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No significant result found in 2nd-day search for missing QZ8501: official

​No significant result has been found in the second-day search for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 Flight on Monday, said spokesperson Sutono for Indonesia's center of command for search operations.

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AirAsia plane with 162 people on board loses contact in Indonesia

​The air searching for a missing AirAsia plane suspended on Monday evening due to darkness in the waters near the Bangka Belitung islands and will resume early Monday morning, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said.

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Indonesia resumes search for missing AirAsia plane

Search and rescue operation for an AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday with 162 people on board resumed on Monday morning, rescuer said here.

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Chinese passengers chastised for brawl on Thai flight

In the latest scandal to taint the image of Chinese tourists abroad, four Chinese passengers grabbed headlines for causing chaos on a Thai budget flight, forcing the aircraft to return to Thailand.

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At least 4 killed in small plane crash in U.S. State of Kansas: media

At least four people died after a small plane crashed into a building near an airport in midwestern U.S. State of Kansas on Thursday, U.S. media reported.

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French oil giant Total CEO killed in plane accident

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of French oil giant Total was killed here in a plane accident.

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Ten victims confirmed dead in Colombia plane crash

​All 10 people aboard a plane which crashed Saturday in the Amazon jungle were confirmed dead, local authorities on Sunday.

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Late Brazilian presidential candidate's crashed plane has murky origins

The plane that crashed in mid-August, killing Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, has murky origins, local media sources said on Wednesday.

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Brazilian presidential candidate Campos killed in plane crash

​Eduardo Campos, candidate for the Brazilian presidency, died on Wednesday morning in a plane crash in Santos, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.

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Witnesses recount air crash near Tehran

​Mehdi, a resident living in Azadi town near Tehran, was about to cross the four-lane Tehran-Karaj driveway, when he felt the vibration of a roar overhead as a huge object rammed into a wall across the street.

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48 killed in Taiwan plane crash

Forty-eight people have been confirmed dead and 10 others injured in a plane crash on western Taiwan's Penghu Island, amid stormy weather, authorities confirmed on Thursday.

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48 dead, 10 injured in Taiwan plane crash

Forty-eight people have been confirmed dead and 10 injured in a Taiwan plane crash Wednesday, the airliner  said in a statement Thursday morning.

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1 killed, 2 injured in firing at passenger plane in Pakistan

One female passenger was killed and two crew members injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at a passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) during its landing at the airport of the country's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Tuesday, said a PIA official on Wednesday.

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Pilots' "mismanagement" causes Asiana crash: NTSB investigation

U.S. federal accident investigators on Tuesday concluded that "mismanagement" by the pilots of Asiana Flight 214, including confusion over whether one of the airliner's key controls was maintaining airspeed, caused the plane to crash while landing in San Francisco, California, last year.

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Japan's SDF troops to return home as aerial search for MH370 disbanded

Following a directive issued by the Australian government, Japan's Self-Defense Force (SDF) personnel who were deployed to help search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet were told Monday that their aerial searches have been disbanded.

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Search for Malaysian flight MH370 continues amid marginal weather forecast

About 10 planes and nine ships will search a swathe of the southern Indian Ocean west of Perth on Wednesday in a consistent effort to find the trace of the vanished Malaysian flight MH370.

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Satellite imagery may show part of fuselage, wing of missing MH370: source

Satellite and radar imagery confirmed by Australia's Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as "credible lead" could be parts of the fuselage and wing of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, a U.S. Navy source said here Thursday.