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Telegraph
8 hours ago
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- Telegraph
Plane carrying six crashes off San Diego coast
Six people are feared dead after a light aircraft plummeted into the Pacific Ocean three miles south-west of San Diego, California. The twin-engined Cessna 414 crashed on Sunday at lunchtime. It was the second accident involving a private plane in the area within a matter of weeks. According to the US coastguard, which sent a helicopter, two rescue boats and a light aircraft to the scene, there was no sign of survivors. The seven-seat Cessna took off from San Diego for Phoenix, Arizona and crashed less than 30 minutes later. Local reports said the pilot told air traffic controllers that the plane was struggling to maintain its altitude before plunging into the ocean. Plane crashed into water at 'high speed' 'A debris field has been located, but I do not currently have the size of it,' coastguard Petty Officer Ryan Graves told NBC 7. 'I saw him come down at an angle. He wasn't flying straight to the ground,' Tyson Wislofsky, a witness, told the station. 'The next time he came out of the clouds, he went straight into the water. But after I saw this splash, about six seconds later, it was dead silent. I knew that they went in the water, nose first, at a high speed.' The first Cessna 414 entered service in 1968, and an updated version was introduced in 1978. 'This is a twin-engine turbo, a piston airplane, that can fly on one of the two engines. So you could lose an engine,' Jim Kidrick, chief executive of the San Diego Air and Space museum, told ABC7. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are examining the cause of the accident. The worst crash involving a Cessna 414 took place in July 1982 when 12 people, including American Christian singer Keith Green, died shortly after taking off from a small airport in Texas. Investigations blamed the accident on the plane being overloaded.
Sky News AU
23-05-2025
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- Sky News AU
‘What was that?': Chilling footage from OceanGate tragedy reveals moment OceanGate CEO's wife hears catastrophic implosion
A terrifying recording released for the first time appears to pinpoint the moment crew aboard a support ship tracking the doomed Titan submersible realised the vessel was in danger. The new footage, which was released to the BBC by the US Coastguard, captures the moment Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, tries to contact her husband during their descent to the wreck of the Titanic. Mr Rush, Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shazhada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman lost their lives in the tragedy. Ms Rush, who was monitoring the sub's progress from a support ship, can be seen reacting to a sudden bang. Oblivious to the true cause of the sound, she then turns to a team member sitting behind her and asks 'what was that bang?' She unknowingly had just heard the moment the Titan submersible imploded - killing her husband and four others on board instantly. Moments later, Ms Rush received a text message saying the sub had dropped two weights. While she initially assumed this meant the sub was functioning normally, investigators now believe the 'bang' she heard was the moment the sub imploded. It is now suspected the phantom message she received was in fact sent just before the implosion but its arrival was delayed due to the sound of the implosion, the BBC has reported. The distressing video of Ms Rush forms evidence in the two-year long investigation by the US Coastguard Marine Board into the sub's catastrophic implosion. The bizarre maritime tragedy captured the world's attention after the Titan disappeared during its scheduled dive on June 18, 2023. It later became clear that the sub had been destroyed in a catastrophic implosion after fragments of the Titan were found in a debris field not far from the Titanic wreck.
Metro
23-05-2025
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- Metro
Oceangate CEO's wife asks chilling question after Titan submersible implosion
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The wife of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush unknowingly heard the moment her husband died when the Titan submersible imploded. New footage released by the US Coastguard shows Wendy Rush monitoring the sub's progress from a support ship during its doomed descent on June 18, 2023. The Titan submersible was attempting to reach the wreck of the Titanic 3,700metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean – but it imploded about an hour-and-a-half into the journey, killing all five people on board. As well as Mr Rush, adventurer Hamish Harding, father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet died on board the sub. They had paid to see the Titanic wreck. The new footage shows Wendy reacting to a noise which has been described as sounding like a door slamming. Chillingly, she turned and asked a colleague 'what was that bang?' with a smile, not realising she had just heard the moment of her husband's death. Wendy received a text message moments later, telling her the sub had dropped two weights, which meant she initially assumed the dive was going as planned. But the message was actually sent just before the implosion – and by the time it arrived everyone on board the sub was already dead, the BBC reports. The footage forms part of the US Coastguard's two-year investigation into the Titan's failure, and comes months after audio capturing the sub's final moments was published. More Trending An international hunt was launched after the sub lost contact with its support vessel, and the wreckage was found days later about 300metres off the bow of the Titanic. Last September, the US Coastguard held public hearings to question company executives over what could have gone wrong and caused the sub to implode. Since the implosion, Oceangate has suspended its operations and currently has no full-time employees. It said it has fully cooperated with investigations into the Titan disaster. The release of the footage comes as Netflix releases a trailer for its own documentary on the sub implosion, titled TITAN: The Oceangate Disaster. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Letter written on board the Titanic before it sank sells for record £300,000
