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Zaphod58
Interesting thing I just noticed. There was a video that showed a water bomber dropping on the fire, and the tail was upright, but in just about every other video I saw the tail was lying on its back facing the sky.
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"Although there are precedents for both pilots losing consciousness at the controls of aircraft in the past, for it to happen on a large airliner like a Boeing 737, with all the backup systems they have there, does seem to be really quite extraordinary," said Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence.
A lack of oxygen apparently caused the crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart in the U.S. state of South Dakota in 1999.
Stewart's twin-engine jet went down in a pasture after flying halfway across the country on autopilot, as Stewart and the four others aboard apparently lay unconscious for lack of oxygen after the plane lost cabin pressure. Everyone was killed.
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GRAMMATIKO, Greece - A Cypriot airliner crashed into a mountainous area north of Athens on Sunday killing all 121 people on board after apparently suffering a loss of cabin pressure or oxygen.
"The pilot has turned blue," a passenger said in a mobile text message to his cousin, according to Greek television. "Cousin farewell, we're freezing."
Greek TV station Alpha said the pilot told air traffic controllers the Helios Airways Boeing 737 was experiencing air conditioning problems before communication with the plane -- flying at 35,000 feet en route from Larnaca in Cyprus to Prague via Athens -- was lost.
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olf champion Payne Stewart and at least four others died Monday when their Learjet, its windows coated with a shroud of frost and its crew and passengers apparently incapacitated, streaked across the nation's heartland before nosediving into a South Dakota field.
Experts and government officials said the twin-engine jet, which took off from Orlando, Fla., probably lost cabin pressure, disabling and eventually killing those on board.
After air traffic controllers lost contact with the jet over Gainesville, Fla., fighter jets from bases in Florida, Oklahoma and North Dakota tracked the eerie, uncontrolled flight. The private jet apparently ran out of fuel over north-central South Dakota and crashed in a grassy field two miles west of Mina.
"The plane had pretty much nosed straight into the ground," Lesley Braun, who lives about two miles from the site, told The Associated Press. "There's not a lot of debris spread out a long ways."
Also killed were Stewart's agents Robert Fraley and Van Ardan and the two pilots, identified as Michael Kling, 43, and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, 27.
Fraley was chief executive officer of Leader Enterprises Inc., and Ardan was president of the sports management company. The jet was operated by Sunjet Aviation Inc. in Orlando, Fla.
Jack Nicklaus told The AP on Monday that he feared one of his golf course designers, Bruce Borland, 40, also died in the crash. Borland's wife, Kate, also said she contacted the private jet terminal Monday afternoon and spoke to an employee who confirmed her husband intended to board the flight.
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Moscow, August 25
Two Russian passenger planes crashed almost simultaneously late yesterday killing all 90 on board, and security officials said they were investigating a possible terrorist attack. The planes disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar screens within minutes of each other and one, carrying 46 passengers and crew, sent a hijack alarm before crashing near the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB security service to investigate the crashes, which came before Sunday’s presidential election in Chechnya where rebel separatists have threatened to disrupt the poll with violence.
‘’The fact that both planes took off from one airport and disappeared from radars around the same time can show it was a planned action,’’ the Interfax news agency quoted an aviation source as saying. ‘’In such a situation one could not exclude a terrorist act.’’ Witnesses on the ground heard an explosion on board the second plane, a Tu-134 carrying 44 passengers and crew, just before it crashed near Tula, 150 km south of Moscow. There were no foreigners on board the planes, which both took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. News agencies quoted security officials as saying they could not rule out a terrorist act, while Rostov prosecutors opened a criminal probe into the crash of the Sibir Airlines Tu-154 en route to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. ‘’A minute before the plane disappeared from the radar screens the interior ministry received a report from an air traffic controller that there had been an attack on the crew,’’ Interfax quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying.
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According to reports from Reuters & Associated Press an An-24 aircraft of Kermerovo Aviapredpreprietie crashed Wednesday March 16 near Russia's Arctic coastline.
