BREAKING News: Dana Airline Plane Skids Off Port Harcourt Runway, Aircraft Wing Damaged

   

A major tragedy has been averted in Nigeria as a passenger plane belonging to Dana Airlines skid off the runway of the Port Harcourt International Airport as it was landing at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.

According to an eyewitness, Layefa Walter, a Port Harcourt based oil worker, the flight skid off the runway and a wing of the airplane was damaged.



“Several people were injured. But it looks like nobody has died,” Mr. Walter told The Trent in a telephone conversation.
“Flights have been placed on hold, as we speak,” he said. “We are concerned whether Air France will be cleared to land.”

San Francisco tour bus crashes, injuring 20 people

What began as a serene tour through one of the nation’s most picturesque cities turned into a two-block ride of terror when an open-air tour bus careened wildly out of control in San Francisco’s Union Square, running down a bicyclist, striking two pedestrians and smashing into several moving cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site.

Twenty people were hurt, six critically, when the big blue bus with at least 30 people aboard raced through one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations Friday afternoon, leaving chaos and carnage in its wake.

“Everybody was asking what’s going on,” said Bay Area resident Hoda Emam, who rounded a corner leading into Union Square moments after the bus struck the scaffolding, bringing it down in a twisted heap of metal and other debris.

She saw paramedics sprinting toward the injured while emergency vehicles pulled up with their sirens blaring.

51 die as TransAsia Airways crash lands in Taiwan

Over 50 people have been reported dead after a TransAsia Airways passenger plane crashed on one of Taiwan's Penghu islands today Wednesday July 23rd. 

According to Taiwan's Central News Agency, at least 9 other people were injured in the crash of the twin-engine turboprop plane, which happened outside Magong airport at about 7 p.m local time.

The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known but the region is currently dealing with powerful typhoon.

Two Dead As Nigerian Military Jet Crashes In Niger

A Nigerian fighter jet taking part in military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in western Niger, killing its two crew, Niger and Nigerian officials said on Monday.
The incident marked the first casualties in Mali for Nigerian troops, which form the largest contingent in a West African regional force participating in the French-led campaign to drive Islamist rebels from the country's desert north.

Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force, said the plane was an Alpha jet stationed in Niger as part of a Nigerian squadron supporting the mission in Mali.
"An investigation is going on to find out what happened. They were on a normal routine flight about 60 km (37 miles) west of Niamey when something happened," Anas told Reuters.
Asked if there was any evidence of anti-aircraft fire, he said: "We don't know but it was inside Nigerien territory."

A Niger security source said the jet crashed near Dargol in the Tillabery region which borders Mali.
"The plane was not shot at. It was not in enemy territory so for now we are looking at maybe a mechanical problem," another security official from Niger, who asked not to be identified, said.

PHOTOS- Helicopter Crashes In Central London Today

A helicopter has crashed into a crane in Vauxhall, south London, plummeting into the ground and sending a thickcolumn of smoke into the air.

The crash involved two cars and an unknown number of people, London Fire Service said.

The helicopter is believed to have plummeted straight into the ground just off a main road. Flames and a hugecolumn of black smoke could be seen near the River Thames.


Witnesses said at least six or seven fire engines are at the scene.

A spokesman for London Fire Brigade was unable to give details but said: "We are taking lots of emergency calls at the moment."

A Met police spokesman said: "We had a call at approximately 8am this morning and we are dealing with an incident."

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