Nov 29 Watch 5:44 News Wrap: Plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashes, killing 71 By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, a chartered plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashed in Colombia overnight, killing 71 people on board. The plane went down in the mountains near Medellin as athletes and a group of journalists covering… Continue watching
Nov 07 'Noise' heard in last moment of recording from downed Russian plane By News Desk The head of Egypt's investigation into last week's Russian airliner crash in the Sinai Peninsula said Saturday the cockpit recording registered a noise in its last second. Continue reading
Nov 02 Watch 1:30 PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 2, 2015 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, investigators search for answers into a Russian airline crash in Egypt. Also: The Supreme Court considers racial discrimination in jury selection, GOP candidates seek debate changes, Turkish voters reaffirms power for President Erdogan’s party, looking into… Continue watching
Oct 31 More than 200 dead after Russian airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai By Daniel Costa-Roberts MetroJet flight 9268 and its 224 passengers and crew lifted off from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Just 23 minutes later, the flight lost contact with ground control and plunged more than… Continue reading
Oct 13 Watch 3:10 MH17 crash report findings sharpen suspicions and denials By PBS News Hour Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which crashed last July in Eastern Ukraine, was likely blown apart by a Russian-built missile, according to Dutch investigators. The safety board also concluded that the missile was shot from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Continue watching
Aug 23 Update: British airshow jet crash kills 11, injures dozens By Andrew Mach Seven people were killed and more than a dozen were injured after a military jet crashed during an air show on Saturday in West Sussex, United Kingdom. Continue reading
Mar 27 Is a 600-hour pilot too green to be safe? By Miles O'Brien The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 offers yet another example of how the layers of safety in aviation have been peeled away since deregulation 35 years ago. Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch 2:58 Cockpit voice recorder captures dramatic descent of Germanwings flight By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch 7:37 News Wrap: Investigators search through Germanwings wreckage on Alpine slopes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 24 Watch 4:14 Why was the German jet flying so low and so fast? By PBS News Hour What happened to the Germanwings Airbus that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday? Shortly after reaching its cruising altitude, the airplane began a dangerously fast descent over mountainous terrain, but no distress call was issued. Alan Diehl, an aviation… Continue watching