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Battle rages as Iraq’s Mosul civilians run for their lives

Battle rages as Iraq’s Mosul civilians run for their lives

Iraqi Mosul’s war to drive the ISIS from its last strongholds in western Mosul left devastating humanitarian tragedy with every advance by Iraqi forces, every missile rained down by coalition aircraft, a flood of Iraqi civilians hits the streets. A question of waiting between salvos there are few, if any, breaks that make it obvious […]

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Several dead, injured after plane splits into two crashes into California homes

Several dead, injured after plane splits into two crashes into California homes

Small plane crashed into California homes killing three people and two were injured when a plane carrying them home from a cheerleading competition crashed into two Southern California homes and sparked a major fire, authorities said. The passengers boarded on the plane were a husband, wife and three teenagers on the plane that had just […]

February 28, 2017 | By | Reply More
Myanmar military plane crash kills 4

Myanmar military plane crash kills 4

Feb 10, – An Information Ministry statement identified the aircraft, which crashed in a rice field about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the airport, as a Beech 1900, a 19-passenger twin-engine turboprop no longer in production. Photos of the crashed plane showed that most of its fuselage had burned up. Four Myanmar military personnel were […]

February 10, 2016 | By | Reply More
Saudi-led strikes kill at least 12 Yemeni rebels

Saudi-led strikes kill at least 12 Yemeni rebels

Apr 27, – The aircraft pounded five schools converted by the Shiite rebels into military bases in Ataq, the capital of Abyan province, military sources said. Saudi-led coalition warplanes hit anti-government forces in south Yemen Monday, killing at least 12 Huthi insurgents and allied forces as fighting continued across several provinces, military and local sources […]

April 27, 2015 | By | Reply More
China says it monitored defiant US bomber flights

China says it monitored defiant US bomber flights

Nov 27, – A Chinese Defense Ministry statement Wednesday said the planes were detected and monitored as they flew through the zone for two hours and 22 minutes. It said all aircraft flying through the zone would be monitored, but made no mention of a threat to take “defensive emergency measures” against noncompliant aircraft that […]

November 27, 2013 | By | Reply More
Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Oct 19, – A plane carrying parachutists for a skydiving trip crashed in southern Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard, officials said. Minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield near the city of Namur, witnesses saw part of a wing break off, sending the plane into a spiraling nosedive and […]

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Chronic Exposure to Airplane Noise Might Harm the Heart: Study

Chronic Exposure to Airplane Noise Might Harm the Heart: Study

Oct 09. – In one study, British researchers compared rates of stroke and heart disease among 3.6 million people who lived near London’s sprawling Heathrow airport, one of the busiest transit hubs in the world. People who put up with the constant roar of aircraft overhead may be at higher risk for heart disease, two […]

October 9, 2013 | By | Reply More
Solar-powered aircraft begins trip across US

Solar-powered aircraft begins trip across US

May 4, AP – The solar-powered aircraft took off from a joint civil-military airport outside of San Francisco on the US West Coast on Friday, in the first leg of a cross-country trip that is expected to end at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City this coming July. Two Swiss pilots have […]

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