Forty-eight people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed in the west of the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iranian state TV, BBC reported.
One of the planes involved in the incident was being flown by Radka Machova, the 65-year-old leader of the four-member team.
A possible accident was averted when alert airport ground staff detected smoke and sparks flying from an engine of an Allahabad-bound passenger aircraft as it prepared to take off from Kanpur.
The authorities have called the families of the crew for carrying out DNA tests for identification of the deceased and collecting the remains and personal effects.
Ecuador had put the Indian choppers on "restricted" ops following a spate of accidents
The accident rate of the Soviet-made multi-role fighter has been reduced by 56 per cent in the last decade.
Russia has blamed "human factor" for the crash of a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft in October last year that led to the grounding of the entire fleet of India's frontline fighter plane for a month, a charge denied by the Indian Air Force.
A small aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines with 29 people on board a flight to Hyderabad was involved in an accident on the runway at the airport in Bengaluru on Thursday night shortly before take-off, leaving two passengers injured. All passengers of the IT 2427 flight were evacuated from the turbo-prop ATR plane, used for short-haul journey, whose nosewheel was damaged after it hit a dog that strayed into the area and the aircraft slid on the runway on its belly.
There was no casualty or damage to property, Superintendent of Police Niti Sekhar said.
Flight PK8303 crashed among houses in the Model Colony residential area on Friday as it approached Karachi airport, killing 97 people, including nine children.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said lack of proper training was found to be the major reason for the large number of fighter plane accidents.
Tezpur is the last of the IAF bases in the country to phase out the MiG 21.
But the regulator has dropped the proposal of asking flyers to maintain 30 seconds of silence.
A "minor" fire broke out in one of the living compartments of warship 'INS Savitri' in the Naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam but there were no casualties.
facilities at Bangalore one understands the financial year end frenzy at these establishments and the slipshod slippages in timeframes, quality of overhaul, servicing and quality control across the board, for aircraft and equipment alike,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
This was the sixth combat aircraft lost by the IAF this year and the fifth accident involving a jet of the Russian-made MiG series.
A Mirage 2000 fighter plane on Monday crashed in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district and its two pilots ejected safely -- the second mishap involving the aircraft type in 11 days which prompted the IAF to stop flying the entire fleet and subject it to preliminary checks.
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'Other countries go out on a limb to save even a single life.' 'What to talk of civilian accidents and disasters, even our military does not have a priority for Combat Search and Rescue,' says Group Captain P I Muralidharan (retd).
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar informed the the Lok Sabha about this
The hull of INS Agray, which is part of the Navy's anti-submarine warfare squadron, was damaged resulting in flooding of the ship's engine room.
Gandhi took to Twitter to put out a Sanskrit shloka from the Upanishads and tweeted a picture of Mount Kailash along with it.
Four navy personnel, including an officer, remained missing on Friday after a vessel sank off the Vishakhapatnam coast on Thursday night and a full scale search is underway to trace them besides.
The makes of these fighter planes were MiGs, Su-30 MKI and Jaguar. Six pilots were killed in these crashes. This includes 2 MiG-21 aircrafts that crashed during take off.
A US-made C-130J military transport plane, one of the most modern aircraft acquired recently by the Indian Air Force, crashed on Friday near Gwalior, killing all the five crew members, including four officers.
The process of analyzing the Black Box and other vital components of the Air India aircraft that crashed on Saturday began on Tuesday to ascertain the cause of the accident with officials and experts holding a series of meetings.
While techniques of handling air turbulence are crucial, a pilot from a major airline said the training provided isn't enough.
Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi was among the best fighter pilots of the Indian Air Force. He perished when the Hawk aircraft he was flying had a mid air collision in Bengaluru on February 19. Those who had flown with him tell Archana Masih/Rediff.com about the skilled flyer who had a fan following among young pilots.
Russia on Monday said there was no glitches on the part of Russian technology in India's front line combat aircraft Sukhoi-30 fleet which was cleared for flying last month after being grounded for nearly a month following a crash.
A United Nations-backed nuclear watchdog has said that it has not detected an explosion or a crash that could be linked to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, amid continued speculation over fate of the aircraft.
In a full-scale offensive, Narendra Modi on Sunday charged that Sonia Gandhi's "blind love" towards her son Rahul Gandhi had left the country in "ruins" and the United Progressive Alliance government was "remote-controlled" by her.
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Kingfisher Airlines, National Aviation Company of India Limited -- the state-owned company that runs Air India -- and Indigo could face additional cost pressures, with reinsurance rates expected to harden following the accident involving the Air France aircraft that was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 passengers on board.
The crash of the Mi-17 V5 took place at around 6 am when it was on a maintenance mission.
The fire broke out around 12 am at Biomax Fuels Limited, a bio-diesel manufacturing unit in the Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zone, Duvvada area.
Internal strife and tribalism is endemic to Afghanistan, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A pilot was on Wednesday killed and an instructor accompanying him injured when the Madhya Pradesh Flying Club-owned Cessna aircraft they were flying crashed at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport in Indore.
Smoke alerts were triggered inside the cabin of the ill-fated EgyptAir jet minutes before it plunged into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board.
Since Friday evening, 41-year-old Shemir, who works as a logistics manager in Dubai Silicon Oasis, has been making frantic phone calls to different trauma centres in Kerala near the Kozhikode airport to get information of his family members on board the flight.
