LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Colombian children who were missing for six weeks alone in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash have been found alive – and malnourished but otherwise healthy. The siblings, Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, Tien Noriel, four, and baby Cristin who had his first birthday while lost in the jungle, had been…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people in their early 30s aboard a small airplane died when the Cessna crashed into a home in Minnesota late Saturday. Federal and local authorities in Minnesota are investigating the scene in Hermantown, which is located just west of Duluth and about 150 miles north of Minneapolis. Officials described the victims…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane conveying 11 persons crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The country’s transport minister, Ernest Ngalle Bibehe, said in a statement that air traffic services lost radio contact with an aircraft that left the Nsimalen airport in Yaounde. According to CNA the radio signal was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A private jet carrying 21 people crashed and burst into flames Tuesday while attempting to take off from a Houston airport – but, miraculously, only two people were reported injured. The twin-engine MD-87 rolled through a fence and ignited in a field at Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire, about 28 miles from the city, about 10 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire, Dan Petrescu, crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported. The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) headed…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-US actor Joe Lara, best known for playing Tarzan, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Tennessee. The 58-year-old is among seven people believed killed when a light aircraft crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna on Saturday. His dietician wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a weight-loss church,…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by military spokesperson Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu. Major General Yahaya replaces Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash last Friday. Prior to his appointment,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has sympathised with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and families that lost their loved ones in Sunday’s crash of a military aircraft that claimed the lives of seven people. NAF had confirmed later yesterday that seven…