Sixty-five years is an eternity for most ten-year-olds. Chances are, anything that happened that long ago would be ancient history in their young minds. But thanks to the marvels of 21st century technology, the significance of an event that took place long before they were...
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Robbers with machine guns and explosives used a stolen helicopter to break into a dash depot in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday morning. The robbers stole a BELL 206B helicopter, landed it on the roof of G4S Cash,...
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The son of the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster six years ago was killed in a training flight. Lt. Asaf Ramon, 21, was a pilot with Israeli Air Forces. He was killed on...
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" The pilots of a holiday jet which suffered a potentially catastrophic electrical fault refused to divert to a nearer landing spot because they feared they would be shot down by military craft. The easyJet Airbus...
" A Continental Airlines Inc. pilot died on a flight to Newark, New Jersey, from Brussels this morning, forcing two backup pilots to take control of the plane, authorities said. The plane, carrying 247...
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About 35 of the pilot whales that had beached near Cape Town, had to be shot after they became too weak and too distressed to be rescued."Authorities shot dozens of exhausted whales that beached on a shore near...
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64th Anniversary of WWII Test Food Drop Flight, April 29, 2009 Early morning, April 29, 1945 Delayed by horrendous weather for two days, a Lancaster bomber finally rumbled down the runway to begin a dangerous...
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A retired jet pilot, Joe Cabuk died just after a smooth take-off in a twin engine plane at Forty Myers, Florida. Doug White, only a novice pilot himself took the pilot's seat, however White had never flown a...
In a Hollywood like prison escape two of Greece's most notorious criminals flew out of the Korydallos prison in Athens, for the second time in three years. Paleokostas and Rizai were days away...
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today honoured Hudson hero pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger as called him a hero. Sullenberger was honoured in his home state, and Schwarzenegger took a break from trying to fix the...
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The Mara Air International Rescue Foundation plans to start an air ambulance service from inaccessible and mountainous areas of Pakistan’s Mansehra district to big cities after equipping the Gyro helicopter with a stretcher.Pakistan's sole Gyro pilot Rehan Janjua carried...
The crowd chanted "Sully! Sully!" today as Chesley 'Sully' Sullengerger, US Airways 1549 pilot, was welcomed home by several thousand people in Danville, California, as a hero. Sully Sullengerger said only a few...
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The examination of Flight 1549 black box recorders has confirmed initial allegations made by the flight's crew that bird strike was the cause of the plane's double engine failure. Black boxes revealed that the...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2259 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
US Airways Flight 1549 has come down in the frigid Hudson River in New York. All 155 people on board are believed to have escaped the downed plane in what the New York governor described as a "miracle on the...
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So I wake up this morning and see there is snow from Palmdale to Malibu. Plus a helicopter accident and traffic backed up for hours. Is this global warming, or global cooling?"December 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) Car accident lawyers in Los Angeles, California have...
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