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Indonesia’s meteorological agency announced on Sunday that bad weather had been the triggering factor in the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501.
According to a preliminary report of the Indonesian meteorological agency, BMKG, as cited by the BBC News, icing may have caused the engine to stall.
BMKG claimed that the plane had probably flown into a storm.
The Airbus A320-200 crashed into the Java Sea en route from Indonesia's second city Surabaya to Singapore last Sunday with 162 people on board.
By Sunday, a total of 31 bodies had been recovered from the Java Sea.
The search teams are still looking for the plane's black boxes, with five major parts of the aircraft uncovered by Sunday.
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Tragedy struck on Friday afternoon as a small plane crashed on a Florida highway, resulting in the loss of two lives, as reported by Fox News, confirmed by the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
A Let-L-1010 plane belonging to an aeroclub crashed in the city of Menzlinsk in the Russian Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, emergency services told TASS.
Romanian businessman Dan Petrescu (68), his wife, his son and five of their friends died in a plane crash in Milan on Sunday afternoon, after the single-engine aircraft he was piloting crashed shortly after taking off.
The 46 people which were injured in the plane crash near Almaty remain in hospital, said Kazakhstan's Health Minister E.
Two babies were rescued from the plane that crashed after taking off in Kazakhstan.
The European Parliament has voted to impose a €10,000 limit on cash payments within the European Union
French President Emmanuel Macron issued a stark warning to Europe, urging the continent to confront the challenges of a rapidly changing world
In a recent statement, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov issued a stern warning to Poland, asserting that any permanent deployment of NATO nuclear weapons on Polish soil would render the country a military target for Russia.
Reports confirm that Ukraine has deployed long-range ballistic missiles provided by the United States in secret, targeting Russian forces in occupied territories
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has pledged to take all necessary measures to compensate for the six-month delay in receiving a new 61 billion dollars US aid package
Russia has declared its intention to repatriate 48 deported Ukrainian children to their families, according to Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights
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