Tag Archives: Plane Crash

An unoccupied Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus A330-300 crashed nose first into the tarmac this morning at Changi Airport Terminal 3. According to first hand photos, the plane's nose gear had retracted, causing the plane to tilt forward.

The co-pilot of flight Germanwings Flight 4U9525 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing the plane into a mountain, killing all 150 people onboard. French prosecutor Brice Robin also gave other details of the last 10 minutes of the ill fated flight. According to data extracted from the plane's black box, the co-pilot 28 year-old German Andreas Gunter Lubitz, locked his captain out of the cockpit before manually putting the plane on descent.

At approximately 11pm on Wednesday, rescuers successfully salvaged the cockpit from the ill-fated flight GE-235, which crash landed into the Keelung River after a failed liftoff from Taiwan's Songshan Airport. Divers extracted a headless corpse from the mangled cockpi, bringing the total number of dead up to 32. A remaining 11 passengers remain unaccounted for.

Rescuers have pulled 28 passengers from the wreck, 15 of which had been killed in the crash. Many more are feared dead as 30 passengers are still missing. 31 passengers were reported to be from China.

Regional airline TransAsia has crash landed into the Keelung river in Taipei, Taiwan, after a failed liftoff from Taipei Songshan Airport. News media reported that there were 58 people onboard the ATR72-600 when it crashed. The crash has left at least 10 people injured.