GenevaLunch » plane crash http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Series of near-misses over Hong Kong: “Like a bad horror movie” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/28/series-of-near-misses-over-hong-kong-like-a-bad-horror-movie/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/28/series-of-near-misses-over-hong-kong-like-a-bad-horror-movie/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:48:32 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61933 GenevaLunch.com HONG KONG – Air traffic over Hong Kong on 18 September was “like a bad horror movie,” said an air traffic controller at Hong Kong’s airport. Originally, one near-miss was reported on 18 September, however, an exclusive news report by the The Standard of Hong Kong reveals that a series of near-misses took place over [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/28/series-of-near-misses-over-hong-kong-like-a-bad-horror-movie/feed/ 0 TV documentary says Swissair 111 crash could have been “murder” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:45:50 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61615 GenevaLunch.com CANADA – New allegations by Tom Juby an investigator who looked into the fatal crash of Swissair Flight 111 in the coast of Canada, argue that the fire in the doomed plane could have been caused by an incendiary device, and that a “homicide investigation should have taken place.” The controversial allegations are made on [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/feed/ 1 Military plane crash kills 78 in Morocco http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:13:32 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=60204 GenevaLunch.com MOROCCO – At least 78 people were killed when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, said the state news agency, MAP. “Seventy-eight people were killed, and three were seriously injured following a crash, on Tuesday, of a C-130 aircraft of the Royal Armed [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/feed/ 0 UN plane crash in Congo: one survivor out of 33 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/05/un-plane-crash-in-congo-one-survivor-out-of-33/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/05/un-plane-crash-in-congo-one-survivor-out-of-33/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:52:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56107 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Thirty-two of the 33 passengers and crew on a United Nations plane died when it crashed while trying to land at the Kinshasa Airport in DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) Monday afternoon 4 April. The plane was carrying UN staff, most but not whom all of worked for Monusco, the UN’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/05/un-plane-crash-in-congo-one-survivor-out-of-33/feed/ 0 Former Alaska senator, four others, die in plane crash in the US http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/11/former-alaska-senator-four-others-die-in-plane-crash-in-the-us/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/11/former-alaska-senator-four-others-die-in-plane-crash-in-the-us/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:35:55 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=45830 GenevaLunch.com Former US Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and four others died after their amphibious plane crashed during a fishing trip in Alaska. The survivors spend the night stranded on a rocky slope. The former head of NASA, Sean O’Keefe and his teenage son survived the fatal accident. A 13-year-old boy also survived but had to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/11/former-alaska-senator-four-others-die-in-plane-crash-in-the-us/feed/ 0 Suicide pilot flies into IRS building in Texas http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/19/suicide-pilot-flies-into-irs-building-in-texas/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/19/suicide-pilot-flies-into-irs-building-in-texas/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:46:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=37411 GenevaLunch.com Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, appears to have flown his Piper Cherokee plane into an IRS (tax authority) building in Austin, Texas intentionally, say authorities in the city, after setting his house on fire 18 February. Two people died in the crash into a building where 200 people work, and two others were injured. Firefighters had [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/19/suicide-pilot-flies-into-irs-building-in-texas/feed/ 0 Debris taken from sea was not from Air France jet http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/05/debris-taken-from-sea-was-not-from-air-france-jet/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/05/debris-taken-from-sea-was-not-from-air-france-jet/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:37:33 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=19397 GenevaLunch.com The Brazilian air force announced last night 4 June that the debris it had recovered from the sea near the presumed crash site of the Air France Airbus A330 was not in fact from the stricken jet. Referring to a wooden pallet, General Ramon Borges Cardoso, the air force spokesman, said it did not come [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/05/debris-taken-from-sea-was-not-from-air-france-jet/feed/ 0 Six Swiss in missing Air France plane http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/six-swiss-citizens-in-missing-air-france-plane/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/six-swiss-citizens-in-missing-air-france-plane/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:09 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=19087 GenevaLunch.com Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – Air France officials have confirmed that six Swiss nationals are among the passengers of the missing flight from Brazil to France. Most of the 228 persons on board were French and Brazilian with 61 and  58 passengers respectively.  Debris has been found off the coast of Senegal although it has not been [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/six-swiss-citizens-in-missing-air-france-plane/feed/ 0 Ski vacation plane carrying school children crashes in Montana, USA, killing 17 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/23/ski-vacation-plane-carrying-school-children-crashes-in-montana-usa-killing-17/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/23/ski-vacation-plane-carrying-school-children-crashes-in-montana-usa-killing-17/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:11:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14182 GenevaLunch.com An airplane carrying children from California to a ski vacation in Butte, Montana, crashed Sunday as it neared the airport, apparently killing all 17 aboard. Reuters

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/23/ski-vacation-plane-carrying-school-children-crashes-in-montana-usa-killing-17/feed/ 1 New York state plane crashes into house, 49 dead http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/02/13/new-york-state-plane-crashes-into-house-49-dead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/02/13/new-york-state-plane-crashes-into-house-49-dead/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:41:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=12111 GenevaLunch.com A Continental Airlines connecting flight operated by Colgan Air, flying from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, crashed into a house five miles short of the runway, killing one person on the ground and all 48 aboard the plane. The cause of the crash is not yet known but several witnesses said they saw [...]

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