A spokesman for Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, Viktor Beltsov, said there were 45 passengers and seven crew members aboard the regional Antonov 24 plane that crashed near Varandei in the Nenets autonomous region along Russia's Arctic coast. Different sources variously report 28 or 29 fatalities and 23 or 24 survivors from the accident. One report suggest that the aircraft's tail-section broke-off. Two the eight crew members are among those reported killed.
Ten of the survivors were in reported to be in "grave condition". A spokesman for the local branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry, said survivors contacted authorities on a satellite phone and rescuers quickly reached the site. LUKOIL, Russia's largest oil company, said at least some of the passengers were its employees, but it had no information on casualties.
The aircraft departed from the city of Ufa in southern Siberia and made several stopovers on its way to Varandei and was approaching the airport when it suddenly banked and slammed into the ground near Varandei, about 1,110 miles northeast of Moscow.
Russia's Lukoil oil company is currently upgrading the Varandei port on the Arctic Sea. Lukoil and U.S. oil company Conoco-Phillips have established a joint venture, Rusco, to develop the oil-rich fields in the Timan-Pechora region with the intention of ultimately shipping crude to the United States from Varandei.
In an unrelated incident the previous day an An-26B cargo aircraft was damaged on take-off from Lima's main airport. All the crew members were reported to be uninjured.
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Justice Dept. Drops Investigation Into Whether CIA Agents Lied About Fatal Shootdown Of Plane In Peruvian Anti-Drug Operation
The Justice Department announced that it was dropping its criminal investigation into whether some CIA agents lied to a Senate committee about a shootdown program in Peru. According to the New York Times on Feb. 6, 2005 ( "US Drops Criminal Inquiry Of CIA Antidrug Effort In Peru"), "After a secret three-year investigation, federal prosecutors have decided to end a criminal inquiry into whether at least four Central Intelligence Agency officers lied to lawmakers and their agency superiors about a clandestine antidrug operation that ended in 2001 with the fatal downing of a plane carrying American missionaries, Justice Department officials said this week. 'The Justice Department has declined a criminal prosecution," said Bryan Sierra, a Justice Department spokesman, in response to a question about the previously undisclosed investigation. The conduct under scrutiny was part of a C.I.A. operation authorized by President Bill Clinton beginning in 1994 to help the Peruvian Air Force to interfere with drug flights over the country."
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The plane crash that took the life of Australian researcher Ian Payne 39, and his New Zealand pilot Dougal Williamson, 80 kilometres south west of Windhoek in Nambibia yesterday, remains a mystery. The Geophysicist was working for a subsidiary of GPX, a Perth Australian company who offers remote sensing and airborne geophysics to mining and oil industrial companies.
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Florida Rep. Katherine Harris Dead in Plane Crash
>>>According to an unidentified source, Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) died in a small plane crash on Monday morning off the Ontario coast near Toronto, Canada. And with her death, many of the secrets involving the 2000 presidential election voting controversies -- where Governor Jeb Bush ordered 57,700 �ex-felons� removed from the Florida voting rolls -- will be lost forever.
Originally posted by mrsdudara
I am going to sit my lazy butt here at this computer, voice my opinions, discuss religions on other threads and learn what ever I can, because my Grandpa and my great Grandpa fought like hell so that I could.
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Sudan's former southern rebel leader and First Vice President John Garang, who this year made peace with the northern government, has been killed in an accident Monday while flying from Uganda to Sudan.
Mr. Garang was flying home Saturday from talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The helicopter encountered bad weather, and radio contact was eventually lost.
The missing helicopter belonged to the Ugandan military, Voice of America reports.
Mr. Garang had led the SPLM during a 21 year civil war. He was sworn in as Sudan's vice president last month as part of a peace deal he helped negotiate to end the conflict.
Rudi Muller, head of the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in southern Sudan, told Reuters by telephone from southern Sudan he had been told of Garang's death by the governor of the Lake State in southern Sudan.
"It was the governor of the Lake State who told us in a meeting at 3.30 a.m. that Doctor Garang has been killed in an accident," he said.
"It has now been confirmed that the plane crashed after it hit a mountain range in southern Sudan because of poor visibility and this resulted in the death of Dr. John Garang DeMabior, six of his colleagues and seven other crew members of the Ugandan presidential plane," Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir was quoted as saying by AP.
