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Added on the 09/06/2016 14:01:36 - Copyright : Reuters EN
An American pilot has died after his fighter jet went down in eastern England in what witnesses described as a “huge fireball” at around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
One of the most epic drag races ever took place at the 2017 MAKS Air Show in Russia on Saturday - pitting a MIG-29UB fighter jet against a Formula 1 race car. The Formula 1 vehicle took the lead in the beginning but the MIG's engines warmed up quickly and the jet quickly overtook the race car before going airborn. The action took place on the grounds of the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow, and featured some of the world's fastest four-wheeled vehicles racing different aircraft on the race track in a mini event called the Festival of Speed.
A Russian fighter jet SU-24 has been downed by Turkey Tuesday as the warplane allegedly entered Turkish airspace. The two pilots ejected themselves before the crash. At least one of them may have been captured by Syrian rebels.
Emergency services work after a Russian jet conducting a test flight crashed into a two-storey house in the city of Irkutsk in southern Siberia, days after a military jet crashed into a block of flats in the Russian town of Yeysk. IMAGES
Mourners attend a farewell ceremony for Daria Dugina, daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, after she was killed in a car bombing on August 21. Russia's FSB security services blame Ukraine for the attack, which is thought to have been targeted at Dugin, an outspoken ultranationalist intellectual and a vocal supporter of the Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine. A Ukrainian presidential adviser has denied that the Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing. 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).