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16 Aug 2009 11:27

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World: John Yettaw’s free! Here’s the inevitable getting-off-plane pic

Yettaw (center), looks like he’s having a hard enough time walking right now, let alone swimming across a freaking moat. source

03 Aug 2009 09:11

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U.S., World: A flight from Rio de Janeiro to Houston shakes up passengers

  • 26 injured when the plane shook, causing major turbulence source

01 Aug 2009 19:51

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U.S.: Check it out: The best damn Air Force One flyover pics EVER!

  • THESE PHOTOS ARE AMAZING! There’s Obama’s plane! And the Statue of Liberty! And off-camera, thousands of pissed off New Yorkers scared out of their wits by a plane flying in the middle of the city! source

06 Jul 2009 11:08

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World: Manuel Zelaya didn’t get in Honduras yesterday, so he’ll try today

  • As you’ll see in this video, Jose Manuel Zelaya attempted to get in the country but instead found himself circling the bowl. Which isn’t really helping out the country’s volatility, by the way. source

05 Jul 2009 21:45

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World: Manuel Zelaya can’t get his plane into the country anyway

  • The runway’s blocked. There’s no way I can land.
  • Honduran president Jose Manuel Zelaya • From a loudspeaker in Tegucigalpa, explaining that he won’t be landing in the country today. We have a feeling he might be playing a cat and mouse game with the transition government.. “If he pushes it, there will be 10,000 people on the runway to prevent him,” said Enrique Ortez, the current foreign minister. • source

20 Jun 2009 23:53

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World: Families of killed Air France passengers will get money for their loss

  • $24,500 per passenger killed on the flight source

06 Jun 2009 13:20

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World: Bodies have been found from the Brazilian plane crash. Sigh.

  • Also found: A seat and suitcase from the Air France jet. Sigh. We knew this was coming, but man, seeing the phrase “bodies” running across a CNN Breaking News Alert is pretty tough to stomach. But at least we’ve confirmed finding something from the crash. source
 

06 Jun 2009 09:50

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World: It sounds like a lot of things went wrong with the Air France flight

  • 24 error messages, including a loss of autopilot, were reported source

05 Jun 2009 19:42

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Culture: Of all the scenes involving sharks and planes, this is the stupidest

  • On the first page of this YouTube video’s comments, someone asked if this is what happened to the Air France flight. Hey, they said it, not us. Whatever the case may be, this clip from “Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus,” starring Deborah Gibson, definitely ranks quite high on our “dumbest film scenes” list. source

04 Jun 2009 21:39

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World: Speaking too soon: The debris wasn’t from the Air France flight

  • Time to start back at square one. Brazilian officials, obviously under a lot of pressure to have something to show from the Air France incident, have nothing to show after it was confirmed that the debris was actually trash, and the oil slick they found was actually from a ship – not a jet. Granted, the plane’s still missing, and something really bad happened, but could you guys at least checked a little more closely before making an announcement? source