NEW DELHI, July 18 — A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source briefed on United States (US) officials' early assessment of evidence.

NEW DELHI, July 15 — India's civil aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing aeroplanes, reported Xinhua.

NEW DELHI, June 17 — India's aviation safety watchdog has asked Air India for the training records of the pilots and dispatcher for the plane that crashed last week as part of its investigation into the incident that killed at least 271 people, government memos showed.

BANGKOK, June 15 — The second black box from the Air India Boeing 787-8 plane has been found at the plane crash site, reported Sputnik/RIA Novosti quoting the NDTV broadcaster on Saturday.

NEW DELHI, June 15 — India's federal civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said keeping in view the utmost seriousness of the incident, another high-level committee has been formed to probe the deadly plane crash in the western state of Gujarat, reported Xinhua.

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI, June 14 — India's government is urgently inspecting all Boeing 787s after a devastating Air India crash that claimed at least 270 lives this week, the aviation minister said today, adding that the authorities were investigating all possible causes.

NEW DELHI, June 14 — The death toll from Thursday's (June 12) Air India plane crash near Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat has risen to 274, with 33 on-ground deaths having been confirmed.

BANGKOK, April 25 — Five police officers lost their lives and one sustained serious injuries after their aircraft crashed this morning in the Hua Hin district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

PUTRAJAYA, April 9 — The failure and in-flight separation of structural parts due to excessive operational stresses on the aircraft's weakened composite materials have been identified as the primary cause of the fatal plane crash in Kapar, Selangor, last year.

ASTANA, Feb 5 — An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 — Malaysia extended its condolences to Azerbaijan today following the tragic crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (December 25).

ISTANBUL, Dec 27 — A top Kazakh official said law enforcement agencies from Azerbaijan and Russia will not be allowed to participate in the forensic investigation of Wednesday's Azerbaijan Airlines (Azal) plane crash near the city of Aktau, Anadolu Agency reported.

BAKU, Dec 26 — An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

ASTANA, Dec 25 — An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying that 28 people had survived.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 14 — The final report on the crash of the Beechcraft Premier 1 aircraft in Elmina, Shah Alam, on August 17 last year will be released in a few days, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook.

VINHEDO, Brazil, Aug 10 — Brazilian civil defence teams worked through the night removing the remains of passengers on a plane that crashed on Friday near Sao Paulo, killing all 62 people on board.

HAARLEM, July 16 — A former deputy public prosecutor who led the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 case said the three men sentenced to life in prison for murdering 298 passengers will be put behind bars if they leave Russia.

WASHINGTON, June 18 — Boeing chief executive officer Dave Calhoun was grilled by United States lawmakers in a Senate hearing yesterday over the air giant’s growing safety and quality control crises.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 14 — The Selangor Fire and Rescue Department informed that the two victims onboard the BK 160 Gabriel light plane that crashed in Kampung Tok Muda, Kapar yesterday were found in the cockpit at a depth of five feet in the ground.

KLANG, Feb 14 — The autopsies for the two victims killed in the light plane crash in Kampung Tok Muda, Kapar yesterday afternoon will be conducted this morning at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, here.