All news on the topic: Plane crash

Mike Thexton was 27 when, after a summer hiking in the Himalayas, the plane he boarded from Karachi, Pakistan was hijacked by a Palestinian terror cell

The passengers - who were travelling inside Mexico - were aboard a twin-engine Airbus A320 when they watched in horror as the jet's engine exploded while they were flying over the sea yesterday

Ruan Crighton from Brentwood, Essex, was one of 72 people on board the Yeti Airlines Flight 691 from Nepalese capital Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara when it crashed

Cedric Bonin, 32, referred to as an Air France "company baby" due to his junior positions, was the least experienced of the three pilots, but was forced to fly the enormous Airbus 330 through a tropical storm producing crashing thunderstorms

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

A small plane was seen descending and crashing into the sea off the coast of Mexico killing a two-year-old child and the pilot who are believed to have been trapped inside while four others were rushed to hospital

The four - including associate director at aerospace giant Raytheon, William 'Jeff' Lumpkin - had flown from St. Petersburg, Florida, to meet friends at a local restaurant on Venice Pier before getting back in the plane to fly home - but it tragically plunged into the ocean shortly after take off

Two married couples from Indiana flew to Venice, Florida, to meet some friends and eat dinner at a local restaurant but shortly after the foursome - including an associate director at aerospace giant Raytheon - took off their plane crashed about half a mile offshore

One aeroplane pilot involved in the near-miss above Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm claimed the other plane was 'looking to manoeuvre over a noteworthy property'

An enormous search started this morning as 600 people scoured the waters off the tourist town for the missing fifth victim and the black box - which carries hours of cockpit conversation and flight data.

Metropolitan Police and London ambulance crews were called to Damyns Hall air field in Upminster after a plane crashed shortly after take-off at Tuesday lunchtime

Jake Elven was on his second lesson learning how to fly when his plane started plummeting to the ground over The Oaks, near Camden in Sydney's southwest, Australia

A man aboard a flight by Delta airlines bound for Seattle got up and furiously jumped off the emergency door as the plane was taking off from Los Angeles International Airport

Cyndi Hendry was scouring the South China Sea when she discovered a piece of wreckage that looked eerily similar to a part of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without a trace in March 2014

Two small planes collided mid-air and plunged into Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, Florida, US, on Tuesday. One person was confirmed dead, however, it is not known yet how many people were on board the planes

The Bombardier CL30 jet had to be diverted to Bradley International Airport airport in Connecticut, US, at around 4pm on Friday afternoon after "encountering severe turbulence"

Care Flight were transferring a patient along with a pilot, flight nurse, paramedic and a patient's family member when the aircraft vanished from flight radar near Stagecoach, Nevada, US

Care Flight were transferring a patient in Nevada, US, along with a pilot, flight nurse, paramedic and a patient's family member when the air ambulance crashed near Stagecoach

Preliminary reports suggest the aircraft in question was a Su-25 and emergency services are working at the crash site in Russia where the pilot ejected and survived

A under-the-cosh husband has expressed his dismay at receiving the cold shoulder from his annoyed wife, who has been scared of flying since uncle was in a plane crash

The plane was bound for the Philippines' capital Manila, but vanished after taking off on Saturday morning with two Filipino pilots and two Australian passengers on board

The plane fell out the sky a few minutes after take off from the San Francisco region of Guatemala, crashing down into a field before the wreckage was engulfed in flame

Passengers onboard United Airlines Flight 1722 from Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii to San Francisco, US, were left terrified after the aircraft dropped just 71 seconds into the flight

Emergency services were called to Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening after an American Airlines plane collided with a shuttle bus transporting passengers between terminals

Ten fire brigades were sent to tackle the blaze, and there was a call for reinforcements amid a "difficult situation" at a giant Lukoil installation near Nizhny Novgorod, some 300 miles east of Moscow in Russia