RUSSIA: Baby Girl Miraculously Lone Survivor In Plane Crash

The deadly accident involving a Let L-410 light plane took place last Wednesday as the plane approached for landing near the settlement of Nelkan.

The crash claimed the lives of its two pilots and four passengers. The baby girl was the lone survivor.

After being taken to hospital in the city of Khabarovsk, doctors found that the girl had only minor injuries, suffering a slight concussion and a broken leg.

Her leg was operated on Monday. Doctors say her general condition is relatively satisfactory.

Her condition is stable, everything is normal; she is getting all the necessary treatment,doctors said.

According to the physician, children with similar injuries usually remain in hospital for about a month.

The girl’s mother, who was not on board the plane, earlier confirmed the extent of her daughter’s injuries, and said that she was being taken to her grandmother’s home in the countryside.

According to witnesses, the girl was saved by a heroic school teacher, who shielded the baby with her body as the plane made its fateful landing.

Local residents have asked that the teacher be posthumously awarded.

The girl’s miraculous survival has resulted in an outpouring of support online.

Sympathisers wished her good health and a long life. Get well soon, little one, a well wisher said.

It’s a miracle. At least this one time God took pity on an innocent child,another said.

I wish her a speedy recovery and a long, long life another said.

A criminal investigation has been opened against Khabarovsk Airlines for the violation of the rules of air traffic safety and the operation of an aircraft causing the death of two or more persons’.

The Far East Hydrometeological Center reported that weather conditions at Nelkan settlement were satisfactory at the time of the accident.



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USA: Two Planes Crash Mid-air Then Plunge Into The Ocean

Two small planes with three people believed to be aboard collided over the ocean just outside the port of Los Angeles. There was no sign of survivors after hours of searching.

The planes were a Beechcraft and a Super Decathlon acrobatic craft, according to officials.

Two men ages 61 and 81 were aboard one plane, and a 72-year-old woman was aboard the other plane, Coast Guard Capt. Jennifer Williams said.

Searchers found wreckage, including a pilot’s logbook, from the Beechcraft plane that was carrying the two men.

The plane flown by the woman is missing, and air traffic controllers saw two aircraft apparently run into each other on radar, leading authorities to conclude they must have collided.

The crash site was near the Angels Gate light, a lighthouse at the San Pedro Breakwater that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The area is popular for flight students.

Fire and lifeguard boats and rescue divers swarmed the area. “They found both a partial tail number and then a second tail number,” Los Angeles County lifeguard Captain Ken Haskett said.

The area of the collision is about two miles outside the entrance to the harbor, where water depths were 80 feet to 90 feet.

Richard Garnett, chief flight instructor with the Long Beach Flying Club, said the pilots practice in an area that is 10 to 20 square miles and at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 feet. On a typical day, there will be three or four planes in the air at the same time.

Friday’s mid-air collision was not the first in the area.

In 2001, four people died when two Cessna airplanes carrying instructors and students collided 1,000 feet above the harbor.

In 1986, two small planes flown by students collided. But the aircraft managed to return to their airports, and the four people on board escaped injury.

Pilots communicate at two different radio frequencies — one for above 2,000 feet and the other below, said Reed Novisoff, chief pilot at Pacific Air Flight School.

“People are very diligent about reporting their positions,” Novisoff said. “It’s very safe out there.”

USA: Fatal Plane Crash In Akron, Ohio

At least two people are dead after a plane crashed into a home in Akron, Ohio, USA, today at 2:54 pm. The two known fatalities were people inside the 10-passenger plane. Names have not yet been released.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Hawker H25 business jet was on approach to Akron Fulton International Airport when it crashed.

The Akron Fire Department said more than two people have died, but this is all that could be concretely confirmed so far. Ohio State Highway Patrol was not able to confirm if other people were onboard the plane at the time of the crash.

After the plane crashed into the home located at 3042 Mogadore Road near Skelton Road, it then smashed into an embankment. Debris from the crash caused a second home to catch fire. Nobody was home and no one was injured on the ground.

The plane struck power lines before it crashed, which caused a power outage to 1,500 customers in Tallmadge. As of the time of the filing of this article, power was restored to all but 135 homes.