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A light aircraft smashes into shops and explodes into a "massive fireball" killing all five on board, including four American passengers reportedly golfers on the trip of a lifetime, officials in Australia say. IMAGES
At least seven people were killed Sunday and another three injured when a small plane crashed in southwestern Colombia, authorities said. IMAGES
A Tu-204 passenger airplane bound from Ufa to Sochi was forced to make an immediate return after one of its engines caught fire shortly after take-off. A total of 202 people were on board at the time. The airplane made an emergency landing at Ufa's airport where fire crews extinguished the blaze and passengers were evacuated via inflatable escape slides. The plane managed to land safely, and no injuries were reported.
A plane flying from Melbourne to Australia's King Island crashed into a shopping centre in Essendon, a suburb of northern Melbourne on Tuesday, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, shortly after taking off from Melbourne's Essendon Airport around 9 AM local time on Tuesday. According to local police, The twin-engine Beechcraft B200 Super King Air is suspected to have suffered engine failure. The plane crashed into the back of a furniture store and a JB Hi-Fi store in the DFO shopping centre, leaving the parking area in flames and killing the pilot, identified as US citizen Max Quartermain, and all four passengers, who have also been identified as US citizens. According to unconfirmed reports, there were no casualties on the ground. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the incident.
All six passengers on board a small plane headed to Kosovo from Italy are killed after their plane goes down in Macedonia, police and local media say.