From mishaps to tragedies, the flight industry has already had a rough 2024

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Here are eight flight incidents passengers faced in early 2024, from the tragic crash in Japan to plane engines catching on fire.

A deadly Boeing 737 crash in China is still shrouded in mystery as the government says it found nothing abnormal before the plane nose-dived

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A plane carrying the second black box of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 27, 2022 in Beijing, China.
A plane carrying the second black box of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 27, 2022 in Beijing, China.

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2 people were killed in a midair plane collision in Kenya, police say

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Nairobi National Park.

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Two people were killed Tuesday following a midair plane collision in Kenya, police said, according to The Associated Press.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin faces wrongful-death lawsuit from pilot's widow over fatal plane crash

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Sergey Brin is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit in California stemming from the death of two pilots on a plane the complaint says the Google cofounder chartered to Fiji.

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Russian planes starved of spare parts are running into safety incidents twice as often as they were before the war

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Law enforcement officers standing next to a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 passenger plane in September 2023. The plane had to make an emergency landing in an open Siberian field.
Law enforcement officers standing next to a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 passenger plane in September 2023. The plane had to make an emergency landing in an open Siberian field.

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Russian businessman and wife believed to have been on private medical evacuation flight that crashed in Afghanistan, reports say

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An aerial view of the snow-capped Pamir mountains in the Wakhan district of Badakhshan province,
An aerial view of the snow-capped Pamir mountains in the Wakhan district of Badakhshan province,

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The captain of a plane that collided with a Japan Airlines jet said he was cleared for takeoff, but air-traffic-control transcripts tell a different story

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An aerial view shows burnt Japan Airlines' (JAL) Airbus A350 plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan January 3, 2024
The wreckage of the Japan Airlines A350.

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What we know about the Japan Airlines plane crash

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This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024.
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024.

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Nearly 40 years ago, a Japan Airlines crash killed over 500 people, cost the airline millions, and made ridership plummet

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Rescuers searching for survivors at the site of the crash on August 13, 1985.

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What it was like inside the burning Japan Airlines plane — from the passengers who survived

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Firefighters work at Haneda International Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire, in Tokyo, Japan January 2, 2024.
Firefighters work at Haneda Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire in Tokyo.

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