Crashed Plane News Today

Federal investigators have released a preliminary report on a deadly plane crash in Chester County earlier this month.

Victims included those aboard the plane and in the mobile home, officials said.

Pilot makes distress call, reporting engine failure

The superintendent of the Octorara Area School District says the school board president died in a small plane crash in Chester County on Thursday afternoon.

After Russia said Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the recent Il-76 plane crash, Ukraine appealed to return the allegedly killed POWs home, Andrii Yusov, a representative of the military intelligence, said on Feb. 1. But the Russian government has not responded to Ukraine's request, he added. There is no evidence of the presence of the POWs on the crashed plane apart from Russia's claims, Yusov added.

Russia shows no willingness to return bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) allegedly killed in an Il-76 plane crash on Jan. 24, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) spokesperson Andrii Yusov said in a comment to Suspilne, published on Jan. 30.

A Russian Il-76 transport aircraft allegedly carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed in Russia's Belgorod Oblast on Jan. 24 at around 11 a.m. local time, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the country's Defense Ministry.

Russia has supplied Mali with two Su-25 attack aircraft since 2022, but neither of them lasted a year. The last Su-25 crashed on 9 September. Source: Defense Express Quote: "The Armed Forces of Mali have lost their only Su-25 attack aircraft - the plane crashed on 9 September near Almoustrat, north of the Gao region, the loss of the attack jet has already been confirmed directly by the country's air force, and footage of the crashed plane has already been shared online.

A plane said to be carrying the leader of the Wagner Group mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, crashed in Russia on Aug. 23, 2023.

Russian investigators have confirmed the death of the pilot of the plane which crashed with the loss of all on board including mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. An Embraer executive jet on which Prigozhin was listed as a passenger crashed in Tver region north of Moscow on Aug 23, according to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency. Six other passengers were listed along with a crew of three, including pilot Alexei Levshin.