LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)– China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday as witnesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines plane before it crashed killing 157 people. The disaster came just months after a jet of the same model came down in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Air Force has confirmed the death of one of the pilots in the two ill fated F-7Ni jets that crashed in Abuja, on Thursday. A statement by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force said “It is with a heavy heart that I regretfully…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Air Niugini plane hit the water short of the runway while trying to land at Chuuk Island in the Federated States of Micronesia on Friday morning. Striking footage from the scene shows people being rescued in boats from the half-submerged plane, in images reminiscent of the 2009 crash-landing in New York…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NESRANGERS)-An Aeromexico jet crashed in while taking off in the Mexican state of Durango on Tuesday and officials said that everyone aboard survived the wreckage. The Embraer 190 aircraft with a capacity of 100 passengers went down during a hail storm on the route from Durango to Mexico City, Aeromexico said in…