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High winds and impaired visibility may have caused a passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates to take a nosedive on Saturday, killing all 62 people on board.
A Spanish military A330 aircraft lands at Torrejon de Ardoz airbase, carrying more than 200 Spaniards, EU citizens and third country nationals residing in Spain, all evacuated from Israel. IMAGES
People walk up the stairs of a plane which is set to take UK asylum seekers to Rwanda, as part of a controversial policy to send those who comes to the UK illegally to the African country for processing and resettlement. Only six people are now due to be deported because of legal challenges and reviews of cases -- well down on the 130 initially envisaged by the authorities. IMAGES
Rescuers work at the site of a cargo plane crash outside the Russian city of Irkutsk. The Antonov An-12 aircraft "disappeared from radars" during its final approach with seven people on board travelling from Yakutsk. Antonov planes were manufactured during the Soviet era and are still used throughout the former Soviet Union for civilian and military transport, they have been involved in a number of accidents in recent years. IMAGES of emergency workers
Seventy one people, including three foreign nationals and six crew members, were killed when Saratov Airlines flight 6W703 crashed shortly after take-off. The plane was flying to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar screens shortly after it took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, before crashing some 50 miles south-east of the capital. According to the Russian Transport Ministry a special committee is investigating the cause of the deadly crash.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).