Air crashes

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot has early-stage Alzheimer’s disease

Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger has been a vocal advocate for aviation safety since he landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River in 2009.

Pakistani rescuers find wreckage of lost cargo plane; search on for missing crew

The wreckage of the K2 Airways Cargo Boeing 737, after it was recovered during a search and rescue operation in the Arabian Sea, off Ormara town, on July 8.

Pilot who hit Beijing tower wrote about ending life, says district govt

The 66-year-old man flew a light aircraft into the 528m CITIC Tower in Beijing’s central business district on June 26.

A plane breached Beijing’s tightly controlled airspace and crashed. Why couldn’t it be stopped?

A small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, the CITIC Tower, causing damage to the skyscraper on June 26.

Beijing plane crash casts spotlight on China’s low-altitude flights, exposes safety gaps

Visible damage to the CITIC Tower in Beijing after the crash killed the plane’s pilot and injured 13 other people at the site.

11 killed in skydiving plane crash in north-eastern France

The plane that crashed in Tomblaine, France, on June 28.

Saudi Aramco helicopter crash west of Hormuz kills 14 Saudis

The crash happened near Saudi Aramco’s Ras Natura terminal at Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast.

Pilot killed when small plane crashed into Beijing skyscraper

People point their mobile phones at CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, where damage is visible on a high floor of the exterior in Beijing.

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Oil tanker JORYA sails at the sea near the Omani coast, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 25, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

Small aircraft crashes into Beijing’s tallest building, say witnesses

The CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, where damage is visible on a high floor of the exterior, in Beijing, China on June 26.

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