About half of the passengers plane were French. An Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff late Wednesday night and then crashed in Mali, a French Ministry of Defense official told Fox News.
At least 47 people were killed on Wednesday when a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on an island off Taiwan while trying to make an emergency landing in the midst of torrential rains from Typhoon Matmo.
Pilots are being blamed for the crash of Asiana Flight 214 that left 3 dead and over 180 injured The plane that crashed in San Francisco in July of 2013 could have been avoided.
A craving for French fries is not the reason why airplane pilot Michael Ray Martin crashed-landed a small plane into a northern Louisiana McDonald's parking lot near the drive-thru on Tuesday.
Each winter Aspen, Colorado attracts the rich and famous to its powdery slopes, but on Sunday afternoon a much more newsworthy and dour event took place.
The Russian aviation industry, with their already poor aviation record, suffered another blow when a Boeing 737 crashed during landing at the Kazan airport about 450 miles east of the capital.
