A pilot who survived a light plane crash on Christmas eve is “devastated” that his brother-in-law died in the accident, family say.
Matthew Green, 32, a NSW builder, was killed when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed into the side of a steep ravine in rugged bushland in the NSW Upper Hunter Valley on Wednesday.
His brother-in-law Scott Kennedy-Green, 38, piloted the single-engine Cessna and remains in a stable condition in a Sydney hospital.
Federal investigators said late Monday that an unusual rattling sound can be heard on the cockpit recorder of a Continental Airlines flight shortly before it veered off a runway after an aborted takeoff Saturday, injuring more than three dozen people.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said the jet’s pilots aborted takeoff at high speed in a bid to keep from hurtling off the side of a runway at Denver International Airport last Saturday. But the plane became uncontrollable anyway and within seconds slammed into a snowy ravine.
DENVER (AP) — Investigators took photos and measurements at the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plane veered off a runway and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow-covered ravine where it came to rest after its aborted takeoff Saturday at Denver International Airport.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators made preliminary reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder on Sunday, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said.
At least 28 people have been killed and 22 others are missing after an inter-island ferry capsized in northeastern Philippines.
The vessel, “Maejan,” carrying at least 96 passengers was approaching its destination in the town of Aparri in the Cagayan province after a seven-hour journey from Calayan islands when it overturned near the mouth of the Cagayan River on Sunday evening.
Initial reports said there were only 60 passengers onboard the ferry with 13 dead but these figures were later updated by the coast guard.
The death toll of a road accident in southern Egypt has risen to 57, the state MENA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a senior official.
Minya Governor Ahmed Diaaeddin said the bus carrying 70 passengers was traveling to Beni Sueif when the accident occurred.
On Sunday morning, the coach overturned some 200 km south of Cairo on the way from the southern city of Minya to Beni Sueif, said MENA.
The bus plunged into Al-Ibrahimia canal as the driver was trying to avoid a speedy truck coming from the opposition direction, Diaaeddin was quoted as saying.
Earlier reports said most of the victims drowned in the canal before rescuers can reach them.
More than 20 ambulances rushed to the spot to take part in rescue operations, said Diaaeddin, adding both drivers are being held pending investigations.
Earlier reports said at least 51 people were killed in the road accident, one of the deadliest tragedies in the country in recent years.
Traffic accidents are common in Egypt with an estimated annual death toll of some 6,000 people.
On Monday, a bus carrying Coptic students overturned about 30 km south of Cairo, killing at least 13 people and injuring 30 others.
On Dec. 1, at least 14 people were killed and 11 others injured when a lorry collided with two microbuses near the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, some 220 km northwest of Cairo.
The Egyptian traffic authorities implemented a new traffic code with tougher punishments for lawbreakers as of Aug. 1 in a bid to reduce road accidents.
Heavy rain has left hundreds of homes flooded in parts of Britain and is being blamed for a road accident which left a woman dead.
Dual carriageways in both Devon and Somerset were under up to 18in (46cm) of water, trees down and people trapped in their cars.
A Dorset Police spokesman said officers were investigating whether the weather was a factor in an accident on the A35 at Upton, Poole, which left a 22-year-old Poole woman dead.
French search divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Airbus plane that crashed in the Mediterranean killing all seven people on board.
The black box was to be dried out in Paris before data was retrieved, said Air New Zealand’s Ed Sims.
Four of the airline’s staff, one aviation official and two German pilots were on the plane. Only two bodies have been found off the Perpignan coast.
A flight attendant was forced to land a UK-bound jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had a mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, an official report disclosed today.
Another attendant suffered wrist injuries as the crew forcibly removed the co-pilot from the cockpit controls and restrained him in a seat in the cabin, the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) said.
As the Air Canada plane made its way over the Atlantic, the captain of the Boeing 767 from Toronto to Heathrow asked staff to seek out any trained pilots onboard.
HANGZHOU, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — Eight people have been confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province after another body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon, a local official said.
Four sniffer dogs and more than 400 rescuers are still searching for 13 others, whose hope to survive is very slim after being trapped for more than 72 hours, said Cai Qi, mayor of Hangzhou.
A 75-m section of a subway tunnel under construction collapsed Saturday afternoon. Besides those dead or missing, 24 others were injured.
Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest carrier, said two of its Boeing Co. 747 aircraft were damaged in a collision while being towing at a maintenance base.
“Both aircraft did sustain some damage and the extent of this is being assessed,” Qantas said in an e-mailed statement. “We have stood the individuals involved down pending a full investigation into this incident.”
