Australian Transport Safety Bureau
The plane crashed
There were a total of 7 passengers in it with the pilot.
A small plane flew over the runway on the southern part of Rat Island.
Unofficially, the pilot and passengers were unharmed after the aircraft fell into the water, but as a precaution, they were taken to the hospital for examination.
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Ships Searching for Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Wreckage Make Unexpected Find
METRO UK - Ships searching for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have made an unexpected find in the Indian Ocean. A team discovered two large shipwrecks while combing the water for remains of the doomed flight that vanished in 2014, with 239 people on board.
Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia
A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said March 15, as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight.
The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on Feb. 19 when there was a loud explosion.
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Video of Melbourne plane crash (videos-photos)
Four US citizens and an Australian pilot have died after their light plane crashed into a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia.
The charter flight appeared to have had a “catastrophic engine failure” shortly after taking off from the small Essendon Airport, said police.
Despite the destruction, no-one was killed or injured on the ground.
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Australia 'increasingly confident' wreckage is from MH370
Authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on July 31 they were "increasingly confident" that wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island was from the ill-fated jet, raising hopes of solving one of aviation's great mysteries.
Malaysia Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Australia
A Malaysia Airlines passenger flight made an emergency landing in Melbourne on June 12 after its aircraft systems signalled an engine fire, Australian authorities said, with the carrier grounding the jet for inspections.
MH370 search finds uncharted shipwreck
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has uncovered a previously uncharted shipwreck, leading officials to say May 13 that if the plane is in their search zone they will find it.
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Fourth ship joins MH370 underwater search
A fourth ship with enhanced search capabilities has been commissioned to join the underwater hunt for missing flight MH370, Australian authorities said Jan. 14, with 14,000 square kilometres (5,405 square miles) of the sea floor scoured so far.
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‘Highly likely’ MH370 on autopilot when it went down: Australia
Investigators looking into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane are confident the jet was on autopilot when it crashed in a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean, Australian officials said June 26 as they announced the latest shift in the search for the doomed airliner.
Australia rules out swathe of ocean as MH370 crash zone
Australia on Thursday ruled out a large swathe of Indian Ocean as Flight MH370's final resting place after a lengthy underwater hunt, as a US Navy official queried whether the missing plane ever went there.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre said that the search in an area using a mini sub where acoustic transmissions were detected in early April was now complete.