As reported by Cbc.ca, emergency crews have rescued a climber who fell in a hard to reach location in the Spray Lakes/ Grassi Lakes day area near Canmore. The man in his 30s was picked up by helicopter after falling about 15 metres from a rock face Sunday morning. He was airlifted to Foothills hospital by STARS air ambulance. Read Article
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The BBC reports that runways at London’s Heathrow airport have closed after an incident involving an Ethiopian Airlines jet. Arrivals and departures have been suspended, a spokesman for the airport said. Read article
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CBC reports that the B.C. Coroners Service has identified the four victims of a mid-air crash between a glider and a Cessna that happened over Nairn Falls Provincial Park, north of Whistler, at the end of June. Friends and family had already identified Rudy Lee Rozsypalek, 50, of Pemberton, as the pilot of the glider […]
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NBC News reports that ten people were killed Sunday when a seaplane crashed at the Soldotna Airport in Alaska, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Clint Johnson, chief of the NTSB in Anchorage, told NBC’s Alaska affiliate that all nine passengers and one pilot aboard the plane were killed after the it crashed, though […]
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As reported by Cnn.com, two people died after a Boeing 777 from South Korea crashed Saturday upon landing at San Francisco’s airport, sending up a huge fireball, shedding its tail and spinning before screeching to a stop. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday, according to FlightAware, a website that offers […]
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Accoring to CNN, an Asiana Airlines’ Boeing 777 crashed Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport, sending up a huge fireball and spinning before finally coming to a stop — having lost its tail and, eventually, much of its roof. Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and […]
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Geo.tv reports that Australian police said Friday they had restrained a man as he tried to break into the cockpit of a commercial Qantas flight en route to the Philippines. The 33-year-old was detained by Australian Federal Police (AFP) air security officers on the Sydney to Manila journey Thursday after he allegedly attempted to access […]
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The USA Today reports that the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is investigating a close call between a Texas-bound Spirit Airlines flight and a skydiving plane that forced the jetliner to dive sharply over Michigan, as screaming passengers feared the plane was going to crash. Flight attendants bumped their heads and luggage spilled out […]
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on June 1 2013 Schwaebische.de reported that, a 62-year-old pilot of a motorized glider crashed last Monday on the airfield Klippeneck. The cause of the incident is still unclear, according to police Tuttlingen. Two experts from the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) in Stuttgart started immediately to investigate the reasons for the tragic […]
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As reported by Business-standard.com, a Myanmar national was arrested today at the Lucknow Airport while trying to go to Sharjah allegedly on a fake passport. Sheikh Abdul Khalid was arrested at the airport with the fake passport, police said. Khalid had got made a fake passport by pasting his picture on a stolen passport, they […]
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