Libya: US Fighter Jet Crash Lands in Field Near Benghazi
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A US warplane has crash landed in a Libyan field in the area around Benghazi, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

The pilot of the F-15E fighter jet was rescued by rebel soldiers after ejecting from the aircraft, it is understood. Another crew member is also thought to have ejected.

The crashed plane was discovered by a Telegraph journalist reporting in and around Benghazi, the rebel-held city.

It is thought the F-15E fighter jet came to ground after suffering a mechanical failure.

The US military confirmed that one of its jets had crash landed. Vince Crawley, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Africa Command, said that one crewman had been recovered and one was "in process of recovery".

Crawley said the crash occurred "overnight." He declined to give the location of the crash and also would not say how the rescued crewman was picked up.

This is the first coalition aircraft to have crash landed during the Libyan conflict following the third night of air strikes. » | Rob Crilly, and Laura Roberts | Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Britons Feared Dead in Tripoli Plane Crash
TIMES ONLINE: More than 100 people were killed when a plane crashed on landing at Tripoli airport in Libya this morning. Seven on board were bound for London and only an 8-year-old Dutch boy survived.

The Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 was carrying 93 passengers, reportedly including Britons and South Africans, as well as 11 Libyan crew. The flight left Johannesburg on Tuesday night and crashed at 6am local time. “It exploded on landing and totally disintegrated,” a security official said.

A Foreign & Commonwealth Office spokesman told The Times that a team from the embassy had gone to Tripoli airport to investigate unconfirmed reports of Britons killed in the crash. "Consular staff in Tripoli are urgently seeking further details," he said.

All passengers and crew were killed apart from the boy. The child was said to be "in a good condition" in a local hospital but was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. >>> Tristan McConnell and Joanna Sugden | Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Polish President’s Plane Crashes in Russia; 87 Dead
THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOSCOW — A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife crashed in western Russia on Saturday morning, and there were no survivors, according to Russian media.

Officials did not immediately have information on the identities of the dead.

A spokeswoman for the emergency management ministry said on Russian television that the plane, a Tupolev 154, crashed as it was landing in Smolensk, and 87 people on board had died. >>> Ellen Barry and Clifford J. Levy | Saturday, April 10, 2010

Polish President Feared Dead in Plane Crash
THE TELEGRAPH: The Polish president's plane has crashed as it approached a Russian airport, killing 130 people.

Lech Kaczynski became the president of Poland in December 2005. Photo: The Telegraph
President Lech Kaczynski was travelling with his wife from Warsaw to Smolensk airport, 220 miles southwest of Moscow.

Sergei Antufiev, the regional governor of the Smolensk, said that everyone on board had been killed.

"It clipped the tops of the trees, crashed down and broke into pieces," Mr Antufiev, told Russia-24 television news network by telephone. "There were no survivors." Polish state news agency PAP also said there were no survivors. >>> | Saturday, April 10, 2010

Polish President Killed in Air Crash Near Russia's Smolensk

RUSSIA TODAY: Polish president killed in air crash near Russia's Smolensk: More than 80 people have died after a Polish presidential TU-154 plane crashed near an airport outside Smolensk in western Russia. The Polish president and his wife were killed in the crash. >>> | Saturday, April 10. 2010

LE FIGARO: Le président polonais tué dans le crash de son avion : L'appareil, qui transportait notamment Lech Kaczynski et plusieurs hauts responsables, aurait accroché des arbres au moment de son atterrissage à Smolensk dans l'ouest de la Russie. Il n'y aurait aucun survivant, selon les autorités russes, qui suspectent une erreur du pilote. >>> Par lefigaro.fr | Samedi 10 Avril 2010



NZZ ONLINE: Flugzeug mit polnischem Präsidenten abgestürzt: Maschine zerschellt bei Landeanflug auf Smolensk am Boden >>> sda/afp/Reuters/dpa | Samstag, 10. April 2010

Flugzeugabsturz: Mit Lech Kaczynski stirbt die "Elite der Nation"
WELT ONLINE: Dutzende Spitzenpolitiker und führende Vertreter von Kirche und Militär sind mit Polens Staatspräsident Lech Kaczynski in den Tod gestürzt. Vorübergehend übernimmt Parlamentspräsident Bronislaw Komorowski die Geschäfte des Staatsoberhaupts. Er soll innerhalb von 14 Tagen über vorgezogene Präsidentenwahlen entscheiden.

Polens Staatspräsident Lech Kaczynski und seine Ehefrau Maria sind bei einem Flugzeugabsturz im russischen Smolensk ums Leben gekommen. Bild: Welt Online
Polen in der Schockstarre: Nach dem Tod von Staatspräsident Lech Kaczynski versammelten sich am Samstag vor dem Präsidentenpalast in Warschau spontan Hunderte von Menschen zum Gebet. Angesichts der Tragödie flatterte die Staatsflagge auf Halbmast, während die Trauernden vor dem Gebäude Kerzen anzündeten.

Sogar der frühere Präsident Lech Walesa, der sonst immer eine schnelle Antwort auf jede Frage parat hat, suchte lange nach den richtigen Worten. Bei diesem Flugzeugabsturz sei „die Elite der Nation“ gestorben, sagte der Friedensnobelpreisträger und einstige Arbeiterheld. Der Verlust sei so gewaltig wie vor 70 Jahren in Katyn. >>> Von Jacek Lepiarz | Samstag, 10. April 2010

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Eilmeldung: Verkehrsflugzeug in Iran abgestürzt: 150 Passagiere an Bord
NZZ Online: Ein iranisches Verkehrsflugzeug ist nach Angaben des staatlichen iranischen Fernsehens abgestürzt und hat vermutlich alle rund 150 Insassen in den Tod gerissen. Der Sender meldete am Mittwoch, dass mit keinen Überlebenden zu rechnen sei. >>> sda/Reuters/ap | Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009

REUTERS: Up to 168 Aboard Plane Killed in Iran Crash

TEHRAN - A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran on Wednesday and 168 people on board were killed, Iranian media reported.

The Caspian Airlines aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran's aviation organization, told state television.

State television showed footage of debris from the plane and some body parts.

"It's been a major disaster with pieces of aircraft spread over an area of 200 square meters," a fire brigade official told Iranian state television.

"There was an explosion which left an indentation 10 meters deep in the ground. There was nothing we could do. We tried to put out the fire as best we could," he said.

Other television pictures showed a large crater gouged into farmland with mangled pieces of metal scattered around. Smoke rose from the site as police and bystanders gathered around.

The plane was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it came down at 11:33 a.m. (0703 GMT) near the city of Qazvin, the official IRNA news agency said.

The plane crashed 16 minutes after take-off from the capital's Imam Khomeini International airport, it said. >>> Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian and Parisa Hafezi; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Louise Ireland, © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved | Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Our Thoughts and Prayers for Beverly Eckert, 9/11 Widow
Her husband died in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre after phoning to say that he loved her. As she flew to commemorate his 58th birthday and to establish a scholarship in his name at the high school where they met, Beverly Eckert also met her death in a fiery plane crash.

Ms Eckert was among 50 people who died when a Continental Connection commuter plane nosedived into a house in New York State, killing everyone on board and one person on the ground.

Last week Ms Eckert had met President Obama at the White House when he briefed the families of terrorism victims on the new Administration’s approach to terror suspects. 9/11 Widow Beverly Eckert among 50 Dead as Plane Lands on House >>> James Bone in New York | Saturday, February 14, 2009

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