News of crash

Argentine citizen among 67 suspected fatalities in crash

30-01-2025 22:53 All 64 passengers onboard plane and three military officers travelling via helicopter perish after mid-air collision that Trump – without providing any evidence – blames on “diversity” hires.

Deadly Plane Crash

No survivors after plane crash over Washington

30-01-2025 13:14 A midair collision sent a 64-passenger American Airlines plane plummeting into Washington's Potomac River. Overnight rescue efforts have found no survivors.

AVIATION ACCIDENT

Two killed as private jet overshoots runway in San Fernando

18-12-2024 15:22 Tragic accident in Buenos Aires Province; Private jet misses runaway and crashes into houses near small airport of San Fernando. Two pilots aboard the aircraft perished in tragedy.

FATAL CRASH

Nine-year-old Argentine motorbike racer dies after Brazil crash

18-06-2024 22:56 Young Argentine junior motorbike rider Lorenzo Somaschini has died after suffering serious injuries in a crash in São Paulo.

HELICOPTER TRAGEDY

Iran mourns death of president, foreign minister in helicopter crash

20-05-2024 09:51 Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead on Monday after search and rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded mountain region. Killed alongside Raisi were Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and seven others.

PALERMO RAIL CRASH

Courts probes two for Palermo train crash, but focus turns to signallers

13-05-2024 16:24 President Javier Milei’s government will declare a “railway emergency” following crash on San Martín line last week, reveals presidential spokesperson.

OBITUARY

Piñera: the ‘locomotora’ that return the right to power in Chile

08-02-2024 01:02 Former president and businessman, who led Chile for two terms (2010-2014, 2018-2022), was nation’s first right-wing leader of post-Pinochet democratic era.

CHILE

Details of Sebastián Piñera’s death emerge ahead of state funeral

08-02-2024 00:48 Three days of mourning and state funeral for conservative billionaire, who died Tuesday in a tragic helicopter crash; Funeral set for Friday.

HELICOPTER TRAGEDY

Shock in Chile as ex-president Pinera dies in helicopter crash

06-02-2024 20:27 The crash took place in Lago Ranco, a lake district some 920 kilometres south of Santiago, where Piñera often spent vacations with his children and grandchildren.

FILM & CINEMA

Oscar-tipped 'Society of the Snow' gives voice to Andes plane crash dead

07-01-2024 16:21 Roberto Canessa has spent most of his life recounting the astonishing tale of how he survived a plane crash, two avalanches and a diet of human flesh before trekking across freezing mountains to save himself and his friends. Now the infamous tragedy in the Andes is the subject of a major new Netflix movie: 'La sociedad de la nieve.'

MODERN-DAY MIRACLE

'Children of the bush,' lost 40 days in Colombian Amazon, found alive

11-06-2023 09:41 Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest found alive and reunited with relatives.