Indonesian plane's front 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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MOSCOW - A top Russian official on Thursday said that flight recorders failed to provide reliable information about what brought down two jetliners nearly simultaneously, killing 89 people, but that terrorism remained a leading possibility.    Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian president's envoy for the southern region, where one of the planes crashed, said despite the lack of information, the main theory about the catastrophe "all the same remains terrorism," the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia  - Twenty-two people died but scores 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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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane was fired on as it took off on Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, an intelligence officer said, contradicting official denials.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 26. - The recorders extracted from the wreckage of two planes that crashed nearly simultaneously have not revealed reliable information on the disastersâ causes, a top Russian official was quoted as saying today.
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The general manager of the main listed unit of Shanghai's Fudan University changed tickets at the last minute to board a commuter jet that crashed in north China killing 54 people, a source close to the company said on Monday.
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Systems to check for wind were not working properly at the time of Sunday's crash in Thailand, officials say.
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SOLO, Indonesia  - Rescue teams searched areas  around an airfield in central Indonesia on Wednesday for  survivors from a plane crash that police said killed at least  31 people and left 47 unaccounted for.
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BEIJING  - 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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Indonesia has temporarily closed its  border with East Timor to prevent fugitives sneaking into  Indonesian territory ahead of a tense lead-up to presidential  elections, the military said on Monday.
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Indonesian transport safety officials have launched an inquiry into the crash of a passenger plane in central Java which has killed more than 30 people and injured at least 60 others.
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Chinese government officials said on Sunday that there were no survivors in a plane crash which occurred in northern China. There were 47 passengers and six crew members on board the plane headed for Shanghai.
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Dubai airport, a major international hub, was closed for at least eight hours on Monday after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft was involved in an accident while trying to take off, officials said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopter aid  flights in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province have been  suspended after a military helicopter crashed on Monday, a U.S.  navy officer told reporters.
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WASHINGTON/SYDNEY  - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's plane had a small mechanical problem on Sunday but there were no safety concerns and it would make a planned refueling stop in Singapore, the White House said.
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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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Jakarta, Dec 01 - At least 25 people were killed and 61 injured when a passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked runway after landing in Indonesia&#39;s Central Java province, an official said Wednesday, revising downward an earlier toll of 31 dead.