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​ Image copyrightAFP At least 19 people have been injured in a plane crash near the city of Pretoria in South Africa. Local emergency services posted a picture on Twitter showing passengers being helped from the burning wreckage of a plane in a grassy field. Unconfirmed reports said one person was critically injured. “Medics from … Continue reading Many casualties as plane crashes in South Africa

Share Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionSixty-six people were killed in the crash The crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 in 2016 was probably caused by a fire in the cockpit, French investigators say. They said onboard recorders suggested that the blaze had spread rapidly through the plane. The findings contradict Egypt’s earlier statements that explosives had been … Continue reading EgyptAir flight MS804: French says fire was cause that killed 66 people

Five people were injured when a small plane operated by the UN’s humanitarian air service overturned on the runway in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, the organisation said. The accident happened during take off on a remote runway in Kamonia, in central Kasai region, according to statement from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which runs the UN air service, UNHAS. “The two crew members and three passengers sustained minor injuries and were taken to a local medical facility,” it added. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The WFP said the group was made up of two Ugandan crew and a French, Chadian and Congolese national, all of whom were not WFP employees. The small Cessna Caravan plane, chartered by the UN Humanitarian Air Service, “got stuck in the sand and overturned,” said local Congolese official Jean Paul Kuzuka, adding that the poor condition of the runway was the main cause of the accident. He reported that among the wounded were two Briton

Five people were injured when a small plane operated by the UN’s humanitarian air service overturned on the runway in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, the organisation said. The accident happened during take off on a remote runway in Kamonia, in central Kasai region, according to statement from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which runs the UN air service, UNHAS. “The two crew members and three passengers sustained minor injuries and were taken to a local medical facility,” it added. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The WFP said the group was made up of two Ugandan crew and a French, Chadian and Congolese national, all of whom were not WFP employees. The small Cessna Caravan plane, chartered by the UN Humanitarian Air Service, “got stuck in the sand and overturned,” said local Congolese official Jean Paul Kuzuka, adding that the poor condition of the runway was the main cause of the accident. He reported that among the wounded were two Briton

​ Two people died after a cargo plane crashed in Nepal during bad weather Wednesday, the latest aviation accident in the impoverished Himalayan nation. The Makalu Air flight lost contact moments after takeoff and crashed into a hillside not far from its destination in the remote northwestern district of Humla. The wreckage was found scattered across a mountain at an altitude of 3,900 metres (12,800 feet). “Bodies of both the pilot and co-pilot have been recovered from the crash site,” district chief Madhav Prasad Dhungana told AFP. “We believe it missed the route and crashed into a hillside, probably because of bad weather.” Nepal has a poor road network and many remote mountain communities rely on planes and helicopters to bring in basic goods. But the country has a dismal safety record, which is largely blamed on inadequate maintenance and poor management. Nepal-based airlines are banned from flying in European Union airspace because of safety concerns. In March, 51 people