Vittorio Missoni was one of six people aboard a plane that has been reported missing off the coast of Venezuela. Missoni — as you could have guessed — runs the famed Italian fashion house Missoni along with his siblings Luca and Angela, neither of whom was on the plane.
Dashboard cameras placed in Russian cars have revolutionized the Internet in ways we could have never imagined. Thanks to them, we now have up close footage of yesterday's plane crash in Russia that killed four people.
The parents of Kaavya Viswanathan — the former Harvard undergrad whose literary career was cut short after her first novel was discovered to be partially plagiarized — died early this morning when their small plane crashed at Rickenbacker International Airport in central Ohio.
The pilots of the plane carrying the Polish President "saw the crash coming."
A small plane has crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, that houses local FBI, CIA, and IRS offices. The scene is 20 miles from the nearest airport, and witnesses say the plane "hit the building full-throttle."
An Ethiopian aircraft has plummeted into the sea, mere minutes after its takeoff from Lebanese capital Beirut. The Lebanese army and U.N. Interim Force are searching the coast. Among those aboard was the wife of France's ambassador to Lebanon. The flight was en route to Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. [CNN]
A fourteen-year-old French girl is the only survivor rescued from yesterday's Yemeni plane crash. (Initial reports had said she was 5.) She held on to floating wreckage for thirteen hours in the Indian Ocean before being rescued.
The debris and oil slick found floating in the Atlantic yesterday was not from the crash of Flight 447 after all, Brazilian searchers say. They still think they've found wreckage from the crash; ABC News says that's an open question.
The Brazilian Air Force, searching for signs of the Air France flight that disappeared yesterday with 228 people on board, has located debris, including oil and an airplane seat, floating in the water 400 miles off the coast of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha island.
Even though more than a month has passed since Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle fatally crashed his plane into the Belaire apartment highrise on the Upper East Side, the trauma continues:
The humanity. Elevators monopolized. Filters rumbling. Owners ! "There is no protection for people in high-rises," complains one…The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
Yep, that was Cory Lidle, back in June when he still played for the Phillies. Lidle said that in response to a article about the Phillies' detailed contract penalties that forbade players from…
