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Saulos Chilima.  (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

A tribute to Malawi’s Saulos Chilima, the people’s hero

The vice president had great courage, with so much character that his politics was not only an inspiration at home, but echoed throughout East, Central and Southern Africa

Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Malawi vice-president, nine others, killed in plane crash

The military plane carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others disappeared on Monday

Tributes were paid to the striker on both sides of the Channel over the weekend as hopes faded he would be found alive. (Andrew Boyers/Reuters)

Footballer Sala’s missing plane found — investigators

​The missing plane carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot has been found, investigators said on Sunday

A worker assists his colleague during the lift up of a damaged tyre from the Lion Air flight JT610 jet, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 5 2018. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

Crashed Lion Air jet had air speed indicator glitch on fatal flight: official

​An Indonesian Lion Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea last week, killing all 189 on board, had an airspeed indicator problem on its fatal flight

Johan Booysen in Durban on December 31 2010.

Investigators hunt for clues over Russian passenger plane crash

"Sixty-five passengers and six crew members were on board, and all of them died," Russia’s office of transport

Emirates Airline suffered a plane malfunction that warranted an emergency landing on Wednesday

Emirates Airline plane crash-lands in Dubai after catching fire, passengers safe

An Emirates Airline flight from India caught fire after making an emergency landing at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday

Families of the victims from an Indonesia plane crash grieve the loss of their loved ones.

Bodies from Indonesian plane crash recovered from jungle

The bodies of all 54 people killed when their plane crashed in Indonesia have been recovered from a jungle site and their remains flown to Jayapura.

Crashed Indonesian plane found ‘destroyed’, no survivors

A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was found on Tuesday "completely destroyed" with the bodies of all 54 people who had been aboard.

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Pilot honoured as TransAsia death toll rises to 31

The TransAsia plane which crashed on Wednesday apparently missed built-up areas, thanks to the pilot. Meanwhile, the search is still underway.

AirAsia flight QZ8501’s black box has been examined.

Divers recover second AirAsia black box recorder

Experts now have essential tools to piece together what brought AirAsia Flight 8501 down.

The suspected AirAisa Flight QZ8501 wreckage is lying in water around 30 metres deep

Fifth piece of AirAsia wreckage believed to be found

Amidst reports of bad weather, the fifth large underwater object believed to be part of plane AirAsia QZ8501 may have been found.

Indonesian military personnel carry the coffin containing the remains of Khairunisa Binti Haidar Fauzi

Searchers find ‘big parts’ of crashed AirAsia plane

‘Big parts’ of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have been found in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late on Friday night.

Bodies found near site of AirAsia plane’s disappearance

Indonesian officials on Tuesday spotted six bodies from the AirAsia flight that disappeared two days earlier, and recovered three of them.

Hammarskjöld’s body

Swedes reopen UN’s old wounds

Stockholm is seeking a new probe into the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld in Zambia 53 years ago.

Pastor Myles Munroe’s and wife Ruth are killed in a fatal air-craft crash in the Bahamas.

World mourns death of Dr Myles Munroe

The world woke up to the news of the death of Dr Myles Munroe who was travelling in a private jet that struck a construction crane while landing.

Missing Air Algerie plane confirmed crashed, says official

The missing Air Algerie plane has been confirmed by Algerian officials to have crashed en route to its destination.

Eleven days have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing.

Investigations into missing Malaysian aircraft seem deadlocked

With no conclusive evidence of foulplay and doubts whether nations would share military tracking data, investigations appear to be at an impasse.

Eleven days have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing.

Countries scour sea for missing Malaysia jet

The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief has said, as a massive air and sea search continues.

Rescuers pulled out ‘four completely charred bodies from the wreckage. It was the most frightening sight’

Aircraft crash, explosion in Indonesia leaves 4 dead

Four people have died following the crash of a light aircraft, which was hit by lightning, crashed and then burst into flames in eastern Indonesia.

A handout picture released by the Namibian police shows the burnt wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane at the site of its crash in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park on November 30.

Mozambican airline crash ‘intentional’, says probe

The plane’s captain had a "clear intention" to crash an airplane that went down in Namibia at the end of November, according to an investigation.