TagsTagsHere's a thread to post breaking news on the crash of a vintage WWII aircraft at the Reno Air Races... The latest news is that the plane crashed into a "VIP box seating" area near the main grandstands.
Breaking News, disaster, Airplane Accident, Air Race, Reno, Nevada
My heart goes out to the people of Poland today. This is horrible news. The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning. The governor of the west ...
An interesting take on what might have happened to Air France Flight 447: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447. Following an investigation of the A330’s uncommanded dive, Australian aviation officials, assisted by U.S. and French authorities, blamed a pair of simultaneous failures for the near disaster. ...
Photos and video of the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River, US Airways Flight 1549, being towed through the streets of New Jersey: Flight 1549 rolls to Teterboro Airport » 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America. U.S. Airways Flight 1549 was made famous when it was fabulously ...
Airplane Accident, New York City, Plane Crash, Coast Guard, US Airways, 1549, New Jersey
Surveillance video released by the New York City Harbor shows US Airways 1549 crash landing in the Hudson River: [Video]
Airplane Accident, New York City, Plane Crash, Coast Guard, US Airways
Posted last night in our spinoff links by “freedomplow,” here’s a Coast Guard video that shows the US Airways Hudson River crash and the immediate rescue efforts; the plane appears at the left side of the image at about 2:00. The passengers really got out fast; by the time the ...
Airplane Accident, New York City, Plane Crash, Coast Guard, US Airways
LGF reader “Leonidas Hoplite” forwarded a picture taken this afternoon with a cell phone camera by a passenger on the NYC-NJ ferry:
The media are reporting that everyone made it out alive... the plane was only in the air for about three minutes...
Now on Fox News: No indications of terrorism... UPDATE at 10/11/06 1:59:04 pm: The plane was piloted by Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who apparently died in the crash.