Continental Airlines (Houston) has denied any wrongdoing. French prosecutors stated Continental should be fined 175,000 euros ($218,800) for manslaughter over its role in the 2000 crash of an Air France (Paris) Concorde plane which killed 113 people.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE64K1YI20100521?rpc=44
Pamir Airways’ (Kabul) Antonov An-24B YA-PIS has been located. The airlinerย disappeared Monday while flying over Afghanistanโs Hindu Kush mountains with 44 people on board, including six foreigners, officials said.
Photos supplied by NATOย forces show that the plane had broken into four pieces that were strewn across a steep mountainside, suggesting that it was unlikely that anyone survived.
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Pamir Airways (Kabul) has lost its Antonov An-24B YA-PIS (msn 27307903) today in a remote part of Afghanistan. The aircraft wasย carrying 44 passengers and crew, including six foreigners, in a mountainous northern region with poor weather.
Rescuers were on their way to the crash site near the 12,700-foot highย Salangย Pass, a major route through theย Hindu Kush mountainsย that connects the capital to the north. The plane, on a flight from the northern city of Kunduz, went down about 60 miles fromย Kabul.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_plane_crash
Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best. The doomed Airbus A330-202 5A-ONG (msn 1024) is seen at Dubai before the crash in similar desert conditions it would have encountered at Tripoli.
ATW has raised this question:
Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-202 F-WWYS (5A-ONG) (msn 1024) TLS (investigation continues), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
According to ATW, “Investigators examining the Afriqiyah Airways A330-200 crash are expected to focus on faulty landing aids and the pilots being blinded by the sun as possible causes.
ATWOnline has learned that Runway 09, to which the aircraft was headed, does not have an ILS and the VOR navigational aid was suffering from interference. Pilots were warned in a NOTAM that “interference from signal being experienced during current airport development work. VOR should be used with caution.”
The aircraft was landing to the east and crashed just as the sun was rising, leading to suspicions that the pilots may have been blinded by sunlight to possible errors in their approach and height caused by problems with the landing aids. The aircraft’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders both have been recovered.”
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Copyright Photo: The relatively-new crashed A330-202 is seen at Toulouse on a test flight as F-WWYS before it was delivered as 5A-ONG on September 8, 2009.
Investigators searching for the Air France Airbus A330 flight data recorder in the Atlantic Ocean have now been able to reduce the search area due to possible ping from the flight data recorder. The recovery of the device is deemed essential to solving the crash mystery.
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Merpati Nusantara Airlines (Jakarta) lost its ex-United Airlines Boeing 737-322 PK-MDE (msn 24660) on Tuesday (April 13). A routineย domestic flight (flight MNA 836) in Indonesia ended in disaster Tuesday when the Boeing 737 carrying over 100 passengers broke apart on landing, injuring more than 70 people, officials said.
The Merpati Boeing 737 skidded off the end of the wet runway at Rendani Airportย inย Manokwari, West Papua, hurtled into trees and skidded into a shallow river according to this published report.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100413/wl_asia_afp/indonesiaairaccident
Aero Union (Aerotransporte de Carga Union) (Mexico) Airbus A300B4-203 (F) XA-TUE (msn 078) LAX (Joe G. Walker) (crashed in Mexico), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Aero Union’s (Aerotransporte de Carga Union) (Mexico City) Airbus A300B4-203 XA-TUE has crashed in Monterrey, Mexico. Please click on the photo for further details.
Copyright Photo: Joe G. Walker.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the cockpit tape recording of the PSA Airlines flight US 2495 accident of January 19 at Charleston, WV.
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Airnorth (Darwin) lost its Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia VH-ANB (msn 120116) on March 22 when it was destroyed on takeoff at Darwin Airport, NT (DRW), Australia. Both pilots were killed. The crew was conducting a training flight when the EMB-120 crashed at the airport’s boundary were the Darwin RAAF Station is located.
Read the full report from the Aviation Safety Network:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20100322-0
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