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  • What to know about the cargo ship Dali, a mid-sized ocean monster that took down a Baltimore bridge

    March 28, 2024 - 6:25 AM

    Here's what to know about the cargo ship Dali that crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse and leaving six bridge construction workers presumed dead.

  • Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say

    March 27, 2024 - 10:49 PM

    BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search efforts had been exhausted.

  • Major Nigerian bank CEO killed in California helicopter crash, WTO says

    February 11, 2024 - 11:37 AM

    BAKER, Calif. - The CEO of one of Nigeria 's largest banks was killed Friday along with his wife and son when a helicopter they were riding in crashed near Interstate 15 in Southern California's Mojave Desert.

  • Airbus, Air France acquitted over 2009 Rio-Paris crash

    April 17, 2023 - 6:35 AM

    PARIS (AP) — A French court on Monday acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris, which killed 228 people and led to lasting changes in aircraft safety measures.

  • One 'black box' found in China Eastern plane crash

    March 23, 2022 - 2:59 AM

    WUZHOU, China (AP) — A Chinese aviation official said Wednesday that one of the two “black box” recorders had been found in severely damaged condition, two days after a China Eastern flight crashed in southern China with 132 people on board.

  • Wallets, IDs but no survivors found in China Eastern crash

    March 22, 2022 - 11:35 AM

    WUZHOU, China (AP) — Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.

  • Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

    January 10, 2021 - 3:51 AM

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital.

  • EU bans Pakistan airline from flying to Europe for 6 months

    June 30, 2020 - 9:08 AM

    ISLAMABAD - The European Union's aviation safety agency said Tuesday that Pakistan’s national airline will not be allowed to fly into Europe for at least six months after the country’s aviation minister revealed last week that nearly a third of Pakistani pilots had cheated on their pilot’s exams.

  • Safety board asks helicopter makers to install 'black boxes'

    June 02, 2020 - 8:46 AM

    Federal safety investigators bypassed aviation regulators on Tuesday and urged leading helicopter manufacturers to install so-called black boxes that would help determine the cause of crashes such as the one that killed former NBA star Kobe Bryant.

  • Experts see holes in international flight security rules, oversight

    January 14, 2020 - 2:55 PM

    MONTREAL - Questions about how and when planes are permitted to fly have been raised in the aftermath of the deadly crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran last week that killed all 176 people on board.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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