Bertrand Piccard will pilot the second leg on to Rabat, scheduled to leave Madrid on May 28 at the earliest.
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The president of the Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse project, Bertrand Piccard, helps pilot Andre Borschberg prepare for takeoff on May 24, in Payerne on its first attempted intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco.
AP reports -- An experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight Thursday, aiming to reach North Africa next week.
Pilot Andre Borschberg planned to take the jumbo jet-size Solar Impulse plane on its first leg to Madrid, Spain, by Friday. His colleague Bertrand Piccard will take the helm of the aircraft for the second stretch of its 1,554-mile journey to the Moroccan capital Rabat.
Fog on the runway at its home base in Payerne, Switzerland, delayed the take off by two hours, demonstrating how susceptible the prototype single-seater aircraft is to adverse weather.
"We can't fly into clouds because it was not designed for that," Borschberg said as he piloted the lumbering plane with its 207-foot wingspan toward the eastern French city of Lyon at a cruising speed of just 43.5 miles an hour.
Before landing in Madrid in the early hours of Friday, Borschberg will face other challenges, including having to overfly the Pyrenees, the mountains that separate France and Spain.
Just in case things go disastrously wrong, Borschberg has a parachute inside his tiny cabin that he hopes never to use. "When you take an umbrella it never rains," he joked in a satellite call with The Associated Press.
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The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse prepares for takeoff on May 24, in Payerne on its first attempted intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco.
The Solar Impulse will fly from Switzerland to Morocco as the pilot and crew prepare for a trip around the world in 2014. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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The discovery of the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk in the Sahara Desert was described by one military historian as "the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb."
A remarkably well-preserved fighter plane that crashed in the Sahara Desert during World War II has been found 70 years later, shedding new light on the pilot's struggle to survive.
The American-made Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk was discovered by a Polish oil worker, Jakub Perka, who was exploring the desert in Egypt, The Telegraph newspaper reported. It was about 200 miles from the nearest town.
It is believed that the pilot, Dennis Copping, 24, ran into trouble while flying in 1942 but still managed to land the plane on the sands, the paper said.
Military historian Andy Saunders said that the British flight sergeant "must have survived the crash" because a photograph of the plane showed a parachute had been put up on the side of the plane, apparently as a form of shelter, The Telegraph reported.
"The radio and batteries were out of the plane, and it looks like he tried to get it working. If he died at the side of the plane, his remains would have been found," Saunders added. "Once he had crashed there, nobody was going to come and get him. It is more likely he tried to walk out of the desert but ended up walking to his death. It is too hideous to contemplate."
He said the discovery was "the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb."
Air enthusiasts excited
The Vintage Wings of Canada website speculated that the plane had a mechanical problem, ran out of fuel or that the pilot simply got lost.
The website said there seemed to be a growing consensus that the plane's serial number was ET 574, based on what could be made out from photographs. If this is confirmed, the website said it was possible that Canadian flying ace James "Stocky" Edwards had previously flown the fighter.
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The plane's cockpit is in remarkable though dusty condition.
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"To say we, at Vintage Wings, are excited by this find is an understatement," the website said.
It expressed concern the plane had been "seriously vandalized -- a travesty the whole aviation world seems unable to stop."
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Michael Creane of the Royal Air Force Museum in London, U.K., told NBC News that it was "incredible" the plane had not been submerged by the shifting sands of the desert.
He said the museum was "hell-bent" on bringing the aircraft to the facility, although he said there were "lots of hoops to jump through."
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Indonesian soldiers, part of a rescue team, take a break as they search for the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi aircraft near Bogor May 10. A rescue team found no survivors but several bodies on Thursday when it arrived at the wreckage of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that crashed into Mount Salak during an exhibition flight with 45 people on board.
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Indonesian soldiers consult a map before climbing Salak Mount to find the crash site of Russian-made plane Sukhoi Superjet 100, in Cipelang, Bogor, Indonesia, on May 10. Rescuers on 10 May found bodies near the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed into an Indonesian mountain with 47 people on board. 'Rescue workers have reached the crash site and found the wreckage and bodies of victims,' said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency. Air Vice Marshal Daryatmo, the national search-and-rescue chief, said the bodies would be airlifted on Friday because the terrain made it difficult to transport them by land. The Sukhoi Superjet-100 appeared to have crashed into Mount Salak at a high speed from 6,000 feet and disintegrated, Prakoso said.
Reuters reports -- A rescue team found several bodies but no survivors on Thursday in the wreckage of a Russian plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia during an exhibition flight with 45 people on board.
