The pilot and the passenger got into the plane. It was a small plane. It had one engine. It was an old plane. The pilot started the engine. Are you okay? he asked the passenger. She said she was okay. They were flying to an island. The island was onl...
The pilot of an Indonesian airliner that crashed in 2007, killing 21 people, has gone on trial - accused of deliberately ignoring warnings, causing the airliner to crash. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more. Indonesian pilot Marwoto Komar...
By Ricci Shryock Dakar 16 April 2008 United Nations workers joined fire crews combing through the smoldering wreckage of a passenger plane that failed to take off and crashed into a crowded market district of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
By Kari Barber Dakar 15 April 2008 Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say more than 70 people have been killed in the crash of a passenger plane in the eastern city of Goma. Theplane, whichwas carrying up to 100 people, crashed into a busy...
By George Dwyer Washington 29 February 2008 Representatives from the world's zoos and aquariums have officially proclaimed 2008 The International Year of the Frog. In Washington, the National Geographic Society is using the sudden global focus on fro...
By Deborah Block Baghdad 10 January 2008 U.S. bombers and fighters have launched a massive air assault on what are being described as al-Qaida in Iraq safehouses on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. VOA's Deborah Block has the story from the Iraqi c...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 14 September 2007 A U.S. military plane that was shot at earlier this week by suspected rebels in Mali's northeastern desert is scheduled to leave the country on Saturday. U.S. military officials are undeterred by the shooting, s...
By David Byrd Rio de Janeiro 18 July 2007 Brazilian athletes at the Pan American Games are marking a three-day mourning period following the country's worst airline disaster. As VOA's David Byrd reports from Rio de Janeiro, athletes will wear black a...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 24 April 2006 A child was killed and nine other people injured when a plane skidded off a runway and damaged nearby homes in southern Afghanistan. The Russian-made plane was...
Traveling by plane is exciting, but it can also be very tiring. There are so many things to be done. You have to pay the airport tax, check in your bags and then get to the departure gate. So it's bes...
