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A Russian military transport plane has crashed, the latest in a series of disastrous incidents involving high-value aircraft in the midst of the Ukrainian war. The aircraft, an Il-76, had eight crew members and seven passengers aboard when it went down in the Ivanovo region. No information about deaths or suvivors has been provided so far. Ivanovo Governor Stanislav Voskresensky expressed condolences to the families of the victims, confirming that there was no damage on the ground. The Defence Ministry said the crash was likely due to an engine fire during takeoff and dispatched a team of inve...
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An unresponsive business plane that flew over Washington, D.C. on Sunday afternoon forced the U.S. military to send in fighter jets to intercept it. But according to officials, the plane crashed in Virginia. Police stated that first responders reached the plane crash site hours later in the Shenandoah Valley but no survivors were found. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the plane, which had four people on board, took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was supposed to land in Long Island, New York. Strangely, the plane turned around while flying over the island and flew south tow...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of an underwater airplane wreckage is viral with the claim that it is the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which has been been found without a human skeleton despite carrying 239 people on board. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to our fact-check, the viral image shows the wreckage of an abandoned Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane which reportedly sunk in 2019 to be colonised by marine life and attract divers. Furthermore, while there has been reported discovery of marine debris that was linked to the missing MH370 flight, t...
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By Sana Fazili "Planes go up. Planes go down. What planes don't do is vanish off the face of the earth." The recently released Netflix docu-series on the mystery of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared nine years ago tries to unravel the "biggest mystery" in aviation history. The documentary includes interviews of Malaysian officials, family members of passengers on board, journalists and conspiracy theorists. The conspiracy theorists take center-stage in the series as their narrative takes precedence over the official narrative. On March 8, 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 to...
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By Sk Badiruddin Several news outlets used an old image of a plane crash site from Kathmandu, Nepal to report about the flight crash of Yeti Airlines that happened in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15, 2023. BOOM found that the image used by the media outlets is originally from a wreckage site of an aircraft, owned by private firm Sita Air, that happened in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 28, 2012. According to reports, the death toll rose to 68 after a domestic flight owned by Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15. The flight was carrying 72 passengers from Nepal's capital Kathmandu....
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High temperatures in Europe and around the world have been affecting plenty of places, and climate change causing glacial melt in Switzerland allowed a 50-year old crashed plane to finally be recovered. According to Swiss authorities, the plane pieces recovered at a glacier in the Swiss Alps date back to a plane “which crashed at this location on June 30, 1968.” It was reported that the remains of three bodies, belonging to a teacher, medical officer and one of their sons from Zurich, were all found at the crash site too. Heavy melting has caused danger to hiking trails in these glaciers, as r...
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By Srijit Das Old and unrelated photos showing aircraft wreckages are doing the rounds of social media following the tragic Tara Air plane crash Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday. BOOM found that the pictures are old and have no connection with the wreckage of the Tara Airlines plane that crashed in northwestern Nepal. The country has had a long history of deadly air crashes owing to its treacherous terrain, a lack of investment in new aircraft and airport infrastructure and regulatory oversight. According to media reports, the twin-engine aircraft on May 29 took off from from Pok...
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