Canberra, June 28 : Three people were killed and another injured after a light plane crashed near Australia’s Mount Gambier region on Wednesday, a media report said. The plane, identified by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) as a TB10 Tobago, crashed into a paddock just outside the regional centre at around 10.30 am, Xinhua […]
Sydney : An AirAsia flight to Malaysia was forced back to Australia on Sunday due to a technical problem, with one passenger saying the plane was “shaking like a washing machine”. The Airbus A330 from Perth to Kuala Lumpur experienced problems about 90 minutes into the journey.It landed safely, with Perth Airport reporting a “technical issue”.“The pilot […]
Melbourne, June 22 : An Australian man died on Thursday after catching a rare mosquito-borne disease while on holiday overseas. The 60-year-old Victoria state resident contracted Japanese encephalitis while on a 10-day holiday in Southeast Asia in May, reports Xinhua news agency. He died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), where he spent more than […]
Sydney : A China Eastern flight bound for Shanghai was forced to turn back to Sydney due to a mid-air emergency, a spokeswoman for the airline said on Monday, with pictures showing a gaping hole in the casing of one of the plane’s engines. The plane, which data from flight tracking website FlightAware showed was […]
Bunbury : A bodyboarder swimming close to shore survived a close encounter with a large shark Sunday after being bumped by the marine predator off Western Australia. The man, named by local media as Paul Goff, was reportedly just 50 metres (164 feet) off Point Casuarina in Bunbury in the morning when he was bumped off […]