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A British air force plane at Istanbul airport in Istanbul on Tuesday. According to reports the plane arrived to transport medical equipment back to the UK. Photograph: Ibrahim Mase/AP An RAF plane, believed to be carrying a delayed consignment of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS staff, has landed in the UK. Flight tracker RadarBox…

A flight carrying personal protective equipment has arrived in the UK from Turkey, following days of delays.It has on board part of an 84-tonne load of equipment, which includes clinical gowns, urgently needed by front line health workers as they treat COVID-19 patients in the UK. The Royal Air Force plane arrived at Brize Norton…

An RAF plane collecting crucial PPE for the coronavirus battle is still grounded in Turkey today with ministers admitting the desperately-needed supplies might not be in the UK for days.  The government originally declared that the 84 tonnes of life-saving equipment would arrive on Sunday, but it failed to turn up. They then claimed it would…

Manila, Philippines (CNN)A Tokyo-bound plane crashed while taking off from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the Philippines capital city of Manila on Sunday, killing all eight on board, airport personnel told CNN.All passengers on board Lion Air Flight RPC 5880 died after the plane caught fire as it was taking off from the airport, according…

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRescuers work to free people stuck in the crashed planeA passenger plane landing at an airport in Istanbul has skidded off the runway and broken into three parts, killing one person and injuring more than 150, officials say.The Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 171 passengers and six…

Istanbul: A plane carrying 177 people skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport, caught fire and split into three after landing in rough weather on Wednesday.Officials said that no-one had lost their lives in the spectacular accident, but dozens of people were injured.Live images broadcast on Turkish television showed several people climbing through a…

A plane has skidded off an airport runway in Istanbul, causing the jet to split into three pieces, Turkish media reports.The country's transport minister Cahit Turhan has said no one has died in the crash at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport, adding that the incident was the result of a "rough landing". Officials say that 52…

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)All 183 people on board a passenger plane survived after it skidded off the runway and broke apart while landing at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport.Twenty-one people were injured in Wednesday's accident and taken to hospital, Istanbul's governor Ali Yerlikaya said. The Pegasus Airlines plane was carrying 177 people and six crew members, according…

Boeing 767-300 suffers engine and tyre damage on takeoff from Barajas airport The plane circled near Madrid for four hours to burn off fuel before making its emergency landing. Photograph: GW Ortega/AP An Air Canada Boeing 767 with 128 passengers onboard has made an emergency landing in Madrid due to technical problems after taking off…