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A light aircraft has crashed shortly after take-off in Valletta on Monday, killing at least five people on board.
A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed Wednesday in the country's mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country's history. IMAGES
All 62 people on board a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russian are said to have died during an attempt to land. Natasha Howitt reports.
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
A Ukrainian plane carrying at least 170 people crashed shortly after take off in Tehran on Wednesday, killing all on board. The Boeing 737 had left Tehran's international airport bound for Kiev, semi-official news agency ISNA said, adding that 10 ambulances were sent to the crash site. IMAGES of crash site.
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.