Pin Itemailprint Here are your top stories for this Thursday, December 22, 2011: – President Obama calls House, Senate leaders – Crews gather wreckage of NJ plane crash – FAA issues rules aimed at tired airline pilots – Holiday shopping season is in full swing
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A small plane crashed on I-287 in New Jersey this morning, spiraling out of control before hitting the median strip and exploding. The plane crashed near Exit 33 in Morris Township, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Local police say five people have been killed. Witness Shona Sternberg says the plane came in from the [...]
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A luxury helicopter tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam ended tragically on Wednesday as the chopper crashed into the side of a mountain. Delwin Chapman and his wife Tamara Chapman were in Vegas to renew their wedding vows after 25 years of marriage. The two were killed in the crash, along with [...]
Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt resigned today, just three days after he was arrested for DUI near his home in suburban D.C. In a brief statement, Babbitt said he had submitted his resignation to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Babbitt, 65, said serving as FAA administrator had been “the highlight of my professional career,” adding, [...]
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It’s either the biggest UFO mystery to date or one of the greatest hoaxes in history. Federal Aviation Administration officials are baffled by a strange piece of metal that smashed through the roof of a furniture warehouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts yesterday. The debris does not belong to any known type of aircraft. The 5-pound chunk [...]
A small twin-engine plane crashed into the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona last night and at this hour, there’s no sign of any survivors. Six people are feared dead, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told CBS 5-TV in Phoenix. READ MORE: The plane crash was caught on film “We can’t locate anybody at this point,” [...]
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I’m willing to bet this is one Mile High Club you haven’t joined yet. It seems porn star and weekend skydiving instructor Alex Torres (a.k.a “Voodoo”) thought it would be fun to film himself and Skydive Taft receptionist Hope Howell having sex while free-falling from thousands of feet in the air. They filmed the stunt in [...]
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What in the world WAS that thing in the sky? That’s what many people in the southwestern portion of the U.S. are asking after witnessing something very unusual on Wednesday night. Was it a UFO, a meteor, a satellite, or something else? A fireball shot across the night sky leading to a flood of 911 [...]
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Remember the Terrafugia Transition? It’s that flying car we told you about last summer that had just gotten approval from the FAA. Well now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has approved the Transition for use on roads and highways, bringing the flying car one step closer to everyday use. On June 30, the [...]
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Was there a close call in the skies involving President Barack Obama? Air Force One executed a “missed approach” on its first attempt to land at Bradley Field in Connecticut today. The president’s private plane had to circle the airport before making a second, more successful attempt at landing. The FAA said visibility was “below [...]
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The wing of an Air France Airbus A-380, the world’s largest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of a smaller commuter plane while taxiing on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday night, and the whole thing was captured on video. There were no injuries when the super jumbo jet touched the [...]
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A giant hole in the fuselage of Southwest Airlines Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento forced the craft to make an emergency landing at a military base in Yuma, Arizona yesterday. Sacramento International officials said that the Boeing 737 landed safely at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport at 4:07 p.m. local time (7:07 p.m. [...]
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