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Topic: plane crash

With 27 crashes in 3 decades, why Nepal carriers have been banned from EU airspace for last 10 yrs

The Sunday crash, which claimed lives of at least 68 of 72 passengers onboard, has brought the Nepalese aviation sector's safety issues back into focus.

Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers

Difficult terrain & inclement weather was hampering rescue efforts near Pokhara, where the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed on Sunday just before landing.

Plane crash mysteries spur renewed calls for cockpit cameras

The push is reigniting a standoff between pilots who guard their privacy, and crash specialists that are under pressure to solve mystery accidents & prevent them from happening again.

Bad terrain, lack of sophisticated radar tech — why small planes have poor safety record in Nepal

An aircraft carrying 22 people including 4 Indians has gone missing in Nepal’s Mustang district. The Himalayan country has seen 27 fatal plane crashes in three decades.

One ‘severely damaged’ black box of crashed China Eastern jet found, say officials

Rescue operations were stopped Wednesday due to bad weather; relatives of the dead gather in a nearby village.

Chinese jet’s fatal dive took it near speed of sound before crash

The Boeing 737-800 was knifing through the air at more than 966 kms/hour, and at times may have exceeded 1126 kms/hour, according to data from Flightradar24, a website that tracks planes.

China’s worst air tragedy in a decade fuels conspiracy theories, claims of US involvement

The MU5735 crash that killed 132 Chinese is a tragedy, but there is no end to conspiracy theories in a world rife with disinformation. Weibo is replete with them.

Boeing 737 that crashed in China has good safety record, unlike the Max

The six-year-old single-aisle jet is part of the NG, or Next Generation, era that preceded the 737 Max, which was subjected to a global grounding after two deadly crashes.

China plane crash: Radar tracking shows aircraft was ‘descending steeply’

The China Eastern crash comes at a bad time for Boeing, which is preparing for the re-entry of its 737 Max into commercial service in the country.

Chinese passenger plane with 132 on board crashes in Guangxi region

Rescue teams have been rushed and casualties are immediately not known.

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No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.