LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWRANGERS)-A Brazilian air force officer travelling with President Jair Bolsonaro’s G20 team has been arrested after being caught with 39 kilograms of cocaine. The officer was detained in Seville, Spain, when the back-up plane travelling to Osaka made a stop-over, a statement released by the Brazilian defence ministry said. It said: “The…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Canadian man has died after his parachute failed to open when he jumped out of a plane during a military exercise led by US forces in Bulgaria, local media reported on Tuesday. Three soldiers, reportedly US citizens, were also injured during the exercise overnight to Tuesday, dubbed Swift Response 2019, according…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Boeing’s 737 Max line of aircraft is grounded indefinitely as the company and safety officials attempt to figure out why two of the popular new planes have crashed within a year of each other. But with the planes not ferrying passengers anytime soon, airlines have to store them somewhere, which means they…
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 SPTEMBER18TH (NEWRANGERS)-A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean early Tuesday, killing all 15 people on board, the Russian defense ministry said. It blamed Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught in the crossfire as four Israeli fighters attacked targets in northwestern Syria. The Russian military…
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…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s official team narrowly escaped death as their plane caught fire in midair while travelling to their next World Cup match. Flames were seen from the engine as the Russian Airlines Airbus was en route to Rostov where they take on Uruguay on Wednesday. An official statement from the football association…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s Aviation Minister Cecelia Dapaah has warned British Airways (BA) it could face sanctions, after reports of bed bugs on some of the airline’s flights into the country. A British newspaper reported this week that a BA flight to Accra was grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport for four hours, after the insects…