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An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr on Jan. 27, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing.

Bulgaria will be selecting among four offers of multi-purpose jet fighters to regenerate its ageing fleet of Soviet MiG-29 planes, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

The four options came from Italy, the US and Sweden.

US contractor Lockheed Martin has proposed the newest version of its F-16 Fighting Falcon platform, the fourth generation F-16V "Viper".

Qatar has signed a $12-billion contract to buy F-15 fighter jets from the US, the country's defense ministry reported. The deal was announced just days after US President Trump accused Doha of supporting terrorism.

An airliner skidded off a runway at New York's La Guardia airport on March 6 and slid to a halt just yards from frigid waters, as a snow storm battered the US coast from Texas to Boston.
      
Heavy snow was falling as Delta flight 1086 from Atlanta careered off the runway, plowed up an embankment and demolished a fence after its late-morning landing in hazardous conditions.

Authorities said on July 24 they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly half of them French, en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria.