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Air India Boeing Plane Crashed In Ahmedabad

Authorities survey for more bodies after Air India crash that killed over 240 people

6:10am June 12, 2025

by Michel Martin

Authorities say a total of 241 passengers and crew members were killed in the craft, with only one passenger surviving. There were likely additional casualties on the ground.

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Editor's note: Reporting the midair collision will focus on facts and people's stories

5:00am January 31, 2025

NPR's reporting will continue to focus on what happened and learning what we can about the victims and telling their stories.

Photos from Azerbaijan jet crash suggest a missile strike, according to experts

2:05pm December 27, 2024

The Embraer 190 with 67 passengers and crew was flying from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, when it crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people.

Tents with the characters that read "Disaster rescue" are erected at the entrance to Lv village which leads to the site of the crash site of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 that went down Monday in southwestern China's Guangxi province.

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China's search for survivors from crashed jetliner turns up nothing so far

10:36am March 22, 2022

The flight, with 132 passengers and crew aboard was en route from Kunming to Guangzhou when it crashed in a forested area of southern China on Monday.

Relatives of passengers of the crashed Lion Air jet check personal belongings retrieved from the waters where the airplane crashed, at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, last October.

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Indonesia Report: Pilots, Ground Crew Share Blame With Boeing For Lion Air Crash

6:59am October 25, 2019

by Scott Neuman

In addition to citing failures at Boeing and the FAA, the report found that a faulty sensor was likely installed without being tested and the co-pilot on the doomed flight was not properly trained.

Students mourn in front of their school in Haltern, Germany, on Wednesday, a day after the Germanwings plane crash. Sixteen high-schoolers and two teachers from the school were among the 150 people onboard the plane.

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3 Americans Among Crash Victims Who Included Students, Opera Singers

7:40pm March 26, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

One hundred fifty people are believed to have died when Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed Tuesday. The passengers were from at least 15 countries, including the U.S., Iran and Israel.

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Investigators Examine Mangled Voice Recorder From Doomed Flight

8:05pm March 25, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

A top French investigator said they hope to have "rough ideas in a matter of days" as to why Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed in the French Alps Tuesday, killing all 150 people onboard.

Family of passengers on the Germanwings plane that crashed Tuesday arrive at Barcelona airport.

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As Night Falls, Officials Call Off Search Operation For German Plane

7:00am March 25, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The 150 people on board Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 are feared dead. The plane left Barcelona, Spain, this morning en route to Duesseldorf, Germany, and crashed in the French Alps.

Indonesian Navy personnel carry a body bag from AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed off the coast of Indonesian Borneo a week ago.

Large Objects Found In Java Sea Believed To Be AirAsia Jet

1:02pm January 03, 2015

Bad weather continues to hamper the search for bodies, but the chief search official says a remotely operated vehicle has found parts of the missing jet that crashed last Sunday.