Aviation

Two fighter jets collided in the sky over France

Two Alpha Jet aircraft from the French aerobatic team Patrouille de France collided and crashed during a training flight in eastern France, according to Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

The pilots ejected safely. One of the jets crashed on the grounds of a concrete manufacturing plant; no injuries were reported.

Local media report that the Alpha Jet pilots are on a four-day mission at Air Base 113 in Saint-Dizier.

ℹ️ Previously, on August 14, 2024, two Rafale fighter jets from Air Base 113 in Saint-Dizier collided in mid-air. The pilot of the first aircraft managed to eject before the collision. Captain Sébastien Mabire and Lieutenant Mathis Lorens, who were aboard the second aircraft, died.

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On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of Brindisi, near a small plane components factory.

Five years on, that routine pollution case has spiralled into a wide-ranging judicial investigation into how thousands of flawed titanium and aluminium parts manufactured in Italy ended up in nearly 500 Boeing 787 jets still in use.

The probe focuses on how tiny aero-part-maker Manufacturing Process Specification (MPS) allegedly defrauded clients by using cheaper and weaker metals to make floor fittings and other plane parts. Company executives deny the charge.

But the precarious chain of events that led detectives to the alleged scam, including the surprise pollution find, raises broader questions about the failure by the aerospace industry's own voluntary audit system to detect sub-standard components.

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Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, ultimately landing upside down amid wintry conditions.

The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.

Peel Regional Paramedic Services confirmed to CBS News that 15 patients had been transported to the hospital. Out of those injuries, one child and two adults are critically injured. The rest of the injuries are minor to moderate, officials said. 

All crew and passengers have been accounted for.

The plane was presumably a medical transport with two pilots, two doctors, a patient and a family member.