Plane Crash

A cargo plane with eight people on board crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece at around 11:00 pm on Saturday, the Hellenic Fire Service has confirmed. The Antonov An-12 was owned by a Ukrainian company and was...

The 2016 EgyptAir plane crash was found by an inquest to have been caused by the pilot smoking a cigarette in the cockpit.

A witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was killed along with his wife in a light plane crash in Greece on Monday. Israeli media report that the victims are Haim Garon, former Communications Ministry...

A fire-fighting plane crashed in Greece while battling a blaze on the Ionian Sea island of Zakynthos on Sunday. The pilot was rescued from the crash by firefighters at the scene and is in good condition. The plane was sent...

The pilot of a two-seater Greek Air Force aircraft was killed after the plane crashed north of Sparta at 8:50 am on Tuesday during a training flight, according to the Athens News Agency. Both men had abandoned the aircraft and...

Many people are feared to have died as a military plane crashed in Algeria, local media report. Two hundred people or more were said to be on board the aircraft, which reportedly crashed after take-off. TV news reports said 14 ambulances...

A Greek scientist had a lucky escape when a travel delay caused him to miss an ill-fated Iranian plane which went down on Sunday, killing 66 passengers and crew. Professor Akis Tselentis, who is director general of the Greek Geodynamic Institute, had...

The two pilots who flew a Cessna airplane that went missing on Sunday have been found dead next to the remains of the airplane three kilometers north of Kalavryta. According to the Civil Aviation Service, the last known communication with the small vessel...

A firefighting Canadair CL-215 fell while on duty, 1km north of the Titan cement factory on the border between the region of Attica and Viotia, central Greece. The pilots had to conduct an emergency landing on Sunday morning while...

A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by FlyDubai Airlines, crashed while attempting to land in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday morning. All 62 people on board - 55 passengers and seven crew members - were killed...