Plane crash kills 10 people in Northern Brazil

Rio de Janeiro (Reuters)-Ten people were killed when a single-engine plane they were travelling crashed in the small town of Almeirim in Brazil's North, said the local government, Wednesday (16/3).

According to a report by Xinhua, the plane disappeared from radar screens on Tuesday late at night, but the newly discovered puingnya on Wednesday morning, as the site of the accident in the dense forest. There are no penyintas in the accident, the Government said.

The plane, a single-engined aircraft Embraer 821-Caraja, off-the shelf of Belem, capital of Para State, and had an accident just 20 kilometres from Monte Dourado Airport in the city. The victim's name has not been announced.

The plane, belonging to the Fretax, aircraft rental company transporting nine employees of the engineering company Cesbe to the water power plant Santo Antonio do Finger, which is being built in the State of Amapa, which embraces.

The cause of the accident remains unknown and will be investigated by the Department of aviation, Xinhua said Thursday.

Fretax and Cesbe issued a statement deploring the accident and said they would provide assistance to families of the victims.

Fretax and the pilots have been in good health condition and inspection of the aircraft was done on a regular basis.

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Nine killed in plane crash in Peru

Lima (Reuters)-Nine people were killed, on Wednesday (5/3), in a small plane crash who is hired by a mining company in the North-West part of Peru, local police said.

Everyone on board the plane were killed, and police said the bad weather was the cause of the crash, Xinhua reported.

"Due to bad weather, the plane caught in power lines. There are nine people killed--the pilot, CoPilot and seven people anymore, "said Roger Torres, La Libertad Region police Chief, told local media.

Fragments of the plane were found along a ravine in a highway in the North-West part of Peru.

Seven passengers were workers of a mining company that has Peru gold mine in the area. (C003)

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Simoncelli dies in Sepang crash

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Italian rider Marco Simoncelli has died after a horrific crash at the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang.

The race was stopped on lap two when Simoncelli's bike veered across the track at turn 11 into the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi.

The 24-year-old had his helmet knocked off and was hit by both other riders.

American rider Edwards also fell and dislocated his shoulder - while Simoncelli's fellow Italian Rossi was able to return to the pits.

Simoncelli lay motionless on the track after the impact, while the race was immediately red-flagged.

Medical director Michele Macchiagodena said Simoncelli suffered a "very serious trauma to the head, to the neck and the chest".

At first officials were looking to restart the race before the extent of Simoncelli's injuries became clear.

The race was cancelled amid confusion in the grandstand, with fans throwing bottles to show their initial displeasure.

The death is the first fatality in MotoGP since Japan's Daijiro Katoh died from injuries sustained at the 2003 Japanese GP while, last year, Japan's Shoya Tomizawa died in a similar crash to Simoncelli in a Moto2 race in San Marino.

Simoncelli's death comes a week after British IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon was killed in Las Vegas following a 15-car crash.

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Marco was flamboyant on and off the track. When someone dies, everyone always says they loved life. But he had a very vibrant personality. He already had a huge fanbase around the world, partly down to aggressive riding - but also because he was just a cool guy. He didn't take himself too seriously and would have been a big star for next year.

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BBC MotoGP presenter Matt Roberts said: "Marco lost his helmet in the crash. The officials said that, when the track medics got to him, he was in cardiac arrest. They tried to resuscitate him in the ambulance and the medical centre.

"Both riders collided with him and the impact corresponded to him losing his helmet. The saddest thing is that Valentino [Rossi] and Marco were very close friends.

"Colin [Edwards] has a dislocated shoulder and is in a lot of pain. He and Valentino are absolutely devastated."

A MotoGP statement read: "On Sunday, 23 October, during the MotoGP race at the Sepang International Circuit, San Carlo Honda Gresini's Italian rider Marco Simoncelli suffered a serious accident wherein he sustained critical injuries.

"The race was stopped immediately with the red flag and Simoncelli was transported by ambulance to the circuit medical centre where the medical staff worked to resuscitate him.

"Despite their efforts, Marco sadly succumbed to his injuries at 4.56pm local time [0956 BST].

"Everybody involved in MotoGP extends its deepest condolences to Marco's family, friends and team at this tragic loss."

And Sepang circuit chairman Mokhzani Mahathir added: "This is a one-of-a-kind freak incident where the helmet came off and I am sure FIM [International Federation of Motorcycling] and MotoGP will be looking into this."

Honda rider Simoncelli entered MotoGP for the 2010 season and won his first pole position at the Catalunya race in June this year.

Simoncelli's first podium finish came in the Czech Republic in August when he finished third but he bettered that with a second-place finish at the Australian GP.

