A risky flying manoeuvre, a series of miscommunications, and ignoring her co-pilot’s warnings led to the Black Hawk helicopter crashing into an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River in the US – resulting in the deaths of 67 people aboard, including all three members of the chopper – according to a report by The…
A deadly blast on Sunday near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen’s capital was caused by a Houthi missile, not a U.S. airstrike, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. The health ministry of the Houthi-led government said earlier this week that an American airstrike had hit a densely populated neighborhood of…
President Trump made an unusually sharp appeal to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday, calling on him to stop his bombing campaign in Ukraine and agree to a peace deal after the deadliest attack on Kyiv in nearly a year. “Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are…
Russian forces launched a major missile and drone attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least nine people in the city, and injuring more than 60, the Ukrainian authorities said, the most deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital since last summer. Explosions could be heard throughout the night; clouds of brown smoke rose over the…
The latest warning came 10 days before the deadliest air crash in South Korea. A dozen officials gathered inside a room at Muan International Airport for a meeting of a bird strike prevention committee, where they discussed the number of aircraft being hit by birds, with data showing a jump in incidents over the past…
Russian missile strikes killed at least 21 people on Sunday in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, local officials said — the latest in a string of attacks on urban centers that have caused heavy civilian casualties. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said Russia attacked the center of Sumy with ballistic missiles when the streets…
The body lay wrapped in a maroon robe as a small cluster of mourners gathered last week to pay their respects. Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his dead colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase used to…
The pilots of Jeju Air Flight 2216 signaled three different plans for landing the stricken plane in the minutes before it crashed and killed 179 people in December, according to a partial transcript of their communication with air traffic controllers obtained by The New York Times. The transcript shows that the pilots reported a bird…
A deadly car accident occurred in coastal Georgia on Sunday morning in which five family members lost their lives, news agency Associated Press reported citing state authorities. The collision occurred on I-95 in McIntosh County around 6 am, when one vehicle collided with another traveling southbound. The crash led to one of the vehicles bursting…
Rivers rose and flooding worsened Sunday across the sodden U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people. Even as the rain moved out of some of the hardest hit areas in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, water levels crept up in some…