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Plane Crash At Mount Everest: 19 People Die

September 25, 2011 admin No comments

A plane with tourists to see Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal, killing all 19 people on board.

Turboprops are Buddha Air has carried 13 foreign tourists, Nepalese three passengers and three crew members when it crashed into the Bisankunarayan in the village, a few miles south of the capital, Katmandu.

Rewant Kuwar, an official at the rescue headquarters at the international airport of Kathmandu, said 18 bodies were pulled from the wreckage, and another victim died later in hospital.

Among the foreigners who died in the accident, 10 were Indian nationals, two were U.S. citizens and one Japanese, Ganeshraj Tourism Minister Joshi said.

An eyewitness, Haribol Poudel, told Avenues television that the plane had hit the roof of a house in the village, and dissolved into several pieces. No casualties were reported on the ground.

Poudel said it was cloudy and visibility was very low in the mountainous region.

The plane had taken passengers an hour, “mountain air” for the Everest region in the capital was returning when it crashed.

NASA satellite breaks up in plunge to Earth

September 24, 2011 admin No comments

A six-tones NASA science satellite fell back to Earth, the U.S. space agency said on Saturday, but it was not yet known where the remains landed.

NASA said its decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite was “passing over Canada and Africa as well as vast portions of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans” as it returned to Earth, and that “the precise re-entry time and location are not yet known with certainty.”

The 20-year-old satellite, which took an unpredictable course as it tumbled through the upper atmosphere, fell to Earth sometime between 11:23 p.m. EDT on Friday and 1:09 a.m. EDT on Saturday, NASA said.

There were reports on Twitter of debris falling over Okotoks, a town south of Calgary in western Canada, most likely satellite remains.

Stretching 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plummet uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA’s 75-tonnes Skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979.

Russia’s last space station, the 135-tonnes Mir, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2001, but it was a guided descent.

NASA now plans for the controlled re-entry of large spacecraft, but it did not when UARS was designed.

The 13,000-pound (5,897 kg) satellite was dispatched into orbit by a space shuttle crew in 1991 to study ozone and other chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere. It completed its mission in 2005 and had been slowly losing altitude ever since, pulled by the planet’s gravity.

Most of the spacecraft burned up during the fiery plunge through the atmosphere, but about 26 individual pieces, weighing a total of about 1,100 pounds (500 kg) could have survived the incineration.

The debris field spans about 500 miles, but exactly where it is located depends on when UARS descended.

With most of the planet covered in water and vast uninhabited deserts and other land directly beneath the satellite’s flight path, the chance that someone would be hit by falling debris was 1-in-3,200, NASA said.

“The risk to public safety is very remote,” it said.

The satellite flew over most of the planet, traveling between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator.

UARS was one of about 20,000 pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth. Something the size of UARS falls back into the atmosphere about once a year.

NASA gives 1-hour window for falling satellite

September 24, 2011 admin No comments

A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.

The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada and Africa in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn’t entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

“It just doesn’t want to come down,” said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

McDowell said the satellite’s delayed demise demonstrates how unreliable predictions can be. That said, “the best guess is that it will still splash in the ocean, just because there’s more ocean out there.”

Until Friday, increased solar activity was causing the atmosphere to expand and the 35-foot, bus-size satellite to free fall more quickly. But late Friday morning, NASA said the sun was no longer the major factor in the rate of descent and that the satellite’s position, shape or both had changed by the time it slipped down to a 100-mile orbit.

“In the last 24 hours, something has happened to the spacecraft,” said NASA orbital debris scientist Mark Matney.

Car bomb behind Mich. blast that injured 3

September 22, 2011 admin No comments

A car bomb caused a huge explosion, Michigan Road was seriously wounded his father and his two sons who are “very lucky” to have survived the attack, which turned his car into a blackened piece of metal, an official Federal said Wednesday.

The investigators looked at what remained of the vehicle after the explosion Tuesday night, looking for clues on how the bomb was made and who would have planted, said Donald Dawkins, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“There was a lot of energy behind it. The victims are very lucky, very lucky to be alive,” said Dawkins.

Among the things investigators are trying to determine if one of the victims were targeted or if the attack was random, Dawkins said. The vehicle exploded on a street with trees during a highway in Monroe, which is about 35 miles southwest of Detroit.

Authorities have refused to publicly identify the victims, but said serious condition in St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, about 20 miles south of Monroe.

The victims were lucky to survive, says Dawkins, who has called the attack “heinous crime”.

“When you have children involved, it really hits home,” he said.

