Truemors
Pilot Dies - Passenger Succeeds with Emergency Landing
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... 
Jonathan Ross Banned from BBC for 3 Months
There has been much speculation in the UK over how the BBC would handle the row over prank phone calls made by two of its hosts. One of those hosts is Jonathan Ross, one of the highest-paid presenteres on the BBC. Media commentators have noted that it would be prohibitively...
Planes circle isle after controller overslept
" Two airplanes due to land on the Greek island of Lesbos had to circle above the Aegean sea for more than half an hour because an air traffic controller overslept, police said Monday. An Olympic Airlines...
A Sri Lanka Rice Cargo Ship Sinks Near Chittagong Harbor – 16 Crew Men Resc...
"A Sri Lankan cargo vessel carrying 3609 tons of rice was sunk off Banglades’s Chiitagong harbor after colliding with a Panamanian empty tanker , the harbor authorities said. Radio Controller of Chittagong Port Authoritiy,Wahidur Rahman said, “After receiving an SOS from...
Advert for new air traffic controller says 20/20 vision is essential... then ...
"An advertisement for an air traffic controller is being offered in Braille – although 20/20 vision is a requirement for the job. Bosses of St Mary's airport on the Isles of Scilly say they are simply adhering...
Controller Error Leads to Newark Near-Miss (AP)
Technology and procedure still needs people to make it all work, and where there's a user, there's a chance for user error. That appears to be what happened on Wednesday, as mixed frequencies came close to causing...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Nintendo Wii and DS win Tech Emmys
It's weird how many of my pushing-30 friends have Wiis all of a sudden--even the least likely of gamers. I'd get one myself but I have Zelda addiction issues."The tech Emmys were announced this morning, and among...
Romantics sue Guitar Hero publisher
A lot of kids are going to be upset about this if it means Santa's stock of Guitar Hero runs dry."Imitation might be flattery, but that doesn't make the Romantics any happier about it. The Detroit rock band has...
created by Rob Peters | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Russian passion Killer Freed after 2 years
This is a tragic story that started in 2002
On July 1, 2002, Skyguide was operating with a single air
traffic controller who told the pilot of the Russian Tupolev plane to
descend to avoid a collision, even though... 
SAN in your hand... PCIe flash storage unveiled.
"San Diego (CA) – A new flash storage card from Fusion io could make huge storage area networks go the way of the dinosaur and DoDo bird. The company’s upcoming ‘ioDrive’ combines hundreds of gigabytes of flash storage onto a small computer card and company officials...
Troullis appointed CFO of Quintiles Transnational
Research Triangle Park, N.C., (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the appointment of Michael Troullis as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Troullis had been acting CFO since former CFO John Ratliff was appointed...
Diesel Engine troubleshooting
"GLOW PLUG PROBLEMS
One of the main reasons an automotive style engine can be hard to start is faulty glow plugs. Not all the glow plugs have to be bad before the engine gets hard to start. Glow plugs can be checked several ways. One of the easiest ways is with a continuity... Ph.D. thesis presentation given in panties
Jhennifer Chowdhury is a doctoral candidate at NYU and has created an immersive video game where players interact with a computer by means of sensors placed in their intimate clothing. The technology has been called techno-dildonics.Wired Magazine made a big deal of it ....
created by Snelgrove Bottomly | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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