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2 Killed in helicopter accident in Vauxhall

Two people have been killed and nine injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane in central London in misty conditions. Police said it appeared the helicopter had hit the crane on top of The Tower, One St George Wharf at about 08:00 GMT. Sixty firefighters are at the scene near Wandsworth Road in South […]

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Small plane crashes

Three people were killed on late Monday evening when a small plane crashed near the Russian city of St. Petersburg, officials said on Tuesday.

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Small plane crashes near St. Petersburg

Three people were killed on late Monday evening when a small plane crashed near the Russian city of St. Petersburg, officials said on Tuesday. The accident happened at around 11.10 p.m. local time when the four-seat aircraft crashed into a river near the town of Kuksino, which is located in Leningrad Oblast, about 100 kilometers […]

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Concern over increase in local air fatalities in 2011

South African aviation history is littered with accidents and fatalities, with 325 people dying in air crashes in the country since 2004. The Tzaneen crash has already brought the number of air fatalities in the country to 30, surpassing last year’s total of 24. Phindiwe Gwebu, corporate communications and marketing manager for CAA, said all […]

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Accidents report in August 2011

Medevac King Air Goes Down in Alaska Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Atqasuk, Alaska, May 16, 2011–Icing is suspected in the crash of the turboprop twin, which went down while en route to Atqasuk Airport for an early-morning medevac pick-up. The King Air was substantially damaged when it crashed approximately seven miles west of the […]

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Skydiving instructor dies in Polk county

Friends and co-workers say it was a “terrible accident…and a miscalculation” that caused the death of a metro-area skydiving instructor. It happened Saturday morning at “The Sky Dive Farm” in Polk County. Friends say 41-year old Rodrigo Bianchini was trying to land by “skimming” the water with his feet but instead, he made his final […]

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Private plane crashes at Middleton Airport

A private plane with two people on board crashed after takeoff from the Middleton Airport Saturday, although neither person was injured, according to the Middleton Police Department. The pilot, Robert Burow, 73, of Oklahoma City, Okla., told police the plane was a total loss. Burow had landed at the airport to wait out severe weather […]