Ex-Pilot Confirms Bomber Loss
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A bomber pilot from World War II says he was shot down while being escorted by Tuskegee Airmen, an account that supports a recent report by two historians that the famed black fighter group, contrary to legend, did lose at least a few bombers to fire from enemy aircraft.
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British Airways said that &quot;very low traces of a radioactive substance&quot; had been found on two of its three aircraft taken out of service in the probe into the death of a former Russian spy.
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"We have an explosion. We are descending immediately. We have fire on board!" the co-pilot of the Cuban airliner radioed the Barbados control tower before his crippled DC-8 plunged into the Caribbean sea on October 6, 1976.
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The pilot of a civilian World War II stunt plane died Friday after the plane crashed while practicing just hours before an air show, officials said.
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An open pocket knife, two Smith and Wesson revolvers, now rusty, and an airman's gilded badge _ all flew with the Canadian and British crew of a World War II bomber on its final mission carrying aid for ...Comment
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An open pocket knife, two Smith and Wesson revolvers, now rusty, and an airman's gilded badge - all flew with the Canadian and British crew of a World War II bomber on its final mission carrying aid for ...Comment
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LONDON, June 28 -- The Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of an American jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice," an independent review board concluded Thursday, granting his request for an appeal.
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A Dutch pilot died on Thursday when   his F-16 fighter plane crashed in southern Afghanistan,   apparently in an accident, the defense ministry said.
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A pilot's temporary "mental incapacitation" played a crucial part in the crash and break-up of a British holiday jet with 236 passengers on board, a report from the Spanish air authorities said yesterday.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Hendrick Motorsports officials have confirmed that an airplane owned by the organization was reported missing and downed today.
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The last radio contact from John F. Kennedy Jr. before he died when the plane he was flying crashed into the Atlantic in July 1999 was a routine "thanks" to air controllers in New Jersey for runway clearance, newly released documents showed on Wednesday.
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The FSB (Russia&#39;s security service and ex KGB) have confirmed that explosives have been located on the second crashed Russian jet.
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The co-pilot of an airliner which crashed in New York in November 2001 made a fatal error, an inquiry finds.
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Historians unearth the wreckage of an RAF Halifax bomber and the remains of its crew in the south of Poland.
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In the early morning of July 1, 1973, Col. Yosef Alon &#151; a charismatic former fighter pilot who helped establish the Israeli Air Force &#151; was gunned down in his suburban Maryland driveway. Thirty-four years later, the case is unsolved.
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EMERGENCY workers have retrieved the body of the pilot of an Indonesian budget airliner that crashed after skidding off the runway, as stormy weather was blamed for the countyâs worst air accident in six years.
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The one air traffic controller on duty during a deadly US plane crash had his back turned, officials say.