The global aviation industry has yet to recover from the twin blows caused by the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on March 8 and the bombing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, another major air disaster looms as reports said an Air Algeria plane with 116 people on board is also missing.
Air Canada suspended flights to Tel Aviv due to the on-going violence in the Middle-Eastern region. Earlier major American airlines like US Airlines and Delta Air Lines cancelled scheduled flights for the same reason.
Only four months after disappearance of MH370, another Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 met with a horrifying tragedy. Boeing 777 was carrying 298 people in the plane from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when the plane was reportedly shot down, killing all the people onboard. No one knows why it happened. However, several conspiracy theories that claim to explain what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are swirling around. While some believe in them, some are skeptic about its authenticity.
Refloated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has embarked on its final voyage as it rolled out of the port of Giglio for the very last time. It is expected to arrive at the port of Genoa on Sunday, at which it will began a 2-year dismantling and scrapping operation.
Global anger grows at Russia, believed to be behind the Moscow-initiated missile hit on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 that took 298 lives, but many Russians are unaware of that. The reason is because they are being bombarded by a constant diet of conspiracy theories regarding the aviation tragedy, with Ukraine being pictured as the culprit by Russian media.
Soon after mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, another tragedy occurred that will haunt people around the world forever. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believed to have been shot down in the Ukrainian skies on July 17, 2014 killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew members onboard. The incident has led to the rise of speculations. The biggest question that remains unanswered is who shot MH17 and why. According to the latest update, Russian TV channel is accusing the U.S.’s C...
More than four months after the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on March 8 after it left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, until today, various theories regarding the incident continue to swirl, with not one proven to be correct or dispelled.
The black boxes or flight recorders of downed Malaysia Airlines MH17, an essential electronic recording device placed in an aircraft that would greatly facilitate investigations in the event of an aviation accident or incident, are finally in the hands of Malaysian authorities.
In what appears to be a direct effect of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a Malaysia Airlines commercial aircraft has been shot down in Ukrainian air space and has crashed in rebel-held territory in the Donetsk region. The plane has been identified as flight MH17.This attack follows two other reported attacks on aircraft over Ukrainian airspace in the past week. The nationalities of the passengers on MH17 have also been released by the airline.
A pro-Russia separatist leader has claimed that the Malaysia Airline flight MH17 was filled with dead bodies even before it took off on Thursday.
Like the first Malaysian Airlines tragedy that rocked the global aviation history in March, the downing on Thursday, July 17, of Flight MH 17 is wrapped in mystery, resulting in several conspiracy theories about the downing and subsequent plane crash that took 298 lives.
The two Malaysian Airlines tragedies have produced heartbreaking as stories of pain and grieving over the loss of loved ones spread around the world. It has also spawned heartwarming stories of travelers having cheated death because of a last-minute change in flight or overbooked flight that resulted in lack of seats. Those whose lives were spared are so thankful for a second chance in life. However, for a Dutch cyclist, the gratitude is double because he was prevented from boarding two Malaysia...
While 298 lives were lost on Thursday when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was hit by missiles from Ukrainian rebels, a few lucky lives were also spared because of last-minute decisions that these travelers would forever not forget.
At least two passengers of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 had premonition that something bad was going to happen to their plane based on a video that one of them posted on Instagram before take-off and a joke that another traveler wrote on his Facebook newsfeed.
A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is on its way to the crash site after it was granted access to the area, OSCE said in a tweet. It has been monitoring the crisis in Ukraine, which had denied that the missiles used to hit the Malaysian Airlines jet carrying 298 passengers and crew came from the country.
A family from Queensland in Australia would probably shun buying tickets from Malaysian Airlines after another jet of the embattled air carrier had an air mishap on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft. The Burrows from Biloela have barely recovered from their March 8 loss, and now two more losses in the family involving the same airlines.
Jason Biggs, who plays Larry, one of the least favourite characters, in Netflix's "Orange is the New Black," took to Twitter, not to post a condolence message but to mock the Malaysian Airlines. Malaysian commercial airline, which was heading to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, crashed over the Russian-Ukraine border, killing all 295 people onboard, on Thursday.
A Malaysian airliner, which was heading to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, was shot down over the Russian and Ukrainian border. The passenger airline was reportedly carrying 283 passengers and 15 members of the crew. According to reports, 27 Australians have been killed in the crash. There were reportedly 154 Dutch passengers on the plane, 45 Malaysian, 12 Indonesian and 9 passengers were British nationals. Videos have surfaced online of the moment when the plane crashed on the ground.
More than four months after, another Malaysia Airlines plane met with a tragedy that shook the world. After disappearance of MH370-believed to be crashed in Indian Ocean- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed over the Ukrainian skies.
Following the confirmed missile attack and subsequent crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which killed 298 people on board, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak took to his social media sites to express his sentiments. Razak took to Twitter and Facebook to immediately impart his thoughts on the situation:
Disaster struck again Malaysia Airlines. Four months after Flight MH370 first went mysteriously missing on March 8, another Malaysia Airlines plane, flight MH17, went into peril. Global reports surmise the airliner was a victim of tensions between Ukraine and Russia, purposely shot down and killing all 295 onboard.
A Dutch passenger of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 posted a Facebook message that now appears to have foreshadowed the tragedy.
Another tragedy has befallen a Malaysia Airlines flight only months after the disappearance of MH370 over the Indian Ocean on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. This time, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was flying to Malaysia from Amsterdam on July 17, 2014 was shot down in mid-air over Ukrainian airspace. The first photos from the crash site confirm the devastation of the aircraft and the deaths of the 295 passengers onboard
Within minutes after reports came out that another Malaysia Airlines aircraft has lost contact with air traffic controllers and the confirmation that it has been shot down over Ukrainian airspace, social media site Twitter has erupted with a slew of graphic images from the crash site. The flight is identified as MH 17 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, July 17, 2014.
Just a few days after the Magaluf sex scandal, another shocking photo of two couples engaging in public sex outside a nightclub in North Ireland has emerged. The image shows two scantily clad women sitting on two men’s laps at the parking lot of El Divino club.
A three-year-old girl who was clinically pronounced dead surprised funeral-goers when she woke up from her coffin in the Philippines.
The final phase of an operation to salvage Italy's ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia has began on Monday, two and a half years after it sank off the island of Giglio, claiming 32 lives in the process.
French police on Thursday said it had intercepted a terrorists' plot to blow-up the famous romantic monument Eiffel Tower, the Louvre as well as a nuclear plant in France last summer.
Baby George practices his first steps in Australia
New Zealand has the world's highest taxi fares. According to a new survey, a taxi from the city to the airport costs more in Christchurch than anywhere else in the world.
