The pilot and co-pilot of a Garuda Indonesia's airliner that crashed on landing in Indonesia, killing 21 people, were arguing moments before the accident about the aircraft's speed, a senior Indonesian investigator said.

Navigating a country of 17,500 islands scattered across three time zones has never been easy. Now it is downright scary for many air travelers.

An Airbus A310 flying between Berlin and Moscow crashed at a Moscow airport, a spokesman for Russia's emergency ministry said on Feb. 13.

Indonesia's Search and Rescue (SAR) mission Coordinator Air Commodore Eddy Suyanto said efforts to find the wreckage of the Adam Air plane that went missing during a flight from Java to North Sulawesi on January 1 had been stopped because the plane's black box had been located.

French gendarmes stand near a Fokker 28-100 after it over-ran the airport runway in Pau southern France, crashing into a truck and killing its driver, before continuing some 500 metres before stopping in a corn field, January 25, 2007. The some fifty passengers aboard the Regional (Air France Group) airline flight from Pau to Paris were evacuated by gendarmes.

The US Navy has picked up signals from the flight data recorders, or black boxes, of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed into the sea on New Year's Day with 102 people onboard, the US Embassy said on January 25.

On January 22, Indonesia's Adam Air promised to give 500 million rupiah (55,555 U.S. dollars) compensation to each passenger of its plane, which has disappeared since Jan. 1 when it was on its way from East Java's capital of Surabaya to North Sulawesi's capital of Manado.

The search and rescue (SAR) team has received an orange box, suspected as a black box of Indonesia's ill-fated Adam Air plane, which has been disappeared with 102 people aboard since Jan. 1 when it was on its way from Surabaya to Manado.

On January 17, the search team for a missing Indonesian passenger plane was reported of having detected a significant undersea metal object suspected to be the cabin recording device known as black box.

Seconds before the crash of a commuter jet that took off from the wrong runway, the co-pilot noted it was "weird" that the Lexington, Ky., airstrip had no lights, according to the transcript of a cockpit recording released on January 17.