In the wake of last week’s fatal plane crash that took the life of its CEO,Micron Technology has appointed a successor, Mark Durcan. The former CTO has been with the company since 1984, and has — per company bylaws — been serving as interim chief since February 3rd. Robert Switz, the company’s previous Board Director, will [...]
TUNOSHNA, Russia — A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into a [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Authorities say two single-engine planes have collided in midair over western Alaska. Each reportedly carried just a pilot. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson says reports from the scene near the village of Nightmute say at least one of the pilots survived Friday’s crash. He says the other plane was reported [...]
RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut (AP) — Police say the three survivors of a Boeing 737-200 plane crash in Canada’s Arctic region that killed 12 people are in stable condition. First Air charter flight 6560 crashed Saturday afternoon into a hill as it was approaching an airport near the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay. Local residents and [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal investigator looking into a fatal plane crash in Alaska said Monday one of the four survivors told him the small aircraft struck the side of a mountain in fog so thick, it created whiteout conditions. The single-engine Cessna was carrying all three teachers for the tiny Athabascan village of Anvik [...]
The airport where a jet skidded off a rain-slicked runway before heading for a deep ravine did not have all its systems running at the time of the crash, it has been revealed. In the wake of the incident that caused the plane from New York to split in two, Georgetown’s Cheddi Jagan airport has [...]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish report into the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others says Russian air traffic controllers gave incorrect landing instructions to pilots. The report released Friday also said that the airstrip where the plane crashed near Smolensk, Russia, was badly illuminated. The long-awaited report also pointed to many failures by Polish officials. It [...]
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