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…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A man has died and another has been rushed to the hospital with ‘serious injuries’ after a small plane crashed on a residential street in Massachusetts. Officials said a single-engine Mooney M20F aircraft hit the ground on Sam Fonzo Drive in Beverly, on the north-east outskirts of Boston, just before 9am…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A helicopter carrying Hindu pilgrims has crashed in India, killing seven people on board. The accident happened within minutes of the helicopter taking off, officials said, on what should have been a 10-minute flight. The helicopter was flying to Guptkashi, a prominent Hindu pilgrimage site in the Himalayas, from Kedarnath temple town…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS0-A plane crashed into the sea seconds after taking off from the Honduran island of Roatán, killing at least 12 people, including the musician Aurelio Martínez Suazo, according to reports. The Honduran fire service said five people survived but one was still missing. The service noted bad weather and low visibility in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot (gantry) price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly referred to as petrol, by N65.00, from N890 to N825 per litre, effective from 27th February 2025. Under the new arrangement, buyers in Lagos would purchase fuel at N860 per litre at MRS outlets….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Only one person has survived a plane crash in South Sudan, which killed 20 oil workers who were on board, the government said. The plane, which was heading to the capital, Juba, crashed three minutes after take-near the oil fields in Unity State on Wednesday morning, said Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol….