All Stories: Air Crash

CAIRO: A Russian charter plane carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula Saturday, killing all on board, Egyptian officials said.

It has been 27 years since former military dictator, Zia ul Haq, died mysterious air crash in Bahawalpur district of southern Punjab on August 17, 1988.

PARIS: French investigators hope to speed up identification of the 150 people killed in last week's Germanwings plane crash by digging a roadtrack that will allow direct access to the disaster zone high on a remote Alpine mountainside.

LOS ANGELES: A pilot who died when he crashed his small aircraft was distracted because he was taking cell phone selfies in the cockpit, likely contributing to the fatal accident, US investigators said Tuesday.

CHICAGO: Three doctors of Pakistani origin were killed in a plane crash here in Chicago, ARY News reports on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR: As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and turquoise uniforms, sobbed and clung to each other in grief.