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...plane slammed into the runway as it descended and then flipped onto its back, sending flames spewing from the fuselage as it skidded across the tarmac. Miraculously, the plane's two crew members and three passengers survived, scrambling out a side cockpit window as flames quickly enveloped the aircraft. All five people were taken to a nearby hospital, treated and then released, a company spokesman said. The jet, an MD-11 en route from Anchorage Alaska, crashed at about 1:35 a.m. this morning. By 8:00 a.m., airport officials reopened the runway for departing flights only. All incoming flights...
...expects an action picture to be altogether believable, but for anyone who has actually flown on the eponymous aircraft, Air Force One seems a bit less authentic than Attack of the Crab Monsters. To their credit, the filmmakers do not pretend that terrorists masquerading as Russian cameramen could simply stroll onto the President's plane; the script calls for a rogue Secret Service agent to give them their security clearances. Fine--except that even the mechanics on Air Force One work on a buddy system, one keeping tabs on the other. So presumably you need at least two rogue agents...
BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union approved "in principle" Boeing's $15 billion megamerger with McDonnell Douglas after the aircraft manufacturer made key concessions on exclusive supply contracts and the sharing of aviation technologies. The preliminary agreement temporarily averts a trade war between the United States and the EU which threatened to erupt if the consortium vetoed the Boeing-McDonnell arrangement. To secure EU approval, Boeing offered to terminate agreements which made Boeing the sole supplier of jets to several U.S. airline, and promised to grant competitors access to certain aviation technologies. Those concessions should assuage European fears for Boeing...
However pressured his life became, Carrillo died at the height of his power. Forging important alliances with Colombia's Cali drug cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Carrillo pioneered the use of Boeing 727s and cargo aircraft to move tons of cocaine from South America to Mexico, where supplies were then shipped and trucked across the U.S. border. More significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become...
...said the "flying saucer" found in 1947 was actually an Air Force balloon used to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests, the Air Force now insists that it has refuted all charges that the government actually recovered several extraterrestrial bodies and a UFO when a mysterious aircraft crashed at Roswell. But UFO researchers point out that the two stories have been rather awkwardly cobbled together. According to "The Roswell Report, Case Closed," life-sized latex and aluminum test dummies were used in high-altitude parachute drops between 1954 and 1959 over the New Mexico desert...