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January 21, 2021 Deadly U.S. Air Force E-11A Crash in Afghanistan Last Year Caused by Pilot Error Leading To Dual Engine Shutdown Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
January 21, 2021 About One Hour Before Biden Takes Office UAE Signs Deal With U.S. To Buy 50 F-35s and 18 MQ-9s F-35
January 20, 2021 Suspect Of Theft Of Radio Equipment From Russia’s Il-80 Doomsday Plane Arrested Military Aviation
January 20, 2021 First Greek F-16V Performs Maiden Flight After Block 72 Upgrade Military Aviation
January 19, 2021 U.S. Forces Conduct A New Multi-Domain Exercise With F-16s, KC-135s, P-8A And RQ-4B Over The Black Sea Troubled Areas

Scandal in the Russian VIP transport unit: 70 pilots flying illegally

January 16, 2014 Jacek Siminski

Eight pilots of the special Rossiya Aviation Unit, responsible for the VIP transport in the Russian Federation, may have not legally obtained the required flying licenses according to Life News. The Rosaviatsiya agency (Federal Air […]

Missiles launched at Russian passenger jet over Syria: known and unknown facts.

April 29, 2013 Richard Clements

Media outlets are reporting that a Russian passenger jet that was flying from the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh (although some sources say the flight departed from Hurgada) to the Russian city of Kazan, in Russia’s […]