Plane crash

All four crewmembers safe after two US fighter jets collide mid-air at Idaho Air Show

According to local media, Mountain Home Air Force Base has been locked down following the Gunfighters Air Show crash.

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 1, 2026 at Sea; illustrative.
A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (foreground); illustrative.

Plane crash near Juba, South Sudan, kills all 14 aboard, civil aviation authority confirms

An F-15K landing; illustrative.

Korean fighter jet pilot fined five years after damaging plane while filming during flight

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026.

LaGuardia controller under investigation in Air Canada Express runway collision


How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane

Officials at Japan's second-biggest airline on Wednesday said the crew followed emergency procedures in textbook fashion, starting with the first rule: panic control.

 An aerial view shows burnt Japan Airlines' (JAL) Airbus A350 plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan January 3, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo.

WATCH: Plane lands in Tokyo engulfed in flames after mid-air collision

All 379 passengers and crew on board the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated, but five of the six aboard the Coast Guard plane with which it collided are reported killed.

 Firefighters work at Haneda International Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire, in Tokyo, Japan January 2, 2024.

Plane crash in Brazil's Amazon state leaves 14 dead

Governor Lima said that the bodies had already been removed from the aircraft and that the victims were Brazilian tourists.

A man stands near an aircraft after it crashed, which has left 14 dead, in Barcelos, Amazonas State, Brazil September 16, 2023.

Italy's former PM claims France, US downed plane in attempt to kill Gaddafi

81 passengers lost their life on Flight 870 in 1980, leaving it one of Italy's most tragic mysteries.

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, file photo, 2008

Late Russian mercenary Prigozhin spoke about his security in newly surfaced video

"For those who are discussing whether I'm alive or not, how I'm doing - right now it's the weekend, second half of August 2023, I'm in Africa," Prigozhin says in the short video.

  Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage and with a weapon in his hands in a desert area at an unknown location, in this still image taken from video possibly shot in Africa and published August 21, 2023.

Kremlin says Prigozhin plane crash may have been caused deliberately

In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry said that Russia's investigation took into account the possibility that the crash had been caused deliberately.

 A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2023.

Juice, Ukrainian pilot of the Ghost of Kyiv unit, dies in plane crash

The pilot, named Maj. Andrii Pilshchykov and known by the call sign of Juice, was part of the Ghost of Kyiv unit and dreamed of Ukrainian pilots flying F-16s.

 A Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet lands during the Clear Sky 2018 multinational military drills at Starokostiantyniv Air Base in Khmelnytskyi Region, Ukraine October 12, 2018

Russia confirms Wagner mercenary chief Prigozhin died in plane crash

Days after he had been presumed dead, Russia finally confirmed the Wagner leader's demise.

 A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2023.

Three Ukrainian military fighter pilots die in mid-air collision

The crash occurred on Friday over the Zhytomyr region, which lies west of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

 An L-39 Albatross jet trainer aircraft prepares before take off at a military air base in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, August 3, 2016

What happens to Wagner mercenary group after Prigozhin plane crash? - analysis

The fate of the complex, lucrative web of military and commercial operations that Prigozhin and Wagner created hangs in the balance.

 A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial near former PMC Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia August 24, 2023.