Accidents, Airplane Crashes | featured news

A cargo jet slammed into a minibus at Ghana's Accra airport on Saturday after overshooting the runway on landing, killing at least 10 people, according to a Reuters witness and an aviation official.

The global accident rate for January through November was 22% better than a year earlier.

"Mass casualties" were reported at an air show after a plane slammed into the box seat area in front of a grandstand at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno on Friday, a spokesman for the show told CNN.

A small plane carrying all three teachers for a remote Alaska village crashed in wilderness terrain, killing the pilot and one of the teachers, a school official said Sunday.

A small plane crashed into a central California hospital's unoccupied office building and burst into flames just after takeoff.

An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a residential area in east Java early Wednesday, killing 97 people, military officials said.