Police will indict 10 former government, airline and airport officials, and seek sanctions for Airbus employees, in Brazil`s worst plane crash that killed 199 people in Sao Paulo in 2007, a top investigator said Wednesday.

Seven people died and one man survived a plane crash Sunday on an island off Canada`s rugged west coast, a rescue center spokesman told AFP.

French police launched a major search and rescue operation Sunday after a solo flyer`s aircraft vanished in the English Channel.

French police launched a substantial search and rescue operation Sunday after a solo flyer`s aircraft vanished in the English Channel.

JAKARTA, Oct 22, 2007 (AFP) - The pilot of an Indonesian jet that crash-landed in March, killing 21 people, ignored repeated warnings not to land, a final report into the disaster said Monday.

The Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737 slammed hard onto the runway in Yogyakarta on March 7, careened off the end of the air strip into rice paddies and burst into flames.

Twenty-one people, including five Australians, were killed among the 133 passengers and seven crew on board.

MOSCOW, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - A US-built helicopter crashed in an isolated part of Siberia on Sunday killing four people, authorities were quoted as saying.

The wreckage of the helicopter was found by a forest guard in a wooded region about 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of the city of Kemerovo, news agencies quoted Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov as saying.

The bodies of the pilot and of three passengers were found nearby. None were immediately identified and an investigation was started into the cause of the accident.

VANCOUVER, Canada, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - A pilot who died when his light airplane crashed into a ninth-floor suburban apartment was an 82-year old man who had been flying since he was a teenager, police said Saturday.

The six-seater Piper Seneca aircraft ploughed right into the apartment in a densely populated residential suburb of Vancouver just after taking off on Friday, injuring two people inside.

Police said the pilot had more than 60 years of flying experience, having started when he was 18.

VANCOUVER, Canada, Oct 20, 2007 (AFP) - One person died and two were injured Friday when a light aircraft smashed into a ninth-floor suburban apartment in this western Canadian metropolis, police said.

'There was one fatality believed to be the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft,' said a police statement.

The Piper Seneca, a twin-engine, six-seater aircraft, crashed into the densely populated residential neighborhood of Richmond just after lifting off from Vancouver International Airport Friday afternoon.

MONTREAL, Oct 20, 2007 (AFP) - One person died and two were injured Friday when a light aircraft smashed into a ninth-floor suburban apartment in this western Canadian metropolis, police said.

'There was one fatality believed to be the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft,' said a police statement.

The Piper Seneca, a twin-engine, six-seater aircraft, crashed into the densely populated residential neighborhood of Richmond just after lifting off from Vancouver International Airport Friday afternoon.

MONTREAL, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - A small plane crashed into a building Friday outside the Canadian Pacific coast city of Vancouver, local media reported.

The plane was circling above Richmond, a densely populated suburb of Vancouver, before plunging into a building, CBC television reported.

Several ambulances were at the scene of the crash, but no casualties were immediately reported.

The aircraft had taken off from Vancouver International Airport.