Monthly Archive: June 2009

Missing plane sent 24 error messages

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Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages — including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged — before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said Saturday. But even as they analyzed the error messages …

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Massive landslide buries dozens in China

Chinese rescue workers searched for dozens of people believed to be trapped by a massive landslide in the southwest city of Chongqing on Saturday, a state-run news agency reported. Rescuers said about 80 people were buried in debris from the …

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29 children die in Mexico day care center fire

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Mexico — Twenty-nine children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their day care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the state’s governor said. The victims were from 1 to …

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Air France plane lost: officials say ‘no hope’ of finding airliner

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More than 200 people are believed dead after an Air France passenger jet disappeared over the Atlantic on a flight from Brazil. Officials said they had “no hope” for Air France Flight 447 which dropped off the radar three hours …

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