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Kingfisher flight IT-4124, which was carrying 42 passengers and four airline personnel from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, caught fire as it skid during landing at 4.36 pm yesterday.

Fifteen passengers including 2 women were killed while Secunderabad-Kakinada Gautami Express caught fire in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh early on Friday morning. One of the two women killed was pregnant while the other was disabled.

We’ve all seen this scenario in the movies, but this time it’s real. A passenger landed a plane safely in Florida yesterday after the pilot died shortly after takeoff.FAA officials said the twin-engine private plane left left Marco Island Executive Airport Sunday and had climbed to an altitude of 10,000 feet.

A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing more than 100 people.

Afriqiyah Airways listed 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board its flight 8U771 from Johannesburg.

CNEWS TRIPOLI: A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa crashed on Wednesday at Tripoli airport killing all 105 people on board, a security official told reporters. Among the dead were 94 passengers and 11 crew members, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

At 9.30 on Tuesday morning, the Park Hospital in Hyderabad, a five-floor building, found itself on fire. The relatively new hospital (it was opened six months ago) could have turned into a death trap-  it did not have adequate fire safety measures including fire exits. Many passengers jumped out of their rooms to escape the flames that engulfed the post-operative wards and the Intensive Care Unit.

A Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop aircraft (registration N128CM) crashed earlier today near Butte, Montana. According to news reports, the aircraft was preparing to land at Butte's Bert Mooney Airport, but impacted the ground about 500 feet short of the runway. The aircraft caught fire, and all on board are said to have perished.A short time ago, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a press statement that said that the accident occurred at approximately 15:00 MDT on March 22, 2009.

A single-engine private passenger plane crashed on approach to an airport in Butte, Montana, on Sunday, killing 17 people, officials for the Federal Aviation Administration said.A reporter from the Montana Standard newspaper cited local emergency officials as saying the plane was carrying a group of young children on their way to a ski vacation in Bozeman, Montana.

Many female students were evacuated by the emergency relief workers as they were caught inside their dormitories and went unconscious due to suffocation. At least six female students were burnt to death in the fire cause of which was not immediately known.