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'Alive': Uruguay plane crash survivors savour life 50 years on

12-10-2022 23:03 On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying an amateur Uruguayan rugby team, along with relatives and supporters, to an away match in Chile crashed in the Andes with 45 people on board. Sixteen young men managed to survive for 72 days, in sub-zero temperatures and with very little food, before two found help after a 10-day trek across the mountains in waist-deep snow.

Judge takes statements from five crew-members of grounded Venezuela plane

30-09-2022 16:53 Judge Federico Villena has taken preliminary statements from five crew members from a Venezuelan cargo plane grounded at Ezeiza International Airport since June.

March in Caracas protests against detained plane in Argentina

10-08-2022 23:33 #DevuelvanElAvión rally lashes out at Argentina’s retention of a Venezuelan freight plane with Iranian crew.

US seizes cargo plane sold from Iranian to Venezuelan airline

03-08-2022 15:46 Argentinian authorities seized the cargo plane in June on the request of the USA. The Iranian and Venezuelan crew members were kept in Buenos Aires to investigate potential links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

AMIA commemoration sounds new alert over Iranian plane

20-07-2022 12:40 Ceremony marking the 28th anniversary of the terrorist attack is dominated by a Jewish community deploring impunity alongside its grief, minimal government presence.

Don’t shed light on the dark

02-07-2022 07:00 Straight news, half-truths, omissions and fake news – the case of the grounded Venezuelan plane with the Iranian crew grounded at an airport in Argentina is a very interesting case study for analysis.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

A motley crew – in the air and on the ground

18-06-2022 07:53 A Venezuelan cargo plane with mysterious Iranians is a random factor entering out of the blue for a government sinking ever deeper into the red, concealing as much as reflecting more substantial issues.

Mystery over Iranians on grounded Venezuelan plane at Ezeiza deepens

17-06-2022 09:13 Boeing 747 cargo plane, reportedly carrying car parts, has been held at an airport in Argentina since Wednesday last week, its 14 Venezuelan and five Iranian crew prevented from leaving the country pending investigations.

'Tango D10S': Aircraft presented in tribute to Maradona

26-05-2022 19:56 Adorned with images and memorabilia in a travelling tribute to the late player, the 'Tango D10S' aircraft is aiming for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Inquest: Emiliano Sala likely unconscious before fatal air crash

18-03-2022 11:09 Argentine footballer died in a plane crash having inhaled toxic levels of carbon monoxide from the aircraft's faulty exhaust system.

UK court told man accused over Emiliano Sala's plane crash was not 'reckless'

26-10-2021 14:31 The lawyer defending a man on trial over the 2019 plane crash that killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala said on Tuesday his involvement in the tragedy was "purely a paperwork issue."

Owner of plane in Emiliano Sala crash 'forbade use of pilot'

20-10-2021 10:41 The owner of a plane that crashed with Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala on board told a UK court on Wednesday she had ordered the operator not to use the pilot.