Pilots Dead

Two persons are feared dead and one critically injured after a helicopter crashed at Bavdhan near Pune shortly after take-off this morning. It is not known if it was a government or a private chopper.

Scores of whales washed ashore in a "mass stranding" in Scotland's Orkney archipelago on Thursday, a British marine life rescue charity said.

Two small planes collided midair Sunday during an air show performance in southern Portugal, the air force said, with media reporting that one of the pilots was killed.

The Boeing 777 jet of Singapore Airlines had to make an emergency landing in Thailand on Tuesday after being hit by deadly turbulence.

On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 from Moscow to Hong Kong crashed which resulted in the deaths of all 75 people on board.

Russia's spy chief on Tuesday said a pilot who defected to Ukraine with a military helicopter and was reportedly shot dead in Spain last week was a "moral corpse".

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter last year was found dead in an underground garage in Spain last week, his body riddled with bullets, Ukrainian and Spanish media reported on Monday.

The family members of a schoolboy, who died at a city hospital days after allegedly being thrashed by his seniors, said that the 12-year-old boy wanted to become a fighter pilot.

A small plane crashed into a parking lot of a shopping centre in the United States on Tuesday.

Lieutenant General Sviridov was awarded the Order of the Red Star during his career and he became an honoured pilot of Russia.

Two Argentinian pilots died on Sunday after their fighter jet planes crashed and burst into flames during an airshow display.

Thetwo planes, a single-engine North American T-6 G and a single-engine North American AT-6B collided as they were in the process of landing.

The video of the incident has surfaced online which shows the pilot ejecting moments before the jet goes up in flames after hitting the ground.

The second pilot of a helicopter that crashed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has been found dead, authorities said Monday, days after he was declared missing.

The 32-year-old pilot, named Luis Angel N., was later found lying in the wreckage of the plane before he was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Two persons are feared dead and one critically injured after a helicopter crashed at Bavdhan near Pune shortly after take-off this morning. It is not known if it was a government or a private chopper.

Scores of whales washed ashore in a "mass stranding" in Scotland's Orkney archipelago on Thursday, a British marine life rescue charity said.

Two small planes collided midair Sunday during an air show performance in southern Portugal, the air force said, with media reporting that one of the pilots was killed.

The Boeing 777 jet of Singapore Airlines had to make an emergency landing in Thailand on Tuesday after being hit by deadly turbulence.

On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 from Moscow to Hong Kong crashed which resulted in the deaths of all 75 people on board.

Russia's spy chief on Tuesday said a pilot who defected to Ukraine with a military helicopter and was reportedly shot dead in Spain last week was a "moral corpse".

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter last year was found dead in an underground garage in Spain last week, his body riddled with bullets, Ukrainian and Spanish media reported on Monday.

The family members of a schoolboy, who died at a city hospital days after allegedly being thrashed by his seniors, said that the 12-year-old boy wanted to become a fighter pilot.

A small plane crashed into a parking lot of a shopping centre in the United States on Tuesday.

Lieutenant General Sviridov was awarded the Order of the Red Star during his career and he became an honoured pilot of Russia.

Two Argentinian pilots died on Sunday after their fighter jet planes crashed and burst into flames during an airshow display.

Thetwo planes, a single-engine North American T-6 G and a single-engine North American AT-6B collided as they were in the process of landing.

The video of the incident has surfaced online which shows the pilot ejecting moments before the jet goes up in flames after hitting the ground.

The second pilot of a helicopter that crashed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has been found dead, authorities said Monday, days after he was declared missing.

The 32-year-old pilot, named Luis Angel N., was later found lying in the wreckage of the plane before he was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.