World champion Casey Stoner said: "As soon as I saw the footage it just makes you sick inside. Whenever the helmet comes off that's not a good sign."

British MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow tweeted: "RIP Marco Simoncelli! A great rider and all round nice guy. My thoughts are with all his family & friends. I will never forget today."

Australian Formula 1 driver Mark Webber tweeted: "RIP Marco. A special talent that will be missed. Thinking of your loved ones and all the MotoGP paddock."

Major Italian sports events on Sunday observed a minute's silence in memory of Simoncelli, who was a big fan of football club AC Milan.

In their Serie A fixture against Lecce, Milan wore black armbands and came back from three goals behind to win 4-3.

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Five killed in wrong-way crash on Michigan freeway

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n">(Reuters) - A driver going the wrong way on a suburban Detroit freeway early Sunday slammed into another vehicle, and both burst into flames killing all five people involved, Michigan state police said.

The crash on the M-10, also known as The Lodge Freeway, left the northbound lanes shut down for about six hours while police investigated, Michigan State Police Sergeant Nathaniel McQueen said.

One man driving alone in a passenger car was killed as were four people in an SUV, McQueen said.

Authorities had not yet determined which vehicle was traveling the wrong way on the freeway in Southfield, Michigan, McQueen said.

"We don't know at this time if speed or alcohol played a factor," McQueen said, adding that the crash happened at about 4 a.m.

Authorities were waiting for toxicology tests to be completed.

The five people killed were taken to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office. Autopsies were scheduled for Monday.

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Probe finds no U.S. fault in Afghan chopper crash

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U.S. President Barack Obama holds a conference call from Camp David, Maryland, in this August 6, 2011 photo release. A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.

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WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:35pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A military investigation found no U.S. personnel at fault in the August crash of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan that killed all 30 Americans on board, the deadliest incident for U.S. forces in the decade-old war, officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

The investigation, according to an executive summary obtained by Reuters, confirmed that the Taliban fired a rocket-propelled grenade that hit one of the rotary blades and exploded, sending the helicopter plunging to the ground and bursting into flames within seconds.

All eight Afghans on board were also killed.

Contrary to earlier speculation, the American forces -- most of whom were elite Navy SEALs -- were not lured into a trap by the insurgent fighters, the investigation found.

"The shoot down was not the result of a baited ambush but rather the result of the enemy being at a heightened state of alert due to three-and-a-half hours of ongoing coalition air operations," wrote Brigadier General Jeffrey Colt, who led the investigation.

Defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter in depth, said no U.S. personnel would be punished as a result of the investigation, no equipment was found to have malfunctioned and the mission itself -- to go after a high-level Taliban target -- was considered sound.

One U.S. defense official described it as a "tragic incident in the middle of a war zone."

"Even the best executed mission in a conflict can cost lives and that is what we saw," a second U.S. defense official said.

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That is not to say that the investigation into the August 6 incident did not make recommendations. Colt wrote that the planners did not allocate more spy aircraft to support the mission given compressed timing, but noted that "this finding was not a cause of the shoot-down or crash."

The deaths of so many Americans resonated at home in a way that other battlefield incidents have not. Relatives, pastors and friends of the fallen appeared in media, praising the troops fighting a largely unpopular war that has been overshadowed by concerns about the faltering U.S. economy.

The crash initially triggered speculation that perhaps the mission did not justify putting highly trained Navy SEALs at risk or that the slow-moving CH-47 Chinook was not the best aircraft to take them on a mission to a remote valley southwest of Kabul.

Sources familiar with special operations missions had noted that the team could have traveled in a MH-47 helicopter, which is specially equipped for such missions.

But Colt wrote that his investigation showed the "mission and the tactics and resources employed" were consistent with other special operations missions.

The elite forces were deployed after a group of Taliban appeared to be escaping from an ongoing U.S. military operation to go after a high-value target -- Qari Tahir, described as the senior Taliban leader for the Tangi Valley in Wardak province.

As the aircraft approached, "a previously undetected group of suspected Taliban fighters fired two or three RPGs in rapid succession from the tower of a two-story mud-brick building," the report said.

The first RPG missed but the second hit the helicopter, causing it to crash.

"The airframe was immediately engulfed in a large fireball" upon impact in the dry river creek below, it said.

Shortly after the incident, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, defended the decision to send in the SEALs. He said NATO-led forces later killed the Taliban militants responsible for shooting down the helicopter.

(Editing by Bill Trott and Christopher Wilson)

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Indonesia plane in Sumatra crash

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 10:37 GMT A plane carrying 18 people has crashed in a mountainous region of western Indonesia, government officials say.

The Casa C-212 aircraft sent an emergency signal while flying between North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, the transport ministry's Herry Bakti said.

