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Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan. Photo: Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu via Getty Images

Passengers aboard Azerbaijani flight report ‘loud bangs’ before crash landing

Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan have told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia.

38 were killed when Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432 crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Photo: Issa Tazhenbayev/Anadolu/Getty Images

UPDATE: Preliminary probe suggests Russian missile downed Azerbaijani plane

38 were killed when Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432 crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

The DHL cargo plane crashed as it prepared to land in the Lithuanian capital on Monday.

Flight voice recording shows no signs of trouble before doomed Vilnius flight

A flight recording from the ill-fated Boeing 737-400, which crashed as it tried to land at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania on Monday, reveals that the pilots seemed completely oblivious to the impending doom.

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Russian bomber crashes in Caucasus, killing all crew members

A Russian Su-34 bomber crashed during a routine training flight in the Caucasus mountains, resulting in the deaths of the crew, according to reports from Russian news agencies on Tuesday.

Photo: PAP/Łukasz Gągulski, PAP/Radek Pietruszka

Polish president, PM to fly to U.S. on separate aircraft: former security officer

Polish President Andrzej Duda and PM Donald Tusk will fly to the U.S. in separate planes due to security measures, said Stanisław Koziej, the former head of the National Security Bureau (BBN).

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Ukraine’s military downs Russian surveillance plane: official

Ukraine’s military on Friday destroyed a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said, the second time in a little more than a month that Ukraine has reported downing the sophisticated plane.