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The Learjet 25 carrying Jenni Rivera was enroute from MTY to TLC, about 1 hour flight time. (Map by NYCAviation/GCMap.com. Photo by Jenni Rivera via wikipedia)

Mexico Plane Crash Kills Singer Jenni Rivera and 6 Others

A plane carrying well-known Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera crashed in Mexico on Sunday, killing Rivera and six others.
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Computer rendering of the KLM and Pan Am 747s colliding at Tenerife.

WE GAAN: The Horror and Absurdity of History’s Worst Plane Crash

Like most other aviation calamities, the 583 people killed in 1977 when a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife resulted not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a ...
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Aviation News

Henan Airlines Jet Skids Off Runway in Northeast China, 42 Killed

Forty-two people were killed and 49 injured when a passenger plane overshot the runway at an airport in northeast China on Tuesday evening, state media reported.
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Reno Air Race Crash Kills and Injures Scores of Spectators

As many as 12 people were killed and 75 injured Friday afternoon when a plane taking part in the Reno Air Races crashed into a spectator seating area, according to preliminary reports.
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Airline News
Delta Connection CRJ appears to have suffered damage to its vertical stabilizer and left horizontal stabilizer

Air France Airbus A380 Clips Smaller Delta Jet at Kennedy Airport in New York

An Air France Airbus A380 superjumbo jet has clipped the tail of a smaller Delta Air Lines plane while taxiing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
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