LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eleven people have died after a civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in the town of Tomblaine in eastern France, local officials said. The pilot and all 10 passengers were killed, including five instructors and five people who were preparing to skydive for the first time. The plane, which was being used…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major update has been issued following the plane crash into the sea in Majorca on Saturday (August 2) evening. An emergency response got underway after the incident at sea was reported at 8.20pm near Cap Gros, between Soller and Deia. The two-seater biplane took off from the Binissalem aerodrome at around 6pm…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials say a plane made an emergency landing on a golf course in upstate South Carolina on Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration said a Piper PA-46 made an emergency landing on the course at the Reserve at Lake Keowee around 11:50 a.m. Old Edwards Reserve at Lake Keowee said the plane was…
LAGOS APRIL 11H (NEWSRANGERS)-A family’s afternoon sightseeing excursion above the misty shoreline of Manhattan ended in tragedy Thursday after the helicopter carrying them crashed off the New Jersey shoreline, killing them and the pilot. Spectators watched the helicopter as it dropped from the sky and slammed into the river upside down as fluttering debris landed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from Iran died in a gyroplane helicopter accident near Sirkan, a city in Sistan-Baluchistan province in Iran, on Monday, November 4, 2024. One of the deceased victims mentioned in the Fars News Agency report is Brigadier General Hamid Mazandarani, commander of Brigade Nineveh….
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For many people, flying is a very exciting and new world experience. People love the feeling of flying in the sky, and it has become a part of their everyday life. But have you ever wondered what would happen if the roof of the plane suddenly flies off at a height of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Captain Nuhu Haruna for an alleged criminal breach of trust to the tune of N1,020,000.000 (One Billion, Twenty Million Naira only) The suspect was arrested when a petitioner alleged that sometime in December 2023, he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane on Thursday landed on cracking ice on a notorious Russian river due to a pilot’s mistake. Thirty passengers and four crew were safely evacuated on foot from the Polar Airlines An-24 propeller plane in Yakutia, Siberia‘s coldest region. The pilot mistook the frozen Kolyma River for a small landing strip…