He said it lost touch with air-traffic control and crashed at 1,100m (3,600ft), near the North Sumatran village of Bahorok.

Rescue teams were reportedly being hampered by rain and rough terrain.

"The plane crashed sometime between 7:28 (00:28 GMT) and 8:05 this morning around Bahorok mountain, which is about 36 nautical miles northwest of Medan," Mr Bakti, the ministry's aviation head, told AFP news agency.

The ministry said the craft's wreckage had been spotted during aerial surveillance and its body appeared to be largely intact.

There was no word on the fate of its 14 passengers, including four children, and four crew members.

Indonesia relies heavily on air transport and has a poor aviation safety record.

In May, 27 people died when a passenger plane crashed into the sea off the eastern province of West Papua.

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Pakistan bus crash kills children

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27 September 2011 Last updated at 11:49 GMT The wreckage of the bus crash

At least 26 people, mostly children, have been killed after a bus went off the road and plunged into a ravine in Pakistan, police say.

The bus was carrying students returning from an excursion when the incident happened on a motorway south-east of the capital Islamabad late on Monday.

The police said mechanical failure caused the crash.

Pakistan has one of the world's worst records for traffic accidents, blamed on poor roads and faulty vehicles.

The police said that the bus fell into the ravine after its brakes failed.

The accident happened in Kalar Kahar, Punjab province, about 160km (100 miles) south-east of Islamabad.

Correspondents say that it is one of the steepest parts of Pakistan's only motorway.

Twenty-two of the 26 people killed where students from a private school.

The driver, his assistant and the deputy-headteacher from the school were among the dead, police officer Chaudhry Salim told the AFP news agency.

In June, at least 12 children died after their school bus plunged into a canal in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

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Shanghai 200 injured in train crash

27 September 2011 last updated at 10: 50 GMT went to save fire crews in the underground tunnels, the InjuredA of Shanghai, the back end of an other train, met u-Bahn, injured at least 200 passengers who says train company.

Most injuries were light, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group company said after the incident on the line 10.

It happened after signal failure in a station, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The city has expanded rapidly in recent years the u-Bahn system, and some lines have seen recurring problems.

Tuesday the incident took place close to Yu Yuan Central Shanghai to 14: 51 - about 40 minutes to Shanghai Metro failure at once.

At the time of the crash staff trains manual, Director news agency Reuters reported.

A passenger said, there was a lot of blood in the first car of the train.

Streets around the train station have been cordoned off to allow ambulances through.

A collision between two overground trains in Wenzhou, Eastern China, in July killed 40 people and provoked public outrage over safety standards.

The country's security chief said Ernst design flaws were guilt in this case.

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Nevada air race crash victims mourned in Reno

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RENO, Nev | Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:26pm EDT

RENO, Nev (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners filled an outdoor arboretum at sunset on Sunday for a candlelight memorial tribute to 11 people killed in the crash of a vintage World War Two plane at a Nevada air show over a week ago.

Reno Mayor Bob Cashell presided over the somber, 40-minute service, held on a grassy hill of Idlewild Park near downtown, about 20 miles from the site of the September 16 tragedy, following a symbolic planting of an oak tree in memory of the victims.

"Thank you all for joining us as this community begins its healing process," Cashell told the gathering.

Taking the podium for his own remarks, Governor Brian Sandoval said, "We come together as the Nevada family to grieve our loss."

He was followed by three clergy members who recited brief prayers.

A city spokeswoman, Barbara Dicianno, put the number of attendees at about 500.

The mourners, each given small white candles as they entered the park, huddled on the hill, most of them standing, to form a circle around the speakers and a string quartet that played bits of soft music.

A lone singer performed the national anthem a cappella around the start of the event.

The service climaxed at sunset as a guitarist accompanied another vocalist in a rendition of "Amazing Grace" while the mourners all silently lit their candles, which flickered in a gentle breeze that rustled the surrounding trees.

Displayed beside the podium was a framed artist's rendering of the single-engine plane that crashed, a modified P-51 Mustang, depicted flying through a cloud-blotched sky, with the words, "In memory of Jimmy Leeward" -- in tribute to the pilot who died.

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused Leeward, 74, to lose control of the aircraft while competing at the 48th Annual National Air Championship Races.

The plane plowed into a box-seating area in front of the grandstand, leaving a 3-foot-deep crater in the tarmac. Besides Leeward, 10 people on the ground were killed, and another 66 seriously injured.

Leeward, a Florida-based real estate developer well-known in air racing circles, had flown as a stunt pilot in movies.

Federal safety regulators have said they are examining evidence that a piece of the aircraft broke loose shortly before the plane plunged to the ground. A photograph snapped seconds before the crash appears to show a plane component falling off.

