China confirms all on board China Eastern plane died in crash
Beijing, ChinaReuters China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the south-western city of Kunming to the port city of Guangzhou on Monday when it plummeted from cruising altitude to crash in a heavily forested […]
Indonesia air crash investigator hopes for recovery of cockpit voice recorder
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesia’s air accident investigator is still hoping to recover the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to better understand information obtained from the flight data recorder, an official said on Tuesday. The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on 9th […]
Sriwijaya Air crash places Indonesia’s aviation safety under fresh spotlight
Sydney, Australia/Jakarta, IndonesiaReuters Indonesia’s chequered air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after take-off on Saturday, marking the country’s third major airline crash in just over six years. Before the crash there had been 697 fatalities in Indonesia over the […]