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• Neelam Mathews
An Indian air ambulance flight diverted to Dhaka after a depressurization event, according to the available reports. The critically ill patient being transported died after transfer to a hospital; the reports provided do not establish whether the diversion or depressurization contributed to the death.
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An Indian air ambulance flight diverted to Dhaka after a depressurization event, according to the available reports. The critically ill patient being transported died after transfer to a hospital; the reports provided do not establish whether the diversion or depressurization contributed to the death.
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A Russian Su-30SM crashed on Oct. 21 in the Chernyakhovsk district of Kaliningrad region during a scheduled training flight, according to Russian authorities. The two crew members ejected and were evacuated by a ground search-and-rescue team; officials did not disclose whether they were injured.
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A French Air and Space Force Mirage 2000D crashed near Rogéville in northeastern France on Oct. 20 during a nighttime training flight. One of the two crew members is confirmed dead, while rescuers continue searching for the second; the aircraft was assigned to Escadron de Chasse 2/3 “Champagne.”
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An expedition to Nikumaroro in the South Pacific has ruled out a cluster of washed-up trees that researchers suspected might be wreckage from Amelia Earhart’s plane. The finding leaves the 1937 disappearance of Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan unresolved, despite the latest search effort.
Three passengers were taken to hospital after multiple people aboard a Eurowings flight from Rhodes, Greece, to Düsseldorf, Germany, became ill on Sunday night. The cause was not identified in the report.
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Florida prosecutors have charged the former Cuban president in connection with the 1996 destruction of two civilian planes flown by Miami-based Cuban exiles. The charges include four counts of murder, two counts of destroying an aircraft and conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens; Castro was Cuba’s defense minister at the time.
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A joint search team concluded that the Taraia Object anomaly on Nikumaroro is organic material, not wreckage from Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra. The finding leaves the expedition without evidence that the aircraft came down on the island.
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