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A helicopter crash has claimed the life of newly appointed Vice President of Sudan John Garang, an ex rebel leader who was instrumental in the implication of a peace deal which ended 21 years of civil war in Sudan.
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IZZAT Ibrahim al-Duri, one of Saddam Hussein's top deputies and a man who eluded US capture despite a hefty bounty on his head, reportedly died quietly overnight at the age of 63.
The notice of his death came not from the US military, but from a statement signed by the dissolved Baath Party command.
"The leader of the resistance died on Friday November 11 at 2:20 am," according to the statement signed by the Baath command.
There was no immediate confirmation of his death.
Duri was one of Saddam's most feared right-hand men and was said to be suffering from leukemia.
A trusted aide of Saddam since the very beginnings of his rise to power, Ibrahim was a natural choice for the sensitive mission of leading an underground resistance network.
He was seen as the man who could potentially serve as a link between the Saddam regime and radical Al-Qaeda Islamic fighters.
As recently as October 5 of this year, he called for escalating the insurgency in a letter attributed to him and published by the London-based Arab newspaper Al-Qods Al-Arabi.
Canadian born Dr. Gerry Bull and his Canadian-based Space Research Corporation (SRC) were directly responsible in the late 1970s for the development of advanced guns as well as full-bore and base-bleed ammunition technologies within South Africa. Later, from the early 1980s until recently, he brought more advanced expertise to Iraq. A key product of Bull's endeavours, the G-5 155mm self-propelled howitzer has surfaced in original form or in variants within Chile, Austria, Germany, Belgium and perhaps most significantly, Iraq.
Bull was planning a gun of vast proportions and staggering potential The barrel was designed to be 156 metres long. With the breech and recoil mechanism fitted, the entire gun would be close to 200 metres in length -- the bore of the barrel 1 metre wide. The breech was to be large enough so that two men could walk around inside the space created. The projectiles would be rocket-assisted and be powerful enough to put a 50 kilogram satellite into orbit
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A RUSSIAN plane with eight people on board crashed overnight.
All passengers and crew were feared dead, Russian media reported overnight.
RIA Novosti news agency reported that among the passengers was Igor Olshansky, an assistant to a deputy in the State Duma lower house of parliament. The identity of the other passengers was not known.
Originally posted by Mayet
Katherine Harris
politics.abovetopsecret.com...
Florida Rep. Katherine Harris Dead in Plane Crash
>>>According to an unidentified source, Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) died in a small plane crash on Monday morning off the Ontario coast near Toronto, Canada. And with her death, many of the secrets involving the 2000 presidential election voting controversies -- where Governor Jeb Bush ordered 57,700 �ex-felons� removed from the Florida voting rolls -- will be lost forever.
Manning Marable, a leading scholar of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations, whose long-awaited biography of Malcolm X, more than a decade in the writing, is scheduled to be published on Monday, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 60.
Originally posted by Maxmars
I am taking a chance on this one.... Many of you may have never even heard of Diaspora.... but consider this....
Zhitomirskiy was one of four New York University programming students who last year launched Diaspora, which is designed as an open-source alternative to Facebook. Their intention was to build "an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data."
A commercial alpha version was released November 23, 2010. The group has raised more than $200,000 in donations using a fundraising platform start-up called Kickstarter.
Open source (free - nonprofit - no ad driven) competition for the most powerful social media force on the net: Facebook?
Facebook, made pop heroes of their founders, billionaires, and allegedly serves the military industrial complex and law enforcement by providing huge databases of personal information and association links?
Diaspora is just getting off the ground... just getting funding... just getting media attention and - this.
Form TechCrunch
techcrunch.com...
Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of Diaspora‘s four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we’ve now confirmed this terrible news with the Diaspora team.
The news is incredibly jarring, to the point that much else I could say escapes me. Ilya was just 22. To see any member of our community pass is sad, but for one so young to go is absolutely crushing. The cause of death is currently unconfirmed.
Our sincerest condolences to Ilya’s family, friends, and the entire Diaspora team.
Update: While I originally wrote that Ilya was 21, one of his friends reached out to let us know that he had just recently turned 22.
Perhaps nothing... perhaps more....
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