LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zambia Vice President Mutale Nalumango escaped unhurt on Thursday when a military helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff during a campaign tour in Nakonde, ahead of next month’s general election. The Zambia Air Force aircraft went down within moments of leaving a rally venue in Nakonde District, Muchinga Province, where Nalumango had addressed…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six people were injured Sunday when a skydiving plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in Tennessee. The twin-engine plane went down soon after taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport at 12:30 p.m., officials said in a Sunday evening briefing. It landed in a grassy area near the airport, next to the…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested for opening the emergency door of an Asiana Airlines flight as it was landing in South Korea. All 194 passengers survived the flight, which landed safely but with its door still open at Daegu International Airport on Friday. Some passengers fainted while others had breathing problems and…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Christian Eriksen probably suffered a cardiac arrest but staged a remarkable recovery, according to his former cardiologist at Tottenham Hotspur. Professor Sanjay Sharma, who put the former Tottenham midfielder through an annual battery of tests between 2013 and 2020, said Eriksen had no known history of heart problems – but that no…
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…