Shawn Remington, 33, said he was working outside his home when he heard what sounded like a heavy metal bucket lid being slammed shut, then saw a large column of smoke.

He said when he arrived, firefighters extinguishing the fire and rescue workers loaded victims into ambulances. He said the vehicle was “completely melted.”

“When I arrived, there was nothing left of the vehicle,” he said. “It ‘been up to bare metal.”

Monroe is a city of more than 20,000, which is one of the oldest communities in Michigan. And ‘the old town and is home to a furniture manufacturer La-Z-Boy Ltd

Libyan Forces Approach The NTC Hometown Of Sirte, Gaddafi

September 21, 2011 admin No comments

The roar of the rockets, the sound of artillery and air tight enemy fire marked the vast expanse of desert – the front line in the battle of Sirte.

Troops fly to the National Transitional Council (NTC), the flag is placed to the west, south and east of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown – the city blocked the North Sea.

They look less like a ragged rebel and more like a standing army: they have learned to fight and begin to overwhelm.

Every day, at least one train departs from the desert to the west along the coast road – tanks, artillery, rocket launchers and hundreds of heavily armed trucks fighting in the war against the fluid.

Anti-aircraft fire bursting in the air to celebrate the loads of ammunition, fuel tanks, and cannons to move and re-asphalt a room or 10-kilometer walk.

His progress was rapid until the eastern gate of Sirte, a symbolic marker tape and a pocket at the end of the Pro-Gaddafi defense.

The artillery barrage was landing in and around the door – another 50 km (30 miles) from the central mosque of Sirte, but the distance is decreasing day by day.

A new era

Our tribe is related to Gaddafi. We hope that our brothers are going to change their mentality. We have to forget everything about this war, “Abdullah —

Sunday, fell Herawi – the last major town on the coast road – and now the line of danger in a small village called Sultan.

“From there perhaps 10 km, hot fire,” said one of the soldiers on the cover as the rockets landed near their position.

The defense of Sirte is strong, fierce battles were fought in the desert, on Tuesday, while pro-Gaddafi fighters cling to every mile before firing a salvo of rockets and then withdraw.

Mocking and snipers left to stop the advance.

As each village has fallen, a company needs to adapt to a new era – four decades of dictatorship is gone in an instant.

Abdullah, 60, took me to see her family a few miles from Herawa.

They found refuge in a house built media – one of 500 luxury villas on the outskirts unfinished, sporting a rebel flag raised in a hurry.

They were the windows and marble sumptuous rooms in these houses are built close links with Gaddafi clan.

“We fled war war -. Gaddafi came from both sides – East and West,” said Abdullah.

He was very quick to criticize the former regime, and welcome to the new, but something is not right.

A girl was greeted with the old hi-Gaddafi, in another place a photo of the ousted leader, Abdullah and his Arab anger broke into the room.

The children had learned by heart in English “bad Gaddafi” – which made me wonder what they have learned to say that when Gaddafi’s supporters celebrated in the city yesterday.

So were supporters or sympathizers Gaddafi? Maybe. These people have been displaced loyalty very quickly to protect themselves.

Just to survive in Libya, the families need favors: to thrive might be called accomplices, but it is more difficult.

Then we had another, younger Abdullah across the street.

“Our tribe is related to Gaddafi. We are close to Gaddafi, I can not deny that,” he said, confirming that the reason they were given new homes.

“We hope that the brothers changed the mentality. We have to forget everything about this war.

“If I am a relative of Gaddafi, I need those people who have been affected by treatment of Gaddafi to forget everything and forgive us – and we will help them.”

Fighters meeting Gaddafi

It ‘a great thing to ask, once all year, but how do these people who have benefited under the Col Gaddafi was prepared to decide the future of Libya.

If reconciliation is not done, and if revenge fills the gap, so that freedom and democracy can be short-lived.

Despite some incidents, until the rhetoric was good, and the treatment of prisoners, for example, was respectful.

Three men were taken with sniper rifles: it seems they had been left for dead by its leaders as bait to attract anti-Gaddafi troops directly into a barrage of rockets.

They were captured and held in a small dark storage room in the mosque, the sound of Arab voices raised echoes around them.

They took me to meet them. They said they were well treated and spoke of the propaganda that they were told about the war.

“They would be happy to cut the throat”, one of the NTC said the British troops, but he was told not to take revenge, and seemed to accept his orders.

In the melee and shooting, singing and clapping, there are energetic forces NTC in advance, but there is still a lot of desert to capture and make sense of the faithful are willing to give up without a real fight

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Plane Crash At Mount Everest: 19 People Die

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Libyan Forces Approach The NTC Hometown Of Sirte, Gaddafi

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