Remembering the Zambia air disaster – ‘The boys would say: ‘This plane will kill us”

“The spirit of the 1993 team will always be there for Zambia.” Kalusha Bwalya, Zambia’s former football captain, is reflecting on the day that changed his life forever. On April 27, 1993, a military aircraft taking 18 of his team-mates and their coach to a World Cup qualifier against Senegal crashed shortly after refuelling in …

U.S. Air Force Says Osprey Crash Off Japan Left No Survivors

The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday that all eight of the airmen aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed in waters off southern Japan last week were believed to have been killed, and that the military was now focused on recovering their remains and debris from the aircraft. “The honorable service of these eight airmen …

U.S. Air Force Osprey Crashes in Southern Japan With 8 on Board

A U.S. military aircraft crashed near a small island off the coast of southern Japan on Wednesday with eight people onboard. The craft, a CV-22 Osprey operated by the U.S. Air Force, crashed close to 3 p.m. near Yakushima, according to a spokesman for Japan’s Coast Guard, which is conducting a rescue operation. The crash …