Plane Crash

Passenger Plane with Nearly 50 Aboard Crashes in Russia’s Far East, No Survivors Seen

A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote spot in Russia's far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, with no immediate signs of survivors, authorities said. The aircraft, a twin-propeller Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar at ...

Plane Crash in Washington Claims Lives of Russian Figure Skating Stars

Global figure skating's tight-knit community was in mourning on Thursday after a passenger jet crash in Washington killed two former world champion coaches and stars from the next generation of top US talent. Former Russian world pairs champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who became elite skating coaches, and as many as 14 US skaters ...

Russia Pledges to Punish Those Responsible for Azerbaijan Plane Crash

Azerbaijan said on Monday that Moscow had promised to punish those responsible for the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku says was shot at by Russian air defences. The AZAL Embraer 190 jet crash-landed in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 of the 67 people on board. The incident prompted several airlines to cancel flights to ...