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Drones, thermal scanners scour China Eastern crash site

Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)

Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine ...

Black box of crashed China Eastern jet recovered

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

The cause of the disaster has mystified aviation authorities who have scoured rugged terrain for clues, finding no survivors from what is almost certain to be C...

Recovery of crashed China Eastern jet hampered by heavy rain

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Three days on from Monday's crash and there are no signs of survivors, yet officials have refrained from declaring all of the passengers dead, in what is almost...

Chinese recovery teams comb debris of crashed passenger jet

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Hopes of finding any survivors had all but vanished nearly a day after the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet nosedived into the mountain -- likely making it China's ...

Plane carrying 132 crashes in China, Xi orders probe

Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)

There was no immediate confirmation of the number of casualties, but the disaster prompted an unusually swift public reaction from President Xi Jinping who said...

Bodies of US marines found after Norway military crash

Mar 20, 2022 (AFP)

A Norwegian Sea King rescue helicopter found the bodies at the accident site south of Bodo in northern Norway where their V-22B Osprey aircraft belonging to the...

US military plane crashes in Norway: officials

Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)

The US Osprey aircraft "was reported missing at 18:26 (1726 GMT) south of Bodo" in northern Norway in bad weather, the regional emergency services (HRS) said in...

Four US troops killed in military plane crash in Norway

Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)

The four were taking part in the Cold Response military exercises involving 30,000 troops from NATO and partner countries. About 200 planes and some 50 ships ar...

US military plane believed crashed in Norway: rescuers

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

The US Osprey aircraft "was reported missing at 18:26 (1726 GMT) south of Bodo" in northern Norway in bad weather, the regional emergency services (HRS) said in...

USAF and Beta Technologies make history with first airman flight of an electric aircraft

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

This milestone, which took place at BETA's Plattsburgh, New York, hangar and testing facility-just 35 miles from its South Burlington, Vermont headquarters-is t...

British pilot killed in trainer jet crash in Italy

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

The M-346 jet, intended for military pilot training, took off from Leonardo's site near Varese at 11:00 am (1000 GMT), before losing contact 35 minutes later. T...

US to sell F-15s to Egypt: general

Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)

"In the case of Egypt, I think we have good news, in that we are going to provide them with F-15s, which was a long, hard slog," Central Command head General Fr...

Germany to buy F-35 fighter jets in military spending spree

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

The F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin would replace Germany's decades-old Tornado fleet, according to media reports confirmed by the source. Tornados are the on...

Shaken by Ukraine war, Germany to buy dozens of US stealth jets

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

Berlin intends to buy 35 F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin to replace Germany's decades-old Tornado fleet, as well as purchasing an additional 15 Eurofighter je...

AFRL program advances unmanned air system used for training US fighter pilots

Mar 13, 2022 (SPX)

Under the Bandit program, Blue Force Technologies, a small aerospace and defense company based in North Carolina, will mature a high-performance unmanned air ve...

Private jets soar past global pandemic, oil price woes

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

The appeal of private jets has taken off since the start of the pandemic, amid fear of catching Covid-19 and as widespread cancellations and stringent measures ...

Worried of 'high risk,' US nixes Polish jet offer to Ukraine

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

The scheme -- which the United States said it was actively studying before nixing it over concerns the Kremlin could interpret it as a military escalation -- ha...

Cathay Pacific slashes loss to $703 mn from $2.76 bn in 2020

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

Chairman Patrick Healy said the company "continued to face serious challenges" and the overall loss for the year was "substantial" despite a considerable improv...

US rejects Poland offer of jets for Ukraine as not 'tenable'

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

Warsaw caught US officials off guard with the offer to deliver the Soviet-era planes to the US base in Ramstein, Germany. Under the proposed scheme, those jets ...

Eight dead in Romania chopper, fighter jet crashes

Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)

The EU member is on the front line to strengthen NATO's eastern flank as Russia is invading neighbouring Ukraine and has seen international reinforcements arriv...