#PLANE CRASH

At least 179 people were killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea's Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said.

Azerbaijan’s President said on Sunday that the passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan killing 38 people had been damaged due to shooting from the ground in Russia, Azerbaijan state television reported.

A passenger plane plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Kazakh authorities announced.

Vilnius Airport authorities reported the facility would close for an hour on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into Monday’s fatal air crash.

A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came in to land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport early on Monday morning, killing one person in the aircraft and flinging debris that damaged a house which was later evacuated.

A pilot has been killed after his military jet spun out of control and plummeted to the ground before being engulfed in a ball of flame.

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.