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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.

An Indonesian military plane has crashed, killing at least 97 people. The military transport plane crashed into homes near an air force base Wednesday morning as it was coming in for a landing.

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.

Federal investigators were on the scene of a small plane crash at Lake Anna Sunday. The plane, a Ultra Light Hydroplane, crashed several miles south of the North Anna nuclear power plant, killing the pilot. His daughter, who was also on board, survived.

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.

A private plane carrying children and adults from California to a skiing vacation in Montana diverted from its planned destination and crashed on Sunday as it attempted to land at an airport in Butte, and a Federal Aviation Administration official said all on board — 14 to 17 people — had been killed.Read at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23crash.html

A Brazilian navy ship today is expected to reach the wreckage of the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board, authorities said.

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.

The body of the pilot of an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 has been identified among dozens that have been recovered from the ocean, the airline said Thursday.