Indonesian plane's main exit didn't open: official
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YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia  - The main front left exit of an Indonesian plane that crashed this week failed to open after landing, preventing some of the passengers from escaping, a leading crash investigator said on Friday.
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Forty-nine people have been confirmed dead in a plane crash at the airport of the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, a government official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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A top Russian official said Thursday that flight recorders failed to provide reliable information about what brought down two jetliners just minutes apart, but for the first time a government leader conceded that terrorism was considered the leading possibility.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A Europe-led mission monitoring a peace pact in Indonesia's Aceh province has no plans to extend its stay beyond December 15, the group's chief said on Saturday.
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The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
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KOTA KINABALU: An AirAsia plane with 110 passengers skidded off the runway at the international airport here but all on board escaped without any serious injuries.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - The Indonesian pilot of a budget airliner that crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people, tried to land despite being warned of windshear threats, a top Thai aviation official said on Tuesday.
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An Afghan passenger plane with 104 people  on board has gone missing after being turned away from Kabul  airport due to a snow storm, an airline official said on  Friday.
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Investigators in China are searching for clues as to the cause of a plane crash that killed 54 people, but after more than 24 hours of efforts they have still not located the crucial black box.
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TOAMASINA, Madagascar  - Madagascar closed an airport in the eastern town of Toamasina on Saturday to stop an exiled opposition leader from returning home to beat a deadline to register for a presidential election.
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[World News]: Karachi, Dec.23 : Pakistan&#39;s Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had a narrow escape late on Wednesday when a Pakistan International Airlines plane was forced to dive to avoid a collision with another airliner over
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The Hendrick Motorsports plane that crashed Oct. 24 and killed all 10 aboard missed the approach to the airport and then failed to climb before crashing into a mountain, according to a preliminary report Friday.
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Half of the systems used to detect wind shear at the Phuket airport were not working at the time of the weekend plane crash that killed 89 people, a Thai official said Tuesday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A Lion Air passenger plane skidded off the runway and crashed in Central Indonesia on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring 62, police said.
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A jetliner carrying 110 people has skidded off a runway into a swamp in Indonesia's eastern Kalimantan province in thick haze, but no one was injured, an airport official said.
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Investigators examine the wreckage of a passenger plane which crash-landed in Indonesia, killing 22 people.
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THE Howard Government has been assured by Indonesia that one of the main Bali bombers will not be released after reports he was seen having a coffee with a senior policeman in a central Jakarta shopping mall.