An Aviation Accident is defined by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board as: An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked.

An Aviation Accident is an occurrence on board an aircraft resulting in injury or death to one or more persons. On the other hand, an aviation incident is an occurrence other than an Aviation Accident ; associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations. If the damage to a plane is such that it must be written off or that it is totally destroyed, it is called a "hull-loss accident". Aviation Accident attorneys deal with these sorts of occurences.

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• Japan to send aviation expert to Indonesia (Japan Today)
  TOKYO — The transport ministry's Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission will send an expert to Indonesia later this month on a long-term mission to help enhance the Southeast Asian country's expertise in aviation accident investigations, commission officials said Wednesday.

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• Indonesia takes air safety standards back five years (The Australian)
  AIR safety has taken a significant backwards step, with crashes in Indonesia helping push this year's global aviation accident rate back to 2002 levels.

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• Rush to prosecute reignites debate on airline accident blame game (The Australian)
  A SWISS court's decision to find four air traffic controllers guilty of negligent homicide over a 2002 mid-air collision that killed 71, mainly Russian children, has brought into sharp focus the intense debate over aviation accident blame.

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• China ends fixed aviation accident insurance premium (Eastday.com)
  China's unified premium price of 20 yuan for aviation accident insurance will end from December 1, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced yesterday.

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• China ends fixed aviation accident insurance premium (China Daily)
  China's unified premium price of 20 yuan (US$2.66) for aviation accident insurance will end from December 1, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced Wednesday.

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• CHINA ENDS FIXED AVIATION ACCIDENT INSURANCE PREMIUM (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
  Regulations / Law   China's unified premium price of 20 yuan (US$2.66) for aviation accident insurance will end from December 1, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced here Wednesday.

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• China Ends Fixed Aviation Accident Insurance Premium (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
  China's unified premium price of 20 yuan (US$2.66) for aviation accident insurance will end from December 1, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced here Wednesday.

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• Rigid air travel insurance pricing ends (China Daily)
  The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) has issued a circular on strengthening the management of aviation accident insurance, and ending the unified pricing system for related insurance products, according to the 21st Century Business Herald.

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• Opinion: Mystery hero emerges from Thai air crash (New Straits Times)
  Thailand's deadliest aviation accident since 1998 would have been even deadlier were it not for a passenger who helped to force open an emergency exit for the stricken passengers to flee the burning aircraft, writes THOMAS FULLER.

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• Israel airport at peril for disaster (The Washington Times)
  Passengers traveling through Israel's Ben Gurion Airport are more likely to fall victim to an aviation accident rather...

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• FAA team of experts finds serious safety problems in Israeli skies (Haaretz Daily)
  Serious safety problems could lead to an aviation accident in the skies over Ben-Gurion Airport, a visiting team of experts from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has determined.

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• Editorial: Glory going down in blazes (Taipei Times)
  On Monday, another China Airlines jet crashed, marking the fourth aviation accident for the airline in the past 13 years. Many predict that this accident will aggravate the already poor financial situation of the company.

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• ASC urges cross-strait accident mechanism (Taipei Times)
  The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has thrown its support behind the Aviation Safety Council's (ASC) call for the establishment of a cross-strait aviation accident investigation mechanism, an ASC official said on Sunday.

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• Politics News (Taiwan Headlines)
  The Mainland Affairs Council has thrown its support behind an idea from the Aviation Safety Council to push for the establishment of a cross-Taiwan Strait aviation accident investigation mechanism, an ASC official said on Sunday.

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• MAC backs creation of cross-strait aviation investigation mechanism (Central News Agency)
  Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has thrown its support behind an idea from the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) to push for the establishment of a cross-Taiwan Strait aviation accident investigation mechanism, an ASC official said Sunday.

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• NTSB plans to announce cause of Kentucky crash in July (The Alliance Review)
  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has tentatively scheduled a public board meeting on July 26 regarding the Aug. 27, 2006, aviation accident involving Comair flight 5191 in Lexington, Ky. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the NTSB's Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza S.W., Washington, D.C.

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• Stanley McDonald Jr., Father of Tony-Winner Audra McDonald, Dies in Air Crash (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
  Stanley McDonald Jr., father of four-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald, died April 29 in an aviation accident near Olivehurst, CA, the Sacramento Bee reported.

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