LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau on Tuesday confirmed an accident involving a Cessna 172 aircraft operated by Skypower Express at Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, Imo State. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the bureau’s Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, Mrs. Bimbo Oladeji. PUNCH Online gathered…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A private jet has crashed in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing, killing at least seven people. The accident took place in San Mateo Atenco, an industrial area 5 kilometres from the Toluca airport, about 50 kilometres west of Mexico City on Monday, local time. The plane had taken…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rescue teams have raced to the scene after a Turkish military cargo aircraft crashed in Georgia. The C130 plane plummeted to the ground at the Georgia-Azerbaijan border, according to officials. The Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Defence wrote on X: “One of our C130 military cargo aircraft, which was taking off…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least seven people were killed after a United Parcel Service cargo plane was involved in a “catastrophic crash” near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said. The death toll is likely to grow, Beshear said late Tuesday. He added that first responders were on-site and “working…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 22 persons lost their lives while 20 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a lone accident involving a trailer along the Lapai–Lambata road in Niger State on Monday. SaharaReporters gathered that the vehicle was said to be heading to Lagos from Kano, was reportedly conveying both passengers and…
Russian officials say 48 people were killed when an Angara Airlines plane went down in a dense forest in the far-eastern Amur region. The Antonov An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said. A…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 20 people died and more than 170 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage from Milestone School and College in the suburb of Uttara showed a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter used by an African Union peacekeeping mission has crashed at the international airport in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing five passengers, a Ugandan military spokesperson said. Another three of the helicopter’s eight occupants survived the incident on Wednesday but with severe injuries and burns, said the spokesperson, Felix Kulayigye. The…