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Added on the 18/05/2018 20:12:35 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A search team from Russia's ministry of emergency situations are at work on the site of the crash of a passenger plane. A search team recovered the bodies of nine people on Wednesday after the plane crashed in Russia's remote far eastern Kamchatka peninsula. The An-26 plane flying from Kamchatka's main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the coastal town of Palana had 28 people on board, and disappeared and crashed on Tuesday. IMAGES
A search operation is underway at the crash site of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa. The aircraft crashed minutes after an early-morning takeoff, killing all eight crew and 149 passengers on board, including tourists, business travellers, and at least one delegate to a UN meeting. IMAGES of crash site
The black box of the TransAsia Airways flight that crashed into a river in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday morning has been found. The death-toll has risen to 25, and 16 people are still missing.The ill-fated TransAsia Airways flight had five crew members, 22 Taiwanese passengers and 31 Chinese passengers on board.
Images show Russian law enforcement blocking access to a road leading to the site of a plane crash which is thought to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner. According to preliminary information, all 10 people on board died, including three crew members, Russian authorities said. Russia's aviation agency later said the Wagner chief was on board the plane. IMAGES
Police and media are seen near the area where a plane crashed in Russia's Tver region, almost 350 km from Moscow. According to Russian officials, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, was aboard the plane, and died in the crash together with nine other people. IMAGES
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).