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Relatives of 21-year old air traffic controller Anthonius Gunawan Agung, who died while making sure a plane could escape the earthquake and tsunami which hit the Indonesian region of Palu, on the island of Sulawesi, recounted their reaction to the tragedy.
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.
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. According to unconfirmed reports, there were no casualties on the ground. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the incident.
Jakarta, Mar 31 (EFE/EPA).- Indonesian search teams have found the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people on board.The 26-year-old Boeing 737 had been headed to Pontianak on the island of Borneo when it plunged into the sea. Searchers found the other Black Box component, the flight data recorder (FDR), three days later. (Camera: ADI WEDA).SHOT LIST: MEMBERS OF NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY COMMITTEE CARRY COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER (CVR) OF THE SRIWIJAYA AIR FLIGHT SJ182, FOUND IN THE WATERS OFF JAKARTA, AT TANJUNG PRIOK PORT IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA.
Veracruz, Feb 21 (EFE).- Six members of Mexico's military died on Sunday morning after an Air Force plane burst into flame after it crashed near an airport in the southeastern state of Veracruz. The military will carry out an investigation, the country's Defense Ministry said. (Camera: OMAR HERNANDEZ). SHOT LIST: THE SCENE OF THE PLANE CRASH AND THE WRECKAGE OF AN AIRPLANE OF MEXICAN AIR FORCE AFTER THE CRASH NEAR EL LENCERO AIRPORT IN EMILIANO ZAPATA MUNICIPALITY, IN VERACRUZ STATE, MEXICO.
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