Two people were killed today in a plane crash close to Oxford Airport, the BBC reports.
The two-seater plane came down and burst into flames, just after 14:00 at Grove Road in Bladon, close to the main A44.
The type of plane involved in the crash is not yet known.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch sent a team to the scene to investigate.

The mystery surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, in an aircraft crash more than forty years ago may finally have been solved by a report which quashes decades of conspiracy theories and says that his death was caused by his panicked reaction after realising that an air vent in his cockpit was open.
Independent Russian investigators say they have uncovered crucial new evidence which finally reveals how the world’s first man …

Four runaway coaches of a long-distance train overran the buffers and crashed into the office wing of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Finland’s capital Helsinki today, Helsingin Sanomat reports.
Nobody was seriously hurt in the incident that happened around 8:30am today, as the employees of the accounting firm Ernst & Young located in the office wing narrowly escaped the crash. The scope of the damage to the hotel building is not known yet, but …

An El-Al passenger jet bound for New York nearly collided with an Air France airliner over the skies of Belgrade on Monday, Jerusalem Post reports.
Serbian air controller erroneously instructed the Air France airplane to fly on a route already used by the El Al plane, thus putting the jets on a collision course.
The two planes were about to crash in midair, but emergency alarms alerted both pilots and the El-Al plane changed course at the …

For the second time in a week, Blackberry users across the US are having problems getting their e.mail, The Inquirer reports.
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) confirmed that some users of the smartphone in the Americas were experiencing delays in message delivery. A spokesman said that their technical teams were working to resolve the issue for those impacted and said sorry to punters.
But RIM has been short of reasons for the outage or the extent …

An American Airlines flight from Miami with more than 150 aboard overshot a runway while landing during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston yesterday, injuring more than 40 people, Fox News reports.
Flight 331 skidded across a road at Norman Manley International Airport and halted at the edge of the Caribbean Sea, apparently prevented from going into the water only by the upward slope of the sand. The nose of the jet was less than 10 feet …

Thousands of iPhone users on the O2 network have been unable to use their smart phones properly, after the mobile phone operator’s network crashed for almost 48 hours, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Some users have been unable to access the internet on their Apple phone, making many of the popular applications – which allow customers to shop, check train times or catch up on the news – redundant. Users trying to access applications or the internet …

Disgraced former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore is seeking one million euro in compensation as part of the legal action appealing against his lifelong from F1, planet-f1.com reports.
Earlier this year, Briatore was effectively banned from Formula One for life for his part in Renault’s race-fixing scandal, which FIA said was of “unparalleled severity”. The flamboyant Italian’s punishment was the more severe of those handed out as Renault were only given a two-year suspended ban while …

A US Coast Guard plane and a military helicopter crashed yesterday off the coast of southern California, about 16 miles east of San Clemente island, nine people are missing, the BBC reports.
A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman said a pilot reported seeing a fireball near the area.
The plane – reported to be a C-130 aircraft – is believed to have had seven people on board. The Marine Corps said the other aircraft was an AH-1 Super …

Fourteen Americans were killed in Afghanistan on Monday in two separate incidents involving helicopters, the New York Times reports.
Seven American soldiers and three civilians were killed in a helicopter crash in western Afghanistan, and in southern Afghanistan, the midair collision of two coalition helicopters resulted in the deaths of four US soldiers.
Military spokeswoman, Captain Elizabeth Mathias said that gunfire from insurgents was not to blame for the collision. She would not specify an exact location for …

A water buffalo which had wandered onto the rail track caused a deadly collision between two passenger trains in Egypt today, 18 people were killed and 39 injured, SkyNews reports.
The crash happened south-west of the capital Cairo.
The accident began after the first train struck the animal and then stopped. But the service was then hit from the back by a second train which was travelling at full speed.
The first train was travelling from Giza province to …

A British pilot drowned after saving the lives of nine passengers by ditching his plane into the sea when one of his engines failed, The Times reports.
Robert Mansell, 32, was hailed as a hero after carrying out a forced landing of a light aircraft in the Caribbean between the islands of Curaçao and Bonaire. Last night it emerged that his final words to air traffic controllers were: “I’ve lost control of one of my engines …

Six people were killed after a cargo plane crashed on take-off from Sharjah airport in United Arab Emirates, gulfnews.com reports.
The Sudanese registered plane, believed to be a Boeing 707, veered sharply to the right after take-off and flipped before crashing. The name of the airline has yet to be confirmed.
Khaled al-Qassimi, director of civil aviation at Sharjah airport, said that rescue personnel haven’t so far found any of the crew. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the plane “flip and …

A passenger train crashed into another train’s rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 21 people and injuring 17 who remained trapped for hours Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, The Times of India reports.
Rescuers used gas cutters to open the wrecked compartment to free trapped passengers following the collision near Agra, the site of the famed white-marble monument about 130 miles south-east of New Delhi.
Rescuers recovered 19 bodies during a …

Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore is to launch legal proceedings against motorsport’s governing body the FIA to overturn a ban imposed on him, the BBC reports.
The Italian was penalised for his role in Renault’s attempt to fix last year’s Singapore Grand Prix by asking driver Nelson Piquet Jr to crash deliberately. The FIA indefinitely banned Briatore from events they sanction and forbade him from managing drivers.
Briatore said the “FIA has been used as a tool …

The internet connection for the whole of Sweden went down for almost an hour when routine maintenance broke every single .se address, the Daily Telegraph reports.
At 9:45pm local time (8:45pm BST) on Monday, every Swedish website went down, and no emails to or from Swedish domains could be received. Around 900,000 domains were affected.
The problem was caused by an “incorrectly configured script” in an update of the .se domain, according to Pingdom, a Swedish web monitoring …