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The 4-years-old sole survivor of a plane crash in Khabarovsk has returned home for the first time. Nina Pahomova, director of Nelkan School, believes that the child only survived because a teacher covered her child's body with her own, shortly before impact. The girl was the sole survivor of a seven-passenger-plane that crashed shortly after midday in the Eastern Russian village of Nelken.
Police say a 7-year-old girl survived a small plane crash in Kentucky that killed her parents, sister, and cousin. Linda So reports.
CCTV footage captured the moment that a small plane hit a tree and crashed in a car park at the Roberston Airport in Plainville, Connecticut on Monday. The aircraft’s 79-year-old pilot, a man named Manfred Forst, reportedly walked away from the crash with minor injuries. Forst was attempting to land the rented single engine Cessna at the time of the crash and was only about a hundred yards from the runway.
A plane flying from Melbourne to Australia's King Island crashed into a shopping centre in Essendon, a suburb of northern Melbourne on Tuesday, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, shortly after taking off from Melbourne's Essendon Airport around 9 AM local time on Tuesday. According to local police, The twin-engine Beechcraft B200 Super King Air is suspected to have suffered engine failure. The plane crashed into the back of a furniture store and a JB Hi-Fi store in the DFO shopping centre, leaving the parking area in flames and killing the pilot, identified as US citizen Max Quartermain, and all four passengers, who have also been identified as US citizens. Pilot Max Quartermain was the co-owner of Corporate and Leisure Aviation, the company which operated the plane. He had a perfect 38-year safety record. According to unconfirmed reports, there were no casualties on the ground. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the incident.
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).
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