GABORONE, April 27 (Xinhua) -- An army pilot lost his life in a BF5 fighter aircraft crash which occurred on Friday in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, during the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Day Celebration rehearsals, said a statement issued by Botswana Defence Force.

The army spokesperson major Fana Maswabi confirmed the incident but refused to release the names of the deceased until his next of kin have been informed.

"As a matter of urgency, the Commander has directed the appointment of an investigating team to examine the cause of the crash," Maswabi said.

The BDF will continue with its 41st anniversary celebrations on Saturday. </s> MASVINGO– A small plane went down in Tokwane-Ngundu, Masvingo Province, on Friday morning killing five people including four tourists from Finland.

The Zimbabwean pilot of the Cessna 182 aircraft, who died in the crash, has been named as Barry Style.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe has sent accident investigators to the scene.

The plane crashed into a rocky outcrop and broke apart. So dismembered were the bodies of the five victims that first responders at the horrific scene initially thought they had three victims.

‘There were four Finnish citizens and their pilot in the plane, they all died,’ Sally Ward told AFP.

‘It was cloudy and they were trying to get above the clouds.’

The accident occurred near Renco, a gold mine on the outskirts of Masvingo, police spokesman Paul Nyathi said.

‘It was cloudy and they were trying to get above the clouds.’

The accident occurred near Renco, a gold mine on the outskirts of Masvingo, police spokesman Paul Nyathi said.

According to ZimLive the passengers were flying from Buffalo Range Airport in Chiredzi to the country’s famous Victoria Falls.

The bodies were said to have been so badly destroyed in the crash that emergency services initially thought only three had died, it is claimed.

Investigators also found a Finnish identity card and a passport at the scene, police said. </s> TORONTO — A pilot is dead after a Canadian CF-18 fighter jet crashed in western Canada during a training mission.

Canadian Forces spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier confirmed that the pilot died in Monday's crash.

He said the plane was based out of Alberta's Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, the busiest fighter base in Canada. It provides fighter training for all Canadian Forces pilots.

Speaking in Ottawa, Air Force commander Lt.-Gen. Michael Hood said the plane came down on the Saskatchewan side of the border between the provinces during a routine training mission.

Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said he couldn't speculate on what caused the crash. A helicopter from the base was dispatched to the crash site.

The Canadian government announced last week that it would look to buy 18 Super Hornet jet fighters from Boeing to replace Canada's aging fleet of CF-18s. Canada is also holding an open competition to buy dozens more planes over the next five years. Canada remains part of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. </s> Four Finnish tourists on a hunting expedition have died in a plane crash in Zimbabwe.

The crash on Friday also killed their pilot Barry Style, the Finnish consul in the African country said today.

The plane, reported to be a Cessna-182 light aircraft, crashed near Zimbabwe's southern city of Masvingo.

'There were four Finnish citizens and their pilot in the plane, they all died,' Sally Ward told AFP.

'It was cloudy and they were trying to get above the clouds.'

The accident occurred near Renco, a gold mine on the outskirts of Masvingo, police spokesman Paul Nyathi said.

According to ZimLive the passengers were flying from Buffalo Range Airport in Chiredzi to the country's famous Victoria Falls.

The bodies were said to have been so badly destroyed in the crash that emergency services initially thought only three had died, it is claimed.

Investigators also found a Finnish identity card and a passport at the scene, police said. </s> A total of 11 people died in a bus crash on the N1 in Mookgopong near Modimolle on Monday morning‚ Limpopo police.

"It is alleged that the bus was travelling from Gauteng Province towards Polokwane in the early hours of today on Monday with 55 passengers and five drivers when it lost control and overturned. During this accident‚ 11 out of 60 where certified dead at the scene‚ all the drivers and other passengers sustained serious injuries and were taken to various hospitals for medical treatment‚" said Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe.

The bus was believed to have been bound for Zambia. </s> Four Finns on a hunting expedition died in a plane crash Friday that also killed their pilot near Zimbabwe's southern city of Masvingo, the Finnish consul's wife told AFP.

"There were four Finnish citizens and their pilot in the plane, they all died," Sally Ward told AFP.

"It was cloudy and they were trying to get above the clouds."

Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the accident occurred near Renco, a gold mine on the outskirts of Masvingo and that investigators had found a Finnish identity card and a passport at the scene. </s> BERLIN, July 2 — A German armed forces helicopter crashed in northern Germany yesterday, killing one pilot and injuring another, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said.

The pilot who survived the crash of the Eurocopter EC135 was being treated in hospital, von der Leyen told reporters.

“The cause of the crash is so far completely unclear,” von der Leyen said, adding that the military would investigate the incident thoroughly. “This is a tragic moment for us.”

Both pilots had undergone comprehensive training to fly the EC135 and had each completed 450 flight hours and were training as flight instructors, she said.

The incident comes a week after one pilot was killed when two unarmed German Eurofighter jets collided over northeastern Germany. — Reuters </s> Five people have died after a small aircraft crashed into a supermarket in the town of Tires, just west of Lisbon.

Portuguese media say the victims were the pilot, three passengers and a lorry driver, whose vehicle was hit. Three of the dead were French citizens and one Swiss, reports said. </s> Fourteen people on board a plane in central Colombia were killed on Saturday after it lost contact with air traffic control and crashed following technical problems, AFP reported. Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority said the DC-3 aircraft had declared an emergency on Saturday morning while en route to Villavicencio.

The twin-engine propeller plane, owned by Laser Aereo airlines, had departed from the town San José del Guaviare. It was forced to stop over in at San José del Guaviare because of poor weather, BBC reported. It crashed near its destination of Villavicencio and the wreckage was discovered an hour after air traffic control lost contact with the plane.

The country’s Civil Aeronautics later in a statement on Twitter named all the 14 people, including the pilot and co-pilot, who died in the accident. According to Reuters, the deceased also included the mayor of a small town in the province of Vaupes.
A Botswanan CF-5 fighter jet crashes in Gaborone, killing the pilot.