Passengers heard a loud explosion, and saw smoke from the right engine. Apparently the engine doors blew off.

During takeoff, the casing of the left engine ‘came away’ and the right engine exploded when the plane made a quick return, landing in London.

Good thing that Emergency services were on standby to extinguish the engine fire.

Passengers and crew made an emergency evacuation via emergency slides.

None of the 5 crew and 75 passengers were injured.

The ABC News video below suggests a birdstrike that is purely speculative

The Lucas Oil Products-owned helicopter was located crashed, and two people died in the crash.

The NTSB will arrive on site Sunday to begin the investigation. The pilot was flying passenger 21-yearold Missouri State University student Catalina Richard around the perimeter of a Lucas Oil Speedway event. The pilot’s name has hot been released as of this posting.

The helicopter crashed in rural Cross Timbers Missouri.

Divers were scheduled to search daylight on the 25th. The bodies of a man and a woman, believed to be the two passengers were recovered. The search for the pilot’s body is ongoing.

The plane circled the area once, then witnesses say they heard a struggling engine and a backfire, then saw the plane “flipping through the air” with pieces of the plane falling from the sky.

Angel Flight teams provide free air transportation and medical care.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

Mr. Mohammad Shafqat and Ms. Ammara Ashraf had been fighting with eight family members, and when the argument escalated, the two were taken into custody and then released.

During the domestic fight, two men who approached the cockpit were also arrested aboard the plane, handcuffed, and taken into custody to the police station at Stansted. The case is being treated as a criminal rather than terror case.

There were 11 crew and 297 passengers aboard.

Although the Pakistani High Commission blames the pilot for making a decision that puts PIA in a bad light, we believe that the fact that because Captain Sufi landed the plane without injury or loss of life, then he made the right decision.

There were three passengers from Spain aboard–22 and 26 year old men and a 36 year old woman–and the pilot; only the 22 year old Argentinean pilot survived. The pilot was badly injured.

The plane normally offered tourists flights around the Balearic Islands.

The accident is under investigation

An Embraer EMB-721C Sertanejo (PA-32R-300) en route from Prado to Porto Seguro had a little trouble on landing when the nose gear folded.

The friction from the belly landing was controlled by foam applied by the firefighters who were on standby when the flight landed. Actually, you can see they were there ahead of time, and how they used the time while the pilots were burning off fuel.

Pilots were aware of the inability of the gear to lock, so they burned off fuel before making the landing.

The plane is normally used as an air taxi. The video below shows the plane landing on foam.

No injuries. Good job, Captain!

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Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. It’s time honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country, to gather together, to remember the ones who need remembering, to thank the ones who need thanking, and to pull out the barbecue tongs and feed everybody else.
May 27, 2013

“The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.”
Thucydides

Everyone aboard the helicopter died in the crash: pilot, co-pilot, a technician and two soldiers of the Police Tactical Group.

Before the accident, there was low visibility produced by a early morning fog; afterwards, heavy clouds of smoke blanketed the area.

Police successfully rescued the kidnapped engineers. The kidnapper did not survive.

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On May 21, 2013, a Copa Airlines Boeing 737-7V3 a flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador landed in the rain at Tocumen International Airport in Panama.

The plane skidded off the runway, and sustained damage getting mired in soft ground.

Engine 2 sustained damage as the right engine impacted soft ground

The plane was towed to the gate.

107 passengers were aboard the flight, and none of them were seriously injured, according to paramedic teams that responded to the accident. The incident also caused delays at the airport, forcing at least one flight to divert to another airport.

Three crew and ten passengers were injured by turbulence over the Nicobar Islands.

The pilots diverted to Singapore where they made a safe landing with 374 passengers aboard. The injured were hospitalized.

The pilots arrived in Jakarta twenty hours late, after the unexpected stop-over.

The injured were provided alternative flights.