Moscow:

Three people were killed after a plane crashed in the Moscow Region, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement.

According to preliminary information, the plane, a Russian-designed Superjet 100, fell in a forest area in the Kolomensky district of the Moscow Region, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

The crash took place during a test flight after a scheduled repair, the TASS news agency reported.

No casualties have been reported among the local population.

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Lisbon:

Two small planes collided midair Sunday during an air show performance in southern Portugal, the air force said, with media reporting that one of the pilots was killed.

“The air force regrets to announce that at 4:05 pm (1505 GMT), at the Beja Air Show, two planes were the victim of an accident during an aerial demonstration” involving six aircraft, it said in a short statement.

Portuguese media reported that the pilot of one of the aircraft had died.

They identified the aircraft as two Yakovlev Yak-52, a Soviet-designed aerobatic training model.

The air force said emergency services were at the scene and organisers of the show at Beja airport had suspended the event.

A video filmed by a spectator and posted on social media showed a formation of six planes in flight, with one of them ascending, apparently touching one of the others and then crashing to the ground.

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Portuguese newspapers quoted witnesses as saying the six aircraft were part of an aerobatic group named the “Yak Stars”.

They said organisers of the event presented it as the biggest civil aerobatics group in southern Europe.

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Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Liron Petrushka and his wife Naomi were killed in a plane crash in California, the Guardian reported. The incident happened on Saturday night when the couple’s plane crashed as they were attempting to land at Truckee Tahoe airport in Northern California near the Nevada border.

The plane departed from Centennial Airport in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday at about 4.20 pm, according to FlightAware.

In a Facebook post, Truckee Tahoe airport officials wrote, ”The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are onsite investigating yesterday’s 6:38pm crash of a single-engine TBM N960LP that resulted in 2 fatalities on Union Pacific rail property south of Glenshire Drive, between the rail line and Truckee River.”

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The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the crash.

Notably, the couple were well-known Israeli tech investors and entrepreneurs living in California for the last few years. According to Fox News, Mr Petrushka started a successful tech company with his wife which later sold for $242 million. In recent years the couple had been involved in various tech initiatives and living in California. Their investments included Check, which was sold to American financial giant Intuit in 2014 for about $360 million and fintech unicorn Next Insurance. 

“We are devastated by the news of Liron and Naomi Petrushka’s tragic death. Our hearts are with the Petrushka family and their sons David, Scott, and Jordan,” wrote UpWest, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that Liron Petrushka joined in 2017. 

As per the Times of Israel, Liron Petrushka was also a former professional soccer player in Israel. 

The chairman of Petrushka’s former soccer team, Einav Hazenvald, said: “The club bows its head for the death of Liron Petrushka and his wife. Liron grew up in the club from the age of 10 and passed through all the teams, including the adults’ team. He played with me in the youth team, where we won the national championship, as well as in the adult team.”

They were survived by four children.

Sydney:

A light plane crashed in a rural area of Australia’s New South Wales state on Friday, killing the male pilot and three children who were on board, police said late on Friday.

The Cirrus SR22 took off from Canberra and crashed about 3 p.m. local time (0400 GMT) near the town of Queanbeyan which is roughly 290 kilometres (180 miles) from Sydney.

Emergency services responded to reports that a plane had crashed and was in flames, with firefighters extinguishing the blaze but there were no survivors, police said.

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Rio De Janeiro:

Fourteen people were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in the Brazilian Amazon in the northern town of Barcelos, a popular tourist stop, the governor of Amazonas state said.

Twelve passengers and two crew were killed in the accident, Governor Wilson Lima wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Brazilian media reports said there were no survivors of the crash.

State officials did not immediately respond to requests for further details.

News site G1 said the plane was an 18-passenger EMB-110, a twin-engine turboprop manufactured by Brazilian aircraft-maker Embraer.

It was reportedly on its way from the state capital, Manaus, to Barcelos, about a 90-minute flight.

Located on the Rio Negro, an Amazon tributary, it is bordered by several national parks and other protected areas.

News site UOL said the passengers were Brazilians traveling to the region for sport fishing, citing state security secretary Vinicius Almeida.

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