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Air France Plane Crash Parts Found in Atlantic

PARIS - Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunday, offering a surprising new glimmer of hope in the protracted hunt for clues to what happened. Previous extensive and expensive search efforts proved futile in attempts to shed...

Air Wreck Expert Searches for Plane Truth

(Oct. 13) -- Pat Macha's next mission will take him to California's Mojave Desert on a quest to help a man honor the dead. "He promised his dad he'd visit this grave, so we're taking him out there in mid-October," Macha recently explained to AOL News. "The jet bomber crashed in 1955. The crew chief was going to ride in...

Small Plane Crashes Into Building Near Chicago; 2 Hurt

(Oct. 6) -- A small plane carrying a husband and wife crashed into the roof of a suburban Chicago fitness club this afternoon, severely damaging the building and sending both occupants to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one in the sports club was hurt. As AOL Naperville Patch reports: Lloyd McKee, 66,...

Probe Finds Chinese Pilots Faking Flight Histories

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Sept. 8) -- A government probe has found that at least 170 Chinese pilots have falsified their flight histories, renewing concerns over China's air safety in the wake of an Aug. 24 crash that killed 42. That crash of a Henan Airlines flight, during a landing at a foggy airport in northeastern China, was...

Background on plane crashes

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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