Plane Crash Archives - The Westside Story

Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft grounded in US, amid public pressure following crashes

Mar 14, 2019

In the wake of two deadly crashes and increasing public pressure, US officials have decided to ban flights by the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, according to The New York Times. Since the crash of Ethiopian Airline...

Russian plane crashes in Black Sea en route to Syria, government sources blame likely technical malfunction

West Side Story

Dec 25, 2016

Science, World

The Kremlin has said that technical problems most likely caused the crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 into the Black Sea on Sunday, after taking off from the coastal town of Sochi. The flight was headed towards Syria, ...

Cause of Germanwings flight 4U-9525 still unknown; unusable data recovered from black box

Cody Gash

Mar 25, 2015

World

The Germanwings aircrash marks another major aviation disaster to have happened within a span of 2 years. It is being said that flight 4U-9525 met the unfortunate event after a steep, sudden drop in the French ...

Ocean divers recover flight data recorder of AirAsia 8501 from Java Sea

Charles Omedo

Jan 12, 2015

World

One of the black boxes of the crashed AirAsia 8501 has been recovered from divers in the Java Sea at a depth of over 100 feet, and officials are positive that given the right weather conditions, the second blac...

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