Day: December 16, 2022

Gerard Butler has been the go-to actor for those cheesy action films, and his newest project appears to be no different. In the aptly named Plane, Butler stars as Captain Brodie Torrence, a commercial pilot who is forced to land on an island in the Philippines after a storm nearly takes down his aircraft. Soon after,

A search by air and sea is continuing for a medical transport plane that crashed off Maui with three people onboard.

A medical transport plane with three crew members on board has gone missing in Hawaii on a flight…

Search underway for medical transport plane that crashed off Hawaii coast

Paul’s accident injuries had been labelled as status 1, which is an immediate life threat,

The Coast Guard said the life plane with three crew members went down when it was flying from Maui to the big island.

“From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help,” she wrote.

Inquest into deaths of RAF men, 76 years ago, hears of a weapons exercise involving a prototype bouncing bomb

Ninety seconds, that’s how long the Federal Aviation Administration says it takes for passengers and crew to evacuate an airplane safely, but not everyone is convinced.

The Air Force is investigating how one of its KC-135s appeared on a flight tracker with the call sign.

A small plane that crashed Tuesday has claimed the life of a Georgia man.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people on December 16 were awarded a prize that the German city of Aachen gives for contributions to European unity.

Insurers may refuse to cover planes flying to Ukraine or ships sailing through the Black Sea as reinsurers – who insure the insurers – propose excluding the region from policies from next month, four industry sources said. Reinsurers typically renew their 12-month contracts with insurance clients on Jan. 1, meaning they have the first opportunity to scale back exposure since the war in Ukraine started, after being hit this year by losses related to the conflict and from Hurricane Ian in Florida. A proposed contract clause being circulated by reinsurers excludes war-related claims for planes or ships in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, the four sources told Reuters.

Croatian lawmakers on December 16 rejected a proposal for Croatia to join an EU mission in support of the Ukrainian military.

The Transport Safety Board of Canada is investigating the incident and says it involved a Falcon 20 aircraft registered to Ameristar Jet Charter.

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner said on December 16 in her first remarks since being released from a Russian prison that it was “so good to be home” and vowed to play for her professional team, the Phoenix Mercury, in the upcoming season.

Russia carried out its newest wave of attacks against Ukraine on Friday, with preliminary reports indicating 76 Russian missile launches.

Moscow municipal lawmaker Aleksei Gorinov, who was handed a prison term in July for his stance against Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, has been transferred to a prison infirmary for unspecified health problems, the politician’s supporters said on Telegram on December 16.

A video of the incident shows the military aircraft taking off and hovering, then later trying to land for a second before tipping forward on its nose and skidding on the runway. The plane then made a spin of nearly 180 degrees before the pilot ejects from the jet.

Two people avoided serious injury in a helicopter crash Wednesday afternoon at Durango-La Plata County Airport.
The crash occurred at 1:14 p.m. on the north end of the runway, said Tony Vicari, direct…

Former Nebraska Cornhuskers football coach Scott Frost is returning to the sidelines on Saturday. While I’ve talked about the fact that Frost would coach a…

The European Union said on December 16 that its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia’s military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children.