One thruster turned off in Brazil crash
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One of the two reverse thrusters on an airliner carrying 186 people that crashed in a fireball was turned off when the plane landed, the jet's owner said, as officials tried to determine why it raced down a runway instead of slowing down.
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A passenger plane which crashed in the Amazon collided with another aircraft, Brazilian officials confirm.
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SAO PAULO -- Brazilian police said yesterday that they are requesting that charges of endangering air safety be filed against two US pilots in the crash of a Brazilian airliner that killed all 154 people on board.
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A twin-engine plane crashed in the Amazon jungle Wednesday, killing all six people aboard, the Brazil's National Civil Aeronautics Board said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rescue planes on Saturday found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger jet that disappeared the previous day with 155 people aboard over the Amazon jungle, Brazil's airport authority said.
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Six computers began crashing on the Russian side of the international space station Tuesday, limiting the spacecraft's ability to maneuver and produce oxygen. Here are answers to some questions about that problem:
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Rescue workers find the data recorders of a plane which crashed in Brazil on Friday killing all 155 on board.
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A radar failure over the Amazon forced Brazil to turn back or ground a string of international flights Saturday, deepening a national aviation crisis just hours after the president unveiled safety measures prompted by the country's deadliest air disaster.
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Brazil has launched its first rocket into space, a feat that comes just 14 months after its space program was devastated by a deadly launch pad accident.
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A plane carrying at least 150 people crashed into a gas station and burst into flames after landing at Sao Paulo's airport Tuesday, Brazil's airport authority said.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The Brazilian passenger plane that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero said on Saturday, meaning there is little chance that anyone survived.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The president of Brazil's Senate, Renan Calheiros, was slightly hurt when the helicopter in which he was traveling crashed in northeast Brazil on Saturday, a congressional spokesman said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A Brazilian court yesterday ordered police to seize the passports of two American pilots whose executive jet clipped a commercial plane in midair last week, causing the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle and kill 155 people, a spokeswoman said. A Brazilian newspaper reported that the Brazilian-made Legacy executive jet, which was carrying seven Americans, ...
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Urgent: European probe SMART-1 orbiter crashes into moon's surface    PARIS, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The SMART-1 orbiter of the European Space Agency, a probe launched aboard an Aariane-5 rocket in September 2003, on Sunday crashed into the moon's surface.
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Rescue planes spotted wreckage from a missing Brazilian jetliner with 155 people on board, an airline spokesman told CNN on Saturday. The Gol plane disappeared while flying over dense Amazon rainforest on Friday evening. Some reports say it collided in midair with a smaller plane.
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The cockpit voice recorder from a private jet involved in Brazil's worst ever air crash and dialogues among traffic controllers point to a series of errors and misunderstandings that may have contributed to the accident, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
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A Brazilian passenger plane carrying 174 people crashed into a fuel station and set off a huge fire at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport on Tuesday, killing at least one person.