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A Sunward SA 60L Aurora light aircraft (B-12PP) crashed in Beijing. Footage from the scene indicate the aircraft had hit the China Zun CITIC Tower, a 109-story, 528-metre (1,732 ft) building. nitter.gq/i/status/2070468242691…

BEA France is investigating a serious runway incursion incident at Nice Airport in which a Nouvelair Airbus A320 on final approach to runway 04R, overflew an easyJet A320 that had lined up the same runway. info: asn.flightsafety.org/wikibas…

The night-time collision between a Gol Boeing 737 MAX 8 and a maintenance vehicle on the runway at Rio de Janeiro/Galeão Airport in February, occurred after the air traffic controller cleared the flight for takeoff without visually scanning the runway, according to a newly released investigation report. Earlier he had removed the warning from his computer screen that a maintenance vehicle was occupying the runway. The supervisor, who had cleared the vehicle to enter the runway, did not notice as he was distracted while handling a mobile phone. The investigation noted a climate of excessive informality in the control tower, tolerance for cell phone use, and non-operational conversations. Details: asn.flightsafety.org/wikibas…

An Aerospool WT-9 Dynamic (YR-5259) crashed after hitting a zip-line cable at the Aquapark Oraştie, Romania. One occupant perished and another was seriously injured.

A Cessna 172 crashed near Lognes, France, when the pilot, on his first flight after obtaining his PPL, overflew a highway at low altitude. The newly released BEA report states that the aircraft then struck powerlines and crashed onto the road, killing the pilot and his two passengers. His lack of experience, combined with navigational errors (wrong position reports) , may have caused significant stress and contributed to difficulties managing the situation, according to the BEA. asn.flightsafety.org/wikibas…

A Robinson R44 helicopter crashed on takeoff from Bird Island, South Africa, when a penguin 🐧 in a cardboard box slid from the passenger's grip on to the pilot's cyclic pitch control lever. The accident occurred on 19 Jan. The occupants, including the penguin, were unharmed.

Delta Connection flight DL4819, a CRJ-900 operated by Endeavor Air , suffered an accident during landing at Toronto-Pearson International Airport, ON (YYZ).

The Kazakh Ministry Transport published a preliminary report on the December 25 crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines ERJ-190 at Aktau gov.kz/uploads/2025/2/4/84f9… (PDF, in Russian)

A Cessna 550 Citation II was departing Barranquilla Airport, Colombia when the front right cargo bay door opened, causing items to be ingested by engine no.2, according to a newly released preliminary report.

Reports are coming in of an accident at Aktau Airport, Kazakhstan involving an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer ERJ-190.