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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Bus plunges into Indian Kashmir valley, 16 Hindu pilgrims killed
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed and 27 injured on Sunday after a bus they were traveling in skidded off a mountain road and fell into a gorge in Indian Kashmir, a senior police official said.
The bus was heading towards Srinagar, the state capital, when it veered off the mountainous road in the Kashmir Valley, Mohan Lal, senior superintendent of police, told Reuters.
Police and air force have launched a recuse operation and have so far airlifted 19 injured pilgrims, with some of them in critical condition, Lal said.
In a Tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences on the loss of lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus visit the Amarnath cave deep in the Himalayas in the months of July and August every year.
Last week seven Hindu pilgrims, most of them women, were killed in a gun battle that erupted in Indian Kashmir following two militant attacks on police, stoking outrage and protests nationwide.
Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full, but govern separate parts, and have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir.
Source: Bus plunges into Indian Kashmir valley, 16 Hindu pilgrims killed
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Plane Almost Landed on SF Taxiway Could Have Been ‘Greatest Aviation Disaster in History’
A near-miss from an Air Canada flight heading to a taxiway at the San Francisco International Airport instead of the correct runway Friday night could have led to disaster.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating an incident where Air Canada flight 759 was diverted from landing on a taxiway — filled with four other planes fully loaded with passengers. The flight was cleared to land on the appropriate runway but had lined up with the taxiway parallel to it where the other planes sat.
An air traffic controller ordered the pilot to “go around,” and the plane ultimately landed at the airport with no incident.
“If it is true, what happened probably came close to the greatest aviation disaster in history,” retired United Airlines Capt. Ross Aimer, CEO of Air Consulting Experts, told the San Jose Mercury News.
“If you could imagine an Airbus colliding with four passenger aircraft wide bodies, full of fuel and passengers, then you can imagine how horrific this could have been,” he said.
Audio from the airport’s traffic control tower posted by the Mercury News shows how the incident unfolded, including a United Airlines pilot noting that “Air Canada flew directly over us.”
On the tape, one voice can be heard asking, “Where is this guy going? He’s on the taxiway.”
A statement from the FAA said that: “On Friday just before midnight, an Air Canada A320 was cleared to land on Runway 28R at San Francisco International Airport. However, the pilot inadvertently lined up for Taxiway C, which runs parallel to the runway. An air traffic controller sent the Air Canada jet around. The plane made another approach and landed without incident.”
Source: Air Canada Near-Miss at San Francisco Airport Narrowly Avoided Disaster | Fortune.com
Saturday, April 1, 2017
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