A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York on 10th April 2025, killing all six people onboard, including the pilot and a family of Spanish tourists with three children. The sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront shortly after 3pm, leading to a huge response from emergency crews.
Witness Bruce Wall told the Associated Press he saw the helicopter “falling apart” in midair, with the tail and propeller coming off. The propeller was still spinning without the aircraft as it fell, he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/helicopter-crash-new-york
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All 80 people on board a plane which crashed and overturned while landing in Toronto have survived, officials said.
The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible and it came to a halt upside down as firefighters came to the rescue. Survivors said they were suspended upside down in their seats and had to release themselves, dropping on to the ceiling before clambering out on to the snow-covered tarmac. Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are thought to be seriously hurt, and investigators are looking into what caused the crash. There were 76 passengers and four crew on board the 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft, made by Canada's Bombardier company.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g02djlv7o
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The aviation world is struggling to understand how a deadly mid-air collision between a passenger plane and military helicopter was able to happen in what one expert described as "the most controlled bit of airspace in the world".
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter with a crew of three collided with an American Airlines jet carrying 64 people seconds before the passenger aircraft was due to land at Washington National airport.
Both aircraft were sent careering into the icy Potomac River on Wednesday night.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdx6le5l27o
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The aircraft that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38 people, experienced “external physical and technical interference”, according to preliminary results of an investigation, Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday.
The plane was flying from the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to the Russian city of Grozny in Chechnya when it crashed in a field near Aktau in Kazakhstan, hundreds of miles off its planned route. Twenty-nine people survived.
On Friday the head of Russia’s civil aviation agency said the aircraft tried to land in Grozny as the region was under attack by Ukrainian drones.
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) held an awards ceremony on 9th December 2024 celebrating the brilliant women showcasing their engineering excellence and truly engineering a better world.
Several awards were presented including: Young Woman Engineer of the Year, The Mary George Memorial Prize for Apprentices, the Women's Engineer Society (WES) Prize and the Gender Diversity Ambassador Award.
These prestigious engineering industry awards celebrate women working in modern engineering – and aim to help change the perception that engineering is predominantly a career for men by banishing outdated engineering stereotypes of hard hats and dirty overalls.
https://youngwomenengineer.theiet.org/
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