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The Kamchatka Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring reported that fog and drizzle were present in the area of the crash. [13] The wreckage was found in a hilly area at an elevation of 900 metres (3,000 ft) near the point of the last communication, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from its destination at Nikolayevka , Yelizovsky ...
Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later. 11 August 1979
Moscow accuses Kyiv of downing the Ilyushin Il-76 plane in Russia's Belgorod region and killing 74 people on board, including 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers en route to be swapped for Russian ...
Brittney Griner runs up court during a U.S. women's basketball gold-medal game against Japan at the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021. Grinner has been detained in Russia since February. (Charlie ...
Ukraine has yet to comment on what happened. The crash took place just northeast of Belgorod in western Russia, close to the border with Ukraine. Belgorod region has been the target of frequent ...
2023 Gao Ilyushin Il-76 crash, the crash of another plane with suspected Wagner ties one month later. Lin Biao incident (13 September 1971), a suspicious aircraft crash which killed Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Lin Biao after he allegedly tried to assassinate Mao Zedong [89] [90] Suspicious deaths of notable Russians in 2022–2024
Viktor Bout in the custody of DEA agents on November 16, 2010, after being extradited to the United States. Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand on March 6, 2008, after being the target of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation, in which U.S. agents, claiming to represent the Colombian rebel group FARC, negotiated with Bout for the supply of 100 9K38 Igla surface-to-air ...