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Singapore's search operation to locate the debris of the crashed AirAsia plane came to end on Sunday with its ship that found the jet's fuselage in the Java Sea returning back after days of rigorous scouring.
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.
Concerned over the deteriorating condition of SpiceJet, aviation regulator DGCA on Friday withdrew 186 of its slots and asked it to clear salary dues of all its employees in the next ten days.
Sukhoi fighter jet planes resumed flying on Monday after being grounded for a week following a crash involving one of the aircraft in the fleet in Jaisalmer on November 30."The Sukhoi aircraft has started flying again and the first flight of the fighter jet, after being grounded for a week, took place this afternoon at Lohegaon airbase near Pune," said an officer of the Indian Air Force.
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The captain of the turbine jet was alive and recuperating in a local hospital, Xinhua reported. But Capt Qi Quanjun, lying on a hospital bed with tubes tucked around his body appeared traumatised and was unable to talk to the media
Cash-strapped SpiceJet has cancelled over 1,800 flights across the country for the current month, in signs of mounting troubles for the budget airline.
43 houses were destroyed and several children are reported to have been among the dead.
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.
Ukrainian investigators have found 196 bodies at the crash site where a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 298 people was brought down by a missile in pro-Russia rebels-held eastern part of the country.
A Thai satellite has spotted hundreds of floating objects in southern Indian Ocean that could possibly be the debris of the crashed Malaysian plane, even as bad weather on Thursday grounded multination aerial search for the aircraft's wreckage.
The crash of the Mi-17 V5 took place at around 6 am when it was on a maintenance mission.
The Russian defense ministry confirmed that one of its jets, a Sukhoi SU-24, had crashed in Syria but said it had been downed "presumably as a result of shelling from the ground."
No-frills airline SpiceJet on Wednesday launched yet another round of limited-period low fare offers to fill its seats for travel between July and September when air travel generally slumps.
This is the ninth IAF Aircraft crash since January this year. "The aircraft was on a routine training sortie from the Hashimara airbase and crashed at around 1310 hours, nearly 15 kilometres from its take off base near New Jalpaiguri," IAF officials said.
'The flight crashed 16 minutes after its take-off from the International Imam Khomeini Airport,' said Iran's Aviation Organisation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh.
The MIG 21, on a routine sortie, crashed into a farm in Inda village, 20 km from Bikaner, and caught fire.
A general court martial (GCM) instituted by the Indian Air Force has ordered the sacking of a group captain for the crash of an Mi-17 V5 helicopter in Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir after it was hit by a missile on February 27, 2019, official sources said on Tuesday.
The airline had reported a net loss of Rs 321.5 crore or Rs 3.21 billion in the same period a year ago.
At least 17 bodies have been recovered from the debris of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last week.
The plan to phase out the Soviet-origin aircraft fleet is part of the IAF's modernisation drive and it is not related to the latest crash of a MiG-21 jet in Rajasthan's Barmer on Thursday night.
In yet another mishap, a MiG-21 jet fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in the marshlands in Kutch near the Indo-Pak border on Friday. But the pilot bailed out safely.
The airline re-built the flight schedule and refunded passengers.
Russia on Sunday mourned its biggest ever air disaster after a passenger jet full of Russian tourists crashed in Egypt's Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.
Tickets will be sold only through Air India website from August 27-31 and for travel during August 27-September 30.
The crucial black box of the doomed AirAsia jet was on Sunday found in the Java Sea stuck under the debris from the plane's fuselage and will be retrieved on Monday as the major breakthrough in the search raised hopes of unravelling the mystery of the crash soon.
Air India, which this year preferred a consortium of private sector players led by Reliance General, had in fact started feeling the heat even before the crash took place.
India has grounded its entire Sukhoi-30 fleet and each aircraft is undergoing a thorough technical check following a recent crash near Pune.
Russia has informed India that the crash of a MiG 29K fighter jet, which was manufactured for the Indian Navy, was due to pilot error and there was no need for it to ground its planes in India.
Typically, the airline sells 40,000 seats a day.
SpiceJet has been most affected by the grounding of 737 Max 8 aircraft as it has 12 of them in its fleet.
The sole member of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv ice hockey team to survive last week's air crash in western Russia died of his injuries on Monday, the medical centre that treated him said.
He said the Pakistan Air Force was detected and the Indian Air Force responded instantly.
The search for flight MH370 is yet to target a "hotspot" most likely to be the crash site in the Indian Ocean as priority was given to investigate "pings" that has led to a dead end, a United Kingdom satellite firm claimed on Tuesday.
The jet fell on the house of a tractor mechanic, Bhola, in Mullanpur Dakha, Ludhiana.
The missing Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board, including five Indians, crashed in remote southern Indian Ocean with no survivors and their families have been informed, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday, 17 days after the jet vanished mysteriously.
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