The Israeli blitz against the Gaza Strip has left two more people killed, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 397 since Saturday.
Over 1900 others were also wounded in the onslaught. Women and children have been among the victims, the UN announced on Wednesday.
A Palestinian medic was killed and two others wounded when a missile struck next to their ambulance east of Gaza City, Palestinians said.
Two more people injured in last Saturday’s plane crash at Denver International Airport have been released from the hospital, officials said today.
Among those released was the pilot of the Continental jet that veered off the runway, slid nearly half a mile into a ravine and caught fire, airline officials told CBS 4.
Federal investigators said late Monday that an unusual rattling sound can be heard on the cockpit recorder of a Continental Airlines flight shortly before it veered off a runway after an aborted takeoff Saturday, injuring more than three dozen people.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said the jet’s pilots aborted takeoff at high speed in a bid to keep from hurtling off the side of a runway at Denver International Airport last Saturday. But the plane became uncontrollable anyway and within seconds slammed into a snowy ravine.
DENVER (AP) — Investigators took photos and measurements at the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plane veered off a runway and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow-covered ravine where it came to rest after its aborted takeoff Saturday at Denver International Airport.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators made preliminary reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder on Sunday, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said.
French search divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Airbus plane that crashed in the Mediterranean killing all seven people on board.
The black box was to be dried out in Paris before data was retrieved, said Air New Zealand’s Ed Sims.
Four of the airline’s staff, one aviation official and two German pilots were on the plane. Only two bodies have been found off the Perpignan coast.
A flight attendant was forced to land a UK-bound jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had a mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, an official report disclosed today.
Another attendant suffered wrist injuries as the crew forcibly removed the co-pilot from the cockpit controls and restrained him in a seat in the cabin, the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) said.
As the Air Canada plane made its way over the Atlantic, the captain of the Boeing 767 from Toronto to Heathrow asked staff to seek out any trained pilots onboard.
MOOSE JAW — Two members of the Canadian Forces died Thursday when a CT-114 Tutor jet crashed northwest of 15 Wing Moose Jaw.
The pilot was a member of the Snowbirds home team and his passenger was a military photographer from the base, 15 Wing commander Col. Paul Keddy said at a press conference. He did not immediately release their names because their families are still being contacted.
“It is with deep sadness that I announce to you that we have lost two great Canadians here at 15 Wing Moose Jaw — outstanding members of the Canadian Forces due to a tragic accident,” he said.
MAMMOTH LAKES, California (AP) — California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett’s downed plane may not resume until summer.
Snowfall ended the search in the Sierra Nevada on Friday. Madera County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Erica Stuart says she does not expect weather conditions to improve enough for crews to return to the site this year.
Authorities say they completed most of what they needed to do Friday when they removed debris from Fossett’s plane and found three more bone fragments.
Searchers found human remains at the crash site of a plane piloted by millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, authorities said today, seeming to bring the mystery of Fossett’s disappearance closer to conclusion.
After surveying the crash site — located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, near Mammoth Lakes — investigators determined that the small single-engine plane that Fossett was last seen flying had slammed into mountain on a cloudy day. In early September 2007, Fossett, then 63, was last seen taking off from a Nevada ranch owned by hotel magnate Baron Hilton.
BERLIN (AP) — Dortmund Airport says an Airbus A321 passenger jet has rolled off a runway early Friday, forcing the evacuation of 168 passengers aboard.
A spokesman for the airport says the Air Nouvel flight was in Dortmund on a layover between Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport and Tunisia when it rolled off the end of the runway on takeoff.
Nobody was hurt.
The spokesman says air traffic was halted for more than an hour while crews worked to free the airplane from soggy grass.
