SURVIVORS TELL OF BUMPS, FLAMES AND RELIEF
Passengers on Air France Flight 358 are telling harrowing stories of how they managed to get out of the airplane as it burst into flames just off a major runway at Toronto's international airport.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...ries050803.html
RESCUERS SEARCH SEA AFTER PLANE CRASHES NEAR SICILY
Coast guard crews are combing the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily for three people who remain missing after a Tunisian passenger plane smashed into choppy waters.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...rash050806.html
AIRLINER CARRYING 121 CRASHES NEAR ATHENS
GRAMMATIKO: A Cypriot airliner carrying 121 people slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens after apparently suffering a loss of cabin pressure or oxygen minutes before it was due to land.
Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3377469a10~,00.html
PROBE INTO 160-DEATH JET CRASH
Venezuelan investigators picked through the shattered wreckage of a plane that crashed with 160 people on board, trying to determine what caused the engines to fail in the country's deadliest air disaster.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/...h.ap/index.html
Airplane Crash Kills 117 in Indonesia
AP - An Indonesian jetliner crashed into a crowded residential neighborhood in the city of Medan shortly after takeoff Monday, killing all 117 on board and an unknown number on the ground, officials said.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...sia_plane_crash
117 KILLED IN NIGERIA PLANE CRASH
All 117 people aboard a passenger jet that crashed shortly after take-off from
Lagos are dead, including several high-level Nigerian officials, the government said Sunday.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23...lane/index.html
When I heard about the below story it was first on the BBC. I was amazed about three things:
1. He made it through the crash as the sole survivor
2. He still had a working mobile phone
3. The passenger list was different from those that boarded and those that were supposed to be on the plane - sounds fishy to me, especially considering they were carrying mostly military personnel.
QUOTE |
LONE PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR CALLED WIFE, TOLD HER TO GET HELP The lone survivor from the crash of a Slovak military plane in northeastern Hungary reached his wife on a cell phone after escaping the flaming wreckage, Hungary's defense minister said Friday. Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/20...reut/index.html |