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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicAir crash

Topic: Air crash

Indian aviation has a ‘safety culture’ problem. Airline carriers, training institutes share blame

Analysis shows that in at least 47% of 68 final reports, AAIB finds violations or lapses by operators & makes remarks about them. But they are not always directly linked to accidents.

Bangladesh govt forms 9-member panel to investigate jet crash at Dhaka school

The commission, with military & govt officials, an urban planner & a professor, has 4 weeks to submit a report. It will also review if buildings near the airport, including the school, were legally built.

3 crashes this year, 3 pilots lost. IAF’s Jaguars, long retired everywhere else, back in spotlight

Running on cannibalised spares and plagued by engine issues, the Jaguar continues to plug critical gaps in the Indian Air Force's stretched squadron strength.

Rupani’s death reopens old chapter—wartime shootdown of another Gujarat CM & Pakistani pilot’s apology

Balwantrai Mehta remains the 1st & only Indian politician to have been killed in wartime action in the subcontinent. Incident unfolded during a particularly volatile phase of 1965 war.

South Korea police searches premises of Jeju Air, Muan airport operator after fatal plane crash

Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed from Bangkok for Muan, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport's runway, exploding into flames after hitting an embankment.

More than 50% of 34 IAF plane crashes in 2017-2022 due to human error, says parliamentary report

Former CDS General Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash in December 2021. The IAF’s initial probe had said ‘spatial disorientation’ of pilot was cause behind fatal accident.

President Biden sends condolences to families of US Marines killed in aircraft crash

An MV-22B Osprey aircraft carrying 23 Marines crashed then caught fire on Melville Island, Australia. The Marines were taking part in military exercises.

‘They will tell their stories,’ says father of siblings who survived 5 weeks in Columbia jungle

The children, aged 1 through 13, survived a 1 May plane crash that killed their mother and 2 other adults and were found on Friday after weeks of search operations.

Why the picturesque Nepal is prone to aviation disasters and what challenges do pilots face

A Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed in Pokhara last week killing 68 passengers. For flight operations, Nepal has an almost unrivalled, harsh environment with sudden weather changes.

At least 16 killed in Nepal air crash, says army spokesman

There were 72 people on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, including 2 infants, 4 crew members & 10 foreign nationals, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.