An Airbus 320 plane of German budget airline Germanwings with 150 people on board crashed in southern France on Tuesday while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. No survivors were expected.
Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will be transported to the Netherlands this coming week and stored and investigated at the Gilze Rijen Air Base, the Dutch Safety Board stated on Monday.
At least nine people, including two minors, were killed and 11 others injured early Monday when two pickup trucks collided in Mexico's northeast state of San Luis Potosi, official sources said.
A medical helicopter crashed early Saturday several blocks away from a hospital in Wichita Falls in the U.S. state of northern Texas, where it was headed, killing a patient it was transporting from nearby Oklahoma and seriously injuring three other crew members, local media reported.
Parents of victims of Air Algeria's flight AH-5017 crash expressed anger over the manner the company was releasing information about the accident in which no one survived.
Two aircraft carrying remains of victims of MH17 that crashed on July 17 in eastern Ukraine landed Wednesday at Eindhoven Airport, where a group of heartbroken families are waiting.
U.S. President Barack Obama discussed on Monday with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski over phone the situation in Ukraine, the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Wales in September and the crashed Malaysia Airlines MH17, the White House said in a statement.
The former Australian defense force official who led the international search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 arrived in Kiev on Monday to lead a 45-man Australian team, which will inspect the MH17 crash site.
At least four people have been confirmed dead, with one wounded, in a South Korean helicopter crash that occurred in the country's southern city on Thursday morning, YTN and Yonhap News Agency reported.
Forty-eight people have been confirmed dead and 10 injured in a Taiwan plane crash Wednesday, the airliner said in a statement Thursday morning.
The UN Security Council on Monday approved a resolution demanding safe and unrestricted access to the MH17 crash site, and calling for full cooperation with the international investigation.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is satisfied with recent developments in the handling of the dead bodies of the victims of MH17 crash, he said during a press conference in The Hague on Monday.
Ukrainian rebels cleared the departure on Tuesday of a train loaded with remains of victims in crashed Malaysia Airlines MH 17 while handing over to Malaysian experts black boxes of the flight allegedly shot down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
"There are plane debris and victims' bodies everywhere; it's too horrifying to be described with any words," said Olexandr, a villager living near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed on telephone on Sunday the situation in eastern Ukraine and the inquiry into the Malaysian airliner crash.
There must be a "prompt, full, unimpeded and transparent" international investigation into the crash of doomed Malaysia airliner, U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minster Tony Abbott said in their telephone conversation on Sunday evening.
Malaysia has announced the establishment of a joint investigation team on the MH17 incident, which comprises officials from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Britain and the United States.
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