Air accident
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Japan
Five dead after coast guard plane collides with passenger jet at Tokyo airport
All 379 passengers and crew of a Japan Airlines plane miraculously escaped from a fire following the collision, but five of the six crew of the coast guard aircraft were killed.
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Wreckage of crashed jet pulled from Port Phillip Bay
Police hope video cameras filming inside the ex-military plane when it crashed will help piece together the moments before the mid-air collision that killed two people.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Alex Crowe
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Tragedy
Remains of pilot and passenger found in Mount Martha plane crash search
Pilot Stephen Gale and cameraman James Rose went missing when the plane they were flying in crashed into Port Phillip Bay near Mount Martha on Sunday.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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Tragedy
Wreckage found in Mount Martha plane crash search
Police are working to remove a large part of the former military jet from the water in Mornington after the plane carrying a pilot and cameraman filming a documentary about flying crashed on Sunday.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Madeleine Heffernan
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Emergency services
‘We’ve bounced once on our belly’: Men winched from sea recount moment plane went down
The men have described how the plane, with a full tank of fuel, had engine trouble off the Queensland coast and was unable to make it back to land.
- by Cloe Read and Cameron Atfield
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Mount Isa
Three dead after firefighting plane crashes in outback Queensland
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk paid tribute to the crew, who were helping fight bushfires in the state.
- by Kathryn Magann
Off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut down passenger jet’s engines mid-flight
Joseph David Emerson was being held on 83 counts each of attempted murder and reckless endangerment and one count of endangering an aircraft after the incident.
- by David Koenig and Claire Rush
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Emergency services
‘Pilot did an amazing job’: MP among skydivers involved in light plane crash
Under clear blue skies, it should have been a perfect day for a skydive – but moments after taking off from Barwon Heads Airport, those onboard knew something wasn’t right.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Alex Crowe
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USA
‘Please call’: After asking public for help, US finds $124m fighter jet debris
The fighter jet’s main advantage, according to its manufacturer, was that it was nearly impossible to track with radar.
- by Phil Stewart
US marines killed in plane crash during NT training exercise identified
They were among 23 marine personnel on board an MV-22B Osprey aircraft when it crashed while transporting troops on Melville Island.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Tragedy
Three dead after US military aircraft crashes off Darwin
Three American military personnel have died and five more are in a serious condition after the aircraft they were in crashed on an island near Darwin today.
- by Shane Wright