Russia said it would take part in the investigation of the crash of its first all-new passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union, a Superjet 100 aircraft that went missing on Wednesday about 40 miles south of Jakarta.
It was carrying Indonesians including journalists and businessmen, eight Russians including embassy officials, pilots and technicians, as well as two Italians, one French citizen and one American, said Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk, the head of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft.
"We haven't found survivors," Gagah Prakoso, spokesman of the search and rescue team, told Indonesia's Metro TV.
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Relatives of missing passengers of the ill-fated Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 comfort each other at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta on May 10. All of the dozens aboard a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet flying on a sales promotion trip in Indonesia were killed when the plane slammed into a mountain, officials said on May 10.
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Indonesian mother Muawana sits with her daughter Olivia holding a photograph of her missing husband Steven Kamagi, taken aboard the ill fated Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 before takeoff, as they wait for rescue operation updates at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta on May 10. All of the dozens aboard a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet flying on a sales promotion trip in Indonesia were killed when the plane slammed into a mountain, officials said on May 10.
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People wave as the car of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Law and Justice party and twin brother of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, leaves the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10 during a ceremony for the second anniversary of the Smolensk air crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
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A woman holds a flag with a picture of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, at the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10 during a ceremony for the second anniversary of the Smolensk plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
Today marks the second anniversary of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others near Smolensk, Russia. It was a tragedy for the country, the worst national disaster since World War II. For a second year, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president and leader of Poland's Law and Justice party, boycotted the state ceremonies to voice his disapproval of the findings in the Russian investigation, which state pilot error as the cause of the crash.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, lays a wreath at a monument in Powazki, Warsaw, Poland for the victims of the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. Today marks the second anniversary of the Polish presidential plane crash that killed Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 others on 10 April 2010.
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A mass is held to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the presidential plane crash, in St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw, Poland, April 10. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 other Poles died April 10, 2010 when the Polish presidential plane crashed while trying to land in Smolensk, Russia.
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A United Shuttle Air Express passenger plane with hydraulic problems made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday evening, forcing the temporary closure of the airport. No injuries were reported.
The Star-Ledger's Tomas Dinges reports:
As a passenger plane with hydraulic problems was getting ready to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday evening, passengers thought they were going to die.
"We were saying our prayers because we just thought it was the end," said Steve Parowski, a passenger from Franklin Lakes. "I sent a text to my sons letting them know that I love them, and I hope everything works out."
Parowski was among the 71 people aboard the United Shuttle Air Express traveling from Atlanta to Newark — a flight that was uneventful until the commuter jet was preparing for landing and its front landing gear failed to deploy, authorities said. Parowski said as soon as he got off the plane and he knew he was fine, he called his sons on the phone and told them "I landed and I'm alive."
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An aircraft of the Japan Coast Guard with a hole in its nose after an albatross crashed into the patrol plane flying over the East China Sea near Ishigaki island in Okinawa prefecture on Jan. 18, 2012.
A Japanese coast guard plane was able to land after a collision with an albatross Wednesday, Agence France Presse reports. The Bombardier Dash 8 was on a patrol flight from Naha, on the Pacific island of Okinawa, to Ishigaki, near Taiwan, when the bird strike happened at an altitude of 300 meters.
The dead bird was stuck in the nose of the aircraft but none of the nine crew members was injured, according to a report in The Japan Times.
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Rescuers work near an overturned Russian-made Tupolev 134 passenger jet at the airfield outside Osh, Kyrgyzstan on Dec. 28. The packed TU-134 flipped over and caught fire on landing in the southern Kyrgyz city today injuring at least six people, officials and witnesses said.
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Rescuers work near an overturned Russian-made Tupolev 134 passenger jet at the airfield outside Osh on Dec. 28. The packed TU-134 flipped over and caught fire on landing in the southern Kyrgyz city today injuring at least six people, officials and witnesses said.
Amazing that all the passengers survived.
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The Kyrgyz government says that 31 people have been injured in the crash-landing of a passenger jet.
Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry said the Soviet-built Tu-134 jet was carrying 95 passengers and six crew when it crash-landed in deep fog Wednesday at the airport of the southern city of Osh.
Emergency Situations Minister Kubatbek Boronov said the plane flying from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek was damaged when it made a rough landing in Osh. He didn't elaborate, but eyewitnesses said the jet rolled off the runway, broke its wing, overturned and caught fire.
Boronov said that 17 of the 31 injured were hospitalized.
The Tu-134 is a two-engine jet that has remained in service with many post-Soviet carriers.
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