The U.S. Department of State announced on Wednesday that two Americans and two permanent residents living in the United States were among those killed when a plane crashed on Jan. 15 into a river gorge in the city of Pokhara, Nepal. “We are deeply saddened to hear of the tragic Yeti Airlines crash over the weekend, […]
In a dramatic change in the Chinese communist regime’s official number of recent COVID deaths, Beijing raised it to 60,000, from just 37 a week ago. Find out what experts estimate the real number to be. It’s Nepal’s worst plane crash in decades. Local authorities have confirmed that there were no survivors on board the […]
SEATTLE—A federal safety agency said Saturday that four people who died when a small plane crashed north of Seattle last month were conducting test flights to gather baseline information before the Cessna 208B was modified with a new aerodynamic drag reduction system. The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report Saturday on the Nov. […]
Democrats are projected to maintain control of the U.S. Senate, after pulling off wins in Nevada and Arizona. NTD has more on the outcomes from key races in the battleground states. Completed mail-in ballots were found in a ravine in North California. The United States Postal Service and Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters are […]
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—Six people, apparently including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, were feared dead Saturday after a small plane crashed into the Caribbean just off the Costa Rican coast. All five passengers were believed to be German citizens, Security Minister Jorge Torres said. The plane’s pilot was Swiss. At least one other of […]
SEATTLE—Federal authorities have issued a warning about a part of the tail in the type of seaplane that crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound last month, killing 10 people. The Seattle Times reports that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive concerning Otter seaplanes. Released Tuesday, the directive warned of potential […]
Two people were killed when a single-engine airplane crashed and caught fire Thursday at Southern California’s Santa Monica Airport, authorities said. The crash happened on the runway shortly before 5 p.m., according to Sgt. Adam Gwartz with the Santa Monica Police Department. “There was a fire,” Gwartz said. “The plane did not hit any structures.” […]
DEWITT TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Federal investigators blame pilot error and an overloaded aircraft for a 2019 plane crash near a Michigan airport that killed five Indiana men and seriously injured a sixth person aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board said in its final report on the Oct. 3, 2019, crash that the pilot failed to maintain airspeed […]
HELSINKI—Human remains and debris have been found in the Baltic Sea during a search operation off Latvia’s coast where a private jet crashed in mysterious circumstances, likely killing all four occupants. Lt. Cmdr. Peteris Subbota, head of the Latvian military’s Marine Search and Rescue Coordination Centre, told The Associated Press that “remains of human bodies […]
WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash.—The 10 people killed in a floatplane crash in the waters of Puget Sound over the weekend have been identified. The U.S. Coast Guard released the names of the crash victims early Tuesday. The body of one of the dead was recovered by a good Samaritan after Sunday afternoon’s crash. The other nine […]
