An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 passengers (82 passengers and eight crew) on board had crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The accident happened around 1:46 local time at the coast of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The plane, a Boeing 737, disappeared from the radar a few minutes after takeoff and crashed into the sea. It was probably hit by lightning. The Lebanese president Suleiman doesn’t think terrorists are involved. This morning four bodies were discovered in the sea. There are also unconfirmed reports of seven survivors.

Eyewitnesses near the village Na’ameh (7 miles south of Beirut) along the coast, first saw a fireball and then saw the burning plane crashing in the sea. A heavy storm (thunder and lightning, torrential rain and strong wind) would have caused the disaster. An official at the Beirut airport said the plane was hit by lightning before it crashed in the sea.

Let’s hope they find more survivors!

This morning (15/07/2009) a plane crashed in the north of Iran. Another tragedy where everybody on board died. There were 168 people on board of the Tupolev (kind of plane) and the name of the airline was Caspain Airlines. The main reason was lack of maintenance, AGAIN! The plane was flying from Tehran (Iran) to Jerevan (Armenia). It crashed on a field near Janat Abad. A city in Qavin (Iran).

The plane took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, it was only 16 minutes in the air when it crashed. It was totaly destroyed… Serob Karapetian (chief of Yeveran airport’s aviation security service) said the plane probably attemted an emergancy landing. One person said that he saw that the plane caught fire in the air, but they don’t believe him.

Also among the passengers were eight members of Iran’s national youth judo team, along with two trainers and a delegation chief, who were scheduled to train with the Armenian judo team before attending competitions in Hungary on 06/08/2009.

Okay enough said I think… Why doesn’t anybody do something about all of this. This is maybe the third or fourth major plane crash this year. Let’s say that approximately 500 or 600 people died. That’s way to much! It should be ZERO. I know they try to do there best to make sure that no more planes will crash, but they have to do better! They have to maintain a shedule where they check every plane when he lifts off… It’s always the lack of maintenance that kills people.

So let us hope it will be the last plane crash this year, or lets say this decade!!!

An Airbus A330 from France Air with 228 passengers. It’s like the wierdest story ever. You almost cannot believe it. The plane just vanished from the radars. It appeared to be in a massive tropical storm. The plain flew from Rio de Janiero to Paris. The area where the plane crashed is known as the “horse latitudes,” where the tropics of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres mix, sometimes creating violent and unpredictable thunderstorms that can rise to 55,000 feet, higher than commercial jetliners can go.

Experts were at a loss to explain fatal damage from lightning or a tropical storm, both of which jetliners face routinely, despite efforts to avoid them — as much out of concern for passengers’ nerves as for the planes’ safety.

Pilots are trained to go over or around thunderstorms rather than through them. Brigitte Barrand, an Air France spokeswoman, said the highly experienced pilot, a 58-year-old Frenchman, had clocked 11,000 flying hours, including 1,100 hours on Airbus 330 jets.

The two co-pilots, also French, were 37 and 32 years old, and both had thousands of flight hours in Airbus A330s, the company said. 

Air France and the transportdepartment of France allready revealed the passenger list. They say there where 73 Frenchmen, 57 Brazilian, 26 Germans, 9 Italian, 6 Swiss, 5 Englishmen 2 Belgians en 1 Dutchmen on board.

Brazil’s air force said the last contact they had with the jet was at 1.36am. Forty minutes later it sent a signal indicating severe storms. Air France said the message showed the jet “crossed through a thunderous zone with extreme turbulence”. Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were still combing large parts of the Atlantic ocean today in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air France jet.