Passengers escape injury in Lithuania plane crash
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"The plane was en route from Copenhagen to the western Lithuanian town Palanga when the crew noted the failure of the front and right landing gear"  VILNIUS  - A plane with 52 people aboard crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday but no one was hurt, the airport said, in the second such accident this week involving a turboprop of the Scandinavian SAS airline.The plane ploughed through the ground with its fuselage and right wing and slid off the runway at Vilnius airport when the crew decided to put down there after noticing in flight that landing gear had failed.Following a crash of the same type of SAS plane on Sunday in Denmark, also due to landing gear problems, the airline said it was grounding the Canadian DHC-8-400 aircraft and cancelling 112 flights. Read more
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian jetliner carrying 140 people burst into flames as it landed on Java island today, trapping people inside the burning plane, the airline and witnesses said.
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A Russian plane flying from St Petersburg in Russia to Doloman in Turkey had to turn back midflight after a drunken brawl over a young woman spun out of control, police said in a statement on Friday.
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A Russian passenger jet with 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine on Tuesday after sending a distress signal, emergency officials said. The Interfax news agency, citing the Russian emergencies ministry, said 30 bodies had been found.
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Twenty-five TAP-Air Portugal passengers and crew were slightly injured when the plane made a hasty maneuver to avoid a mid-air collision just before landing on an island in The Azores on Friday, TAP said.
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At least 49 people died  but dozens also escaped after an Indonesian passenger jet  overshot the runway and burst into flames on landing in the  cultural capital of Yogyakarta on Wednesday.
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A Russian airliner with 170 passengers and crew aboard crashed Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials have said.
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Passengers who were freed from a hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane are transported in a bus after it landed at Gando airport in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary ...Comment
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A Russian airliner carrying 170 people   crashed in flames on Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, probably after   hitting turbulence, killing all on board, officials said.
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A passenger plane carrying 170 people crashed into a filling station at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport on Tuesday after failing to brake in time upon landing, Globo News television said.
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Nine people are injured, two seriously, when a light aircraft crashes at a Kent aerodrome.
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Two people have been injured in anexplosion occurred in a small airport in Kenyan capital Nairobi Sunday afternoon. Kenyan government said the explosion may be caused by inflammable objects.
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An airplane carrying 100 passengers safely made an emergency landing at Leeds Bradford International Airport in northern England, a fire official said Saturday.
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The plane carrying the Wales football squad to Prague makes an emergency landing due to a cracked windscreen.
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The two pilotes and two passengers were injured when a man attacked them with an axe as a Kato Air Dornier 228 was about to land at Bodoe Airport around noon Wednesday.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Six passengers face potentially life-threatening injuries after an Air Canada plane made an emergency landing at Calgary airport on Thursday.
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A Russian passenger airliner made an emergency landing Tuesday in the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk after an alarm went off in the cockpit signaling a problem with the engine oil, an airline spokesman said. No one was hurt.