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Palace calls for stricter safety measures for aircraft after Lionair incident

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 03:47 PM

Malacañang on Monday called for stricter security and safety measures for aircraft after a medical evacuation plane caught fire in the country's main airport, leaving 8 people dead.   Read more »

'He fought like a hero': Young doctor among 8 killed in ill-fated medical flight

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 30 07:15 PM

A young doctor was among the 8 people who lost their lives when a Japan-bound plane erupted in flames during takeoff at the Manila airport this weekend, his sister said.  Read more »

Probe into ill-fated medical flight may take up to a year: CAAP

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 30 01:19 PM

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) on Monday said an investigation into a Japan-bound plane that caught fire on takeoff at the Manila airport Sunday, leaving 8 dead, might take up to a year. Read more »

The ANC Brief: Violence against health worker

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 04:44 AM

Metro Manila enters its third week on lockdown. Here are the stories making the headlines on ANC today. Read more »

8 killed as fire engulfs plane on NAIA runway

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 29 11:41 PM

The plane, which was on a medical evacuation mission to Haneda, Japan, was carrying 2 passengers and 6 crew members, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said in a statement. Read more »

PNP helicopter crash unlikely to influence Duterte on chopper trips, says Panelo

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 05 02:15 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte will unlikely be swayed from riding helicopters even after a fairly new chopper of the Philippine National Police crashed Thursday, Malacañang said. Read more »

Malaysia says no evidence pilot caused MH370 disappearance

Kyodo News
Posted at Feb 20 08:19 AM

KUALA LUMPUR - Former Malaysian officials who oversaw the probe into missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said Wednesday that the rogue pilot angle had been investigated without any conclusive evidence found. Read more »

Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 12:10 PM

Airbus on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous aircraft design that blends wing and body, designed to slash carbon emissions by some 20 percent.    Read more »

Plane skids off runway in Istanbul, killing 3 and injuring 179

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 06 08:19 AM

ISTANBUL - A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of the wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 179 others, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. Read more »

Recording shows Iran knew immediately it had shot down plane -Zelenskiy

Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 08:36 PM

A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Read more »

Iran seeks help reading plane's black boxes amid pressure to hand them over

Alexander Cornwell and Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 05:13 PM

DUBAI - Iran has asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, a request that will add to international frustration at Tehran's failure to send the recorders abroad for analysis.   Read more »

Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 05:08 PM

The country's civil aviation authority said it has yet to receive a positive response after requesting technical assistance from France and the United States to decode black boxes from the downed airliner. Read more »

Iran judiciary says arrests made over airliner downing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 06:00 PM

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced Tuesday that arrests have been made over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Tehran last week, without specifying how many.   Read more »

'Clerics get lost!': Iran protests rage on over plane disaster

Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 09:21 PM

Protesters denouncing Iran's clerical rulers took to the streets and riot police deployed to face them on Monday, in a third day of demonstrations after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by accident. Read more »

Iran missile operator who downed Ukrainian jet acted alone: commander

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 12:05 AM

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a "cruise missile" and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards' aerospace commander. Read more »

Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing

Oleksandr Savochenko, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 12 01:44 AM

"We expect Iran... to bring the guilty to the courts," the Ukrainian leader wrote on Facebook, calling also for the "payment of compensation" and the return of remains. Read more »

Angry Iranians question authorities for concealing truth on plane incident

Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 11 10:12 PM

For days, Iran had denied Western accusations it was responsible for Wednesday's crash soon after take-off from Tehran, in which all 176 people aboard were killed. Authorities said on Saturday that air defenses had been fired in error while on high alert following Iranian missile strikes on US targets in Iraq. Read more »

Iran to probe black boxes after missile blamed for plane crash

Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Posted at Jan 11 10:30 AM

Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. Read more »

Flight PS752 plane crash in Iran: Was the aircraft shot down?

Daphne Beniot and Stuart Williams, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 11 03:58 AM

A Boeing passenger jet crashed in Iran early on January 8, hours after Tehran had launched a barrage of missiles at bases housing American troops in Iraq, in retaliation for the killing of commander Qasem Soleimani in a US strike. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 10, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 11 01:01 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »