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Small Plane Crash in Kan. Kills 4 on Easter Trip

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A small airplane carrying a young couple and their daughters on their way to visit friends for Easter crashed in a muddy Kansas corn field Friday, killing all four, officials said. The six-seat Beechcraft plane registered to Precision Ag & Seed Services LLC in Scott City went down about noon roughly 3...

UN Confirms 32 of 33 Killed in Congo Plane Crash

UNITED NATIONS -- Only one person survived among the 33 U.N. personnel and crew members aboard a plane that crashed in Congo on Monday, U.N. officials said. U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy told reporters he had no detailed information about the sole survivor, who he said was hospitalized after the crash in the...

Undersea Robots Locate Bodies, Parts of Air France Plane Crash

PARIS -- Undersea robots have located bodies, motors and a "large part" of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, but haven't yet found its black box flight recorders, French officials said Monday. Victims' families cautiously welcomed the surprise announcement that search teams have located...

4 Dead in Crash of Small Plane at New Mexico Airport

ROSWELL, N.M. - Four Gulfstream employees were killed Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at an airport, authorities said. Officials with Savannah-Ga.-based plane company confirmed that two Gulfstream pilots and two flight-test engineers died in the crash. Their names and other...

US Military Plane Crashes in Libya; Fighting Rages in Cities

BU MARIEM, Libya -- An American fighter jet crashed in Libya's rebel held east, both crew ejecting safely as the aircraft spun from the sky during the third night of the U.S. and European air campaign. Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled rebels regrouping in the dunes outside a key eastern city on Tuesday, and his snipers and...

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Plane Crashes Into Building In Lagos, Nigeria; Kills All 153 Passengers

All 153 passengers travelling in the plane which hit a building in Lagos, Nigeria, have been killed, the Press Association reports.

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At Least 1 Dead In 2 Small Plane Crashes In Longmont

At least one person has been killed after two small planes crashed north of Denver near Longmont in a possible midair collision.

Background on plane crash

An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.

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