jet crash

‘Miracle’ in Colombia jet crash: 1 dies, 130 live (AP)

August 16th, 2010

A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke into three pieces as it slid onto the runway on a Colombian island on Monday.…

Dutch survivor of Libyan jet crash leaves for home (AP)

May 15th, 2010

Escorts, policemen and hospital officials try to conceal nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw from the media, as he leaves the hospital to a waiting ambulance to be transported to the airport, in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, May 15, 2010. The Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya left for home Saturday on a medical evacuation flight, just hours after being told that his parents and older brother perished in the disaster. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya left for home Saturday on a medical evacuation flight, just hours after being told…

Top Polish political, military killed in jet crash (AP)

April 11th, 2010

A mourner holds a prayer in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 10, 2010, as news broke out about Polish President's Lech Kaczynski death. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife died Saturday along with 130 others when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in western Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland’s military, political and church elite Saturday, killing the Polish president and dozens of other dignitaries…