The accident took place a day before another vintage plane crashed in a fireball during an aerobatic demonstration at a West Virginia air show, killing the pilot.

The two incidents have raised new questions about the safety of such events.

A total of 30 people have been killed in the Reno Air Races since they began in 1964, though city officials say this year marked the first spectator deaths.

(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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17 September 2011 Last updated at 21:20 GMT The crowd watched as the plane crashed into the spectator stand - Amateur footage courtesy Casey White
An investigation has been launched after a vintage aeroplane crashed near a grandstand at an air race near Reno, Nevada on Friday.
Nine people were killed, police said on Saturday, including the pilot. Seven died at the scene and two others in hospital. Dozens were also injured.
Organisers said a mechanical fault was probably to blame but were awaiting the results of an official investigation.
The National Transportation Safety Board is carrying out the inquiry.
The vintage World War II-era P-51 Mustang crashed at about 16:30 local time (23:30 GMT) on Friday at the National Championship Air Races.
"Nothing will be off the table when this investigation begins," Mark Rosenker, the former chairman of the transport safety board, told CBS News.
"Clearly, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered," he is quoted by AFP new agency as telling the US news network.
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It's just like a massacre. It's like a bomb went off. There are people lying all over the runway”

End Quote Dr Gerald Lent Eyewitness He added that video footage and communications between the pilot and the control tower would be examined.
'Just pulverized'
The Mustang had not been flying too close to the ground prior to the crash, according to Mike Houghton, head of the Reno Air Racing Association and CEO of the event.
He said that there appeared to be a "problem with the aircraft that caused it to go out of control".
Seven people, including the pilot, died on the tarmac at the race site while two people died later of their injuries in hospital, Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said.
At least six people remained in hospital in a critical condition on Saturday, medical officials said.
"This is a very large incident, probably one of the largest this community has seen in decades," Stephanie Kruse, a spokeswoman for the Regional Emergency Medical Service Authority, told the Associated Press.
The Mustang, named The Galloping Ghost, was flown by well-known racing pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74.
Mr Houghton said that Mr Leeward, from Ocala, Florida, was a property developer who had been racing planes since the mid-1970s.
He said that Mr Leeward's medical records had been "in tip-top condition".
He added that most of Mr Leeward's family had been at Friday's event.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval arrived at the scene and praised the emergency services for their "flawless reaction to what happened".
Mr Leeward's website says he had flown in more than 120 races and had been a movie stunt pilot.
Ronald Sargis, who was sitting in the box-seat area, said spectators could tell the plane was in trouble before it crashed.
"About six or seven boxes down from us, it impacted into the front row," Mr Sargis told KCRA-TV in Sacramento. He added: "It appeared to be just pulverized."
'Horrific tragedy'
The Reno Gazette-Journal website had posted a witness video of the crash from YouTube, but YouTube has now withdrawn it, saying it breached its terms.
Eyewitness Dr Gerald Lent, of Reno, told the newspaper: "It's just like a massacre. It's like a bomb went off. There are people lying all over the runway."
Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued a statement saying he was "deeply saddened" about the tragedy.
"My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost their lives and with those who were wounded in this horrific tragedy," he said.
The National Championship Air Races are held every year in September in Reno.
There have been safety concerns in the past, with four pilots killed in 2007 and 2008.
However, organisers and aviation authorities say they spend months in preparation for the event.

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Drone crash sparks Pakistan fight

  Pakistani troops have battled Taliban fighters for the debris of a US unmanned drone which crashed in a north-western tribal area.

It was not clear whether the unmanned drone had come down because of Taliban fire or due to a technical fault.
The US does not comment on its drone missile programme, which is designed to target insurgents in the area.
It was the second drone crash in a month in Pakistan, although such incidents are rare.
The drone crashed on Saturday night close to Jangara village in South Waziristan, which lies close to the Afghan border.
'Two killed'
The Taliban said they had shot down the unmanned aircraft, but local security officials told AFP news agency it was a result of technical problems.
The debris was first taken by the Taliban, but Pakistani troops were later sent to seize it back, security sources said.
At least two militants were killed in the ensuing firefight, while one soldier was wounded, security sources told Reuters.
North and South Waziristan are regularly targeted by drone missiles.
The US says the region provides sanctuary to al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents who are involved in attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Drone attacks have escalated in the region since President Barack Obama took office in 2008. More than 100 raids were reported in the area last year.
The US does not routinely confirm drone operations, but analysts say only American forces have the capacity to deploy such aircraft in the region.
Pakistan publicly criticises drone attacks, saying they kill innocent civilians and fuel support for militants. But observers say the authorities privately condone the strikes, although there have been recent signs that they want to limit the scope of such attacks.

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