Category Archives: Accident

3 dead, more than 50 hurt in Nev. air race crash

By doris | Published: September 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com RENO, Nev. (AP) — As thousands watched in horror, a World War II-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then [...]

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Search under way for 10 oil workers in Gulf of Mexico

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company searched in rough seas Friday for 10 workers missing from a U.S.-owned oil vessel in the tropical-storm-roiled Gulf of Mexico. The workers, contracted by Texas-based Geokinetics, abandoned ship Thursday afternoon after Tropical Storm Nate caused their liftboat to take on water in the Bay of [...]

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Paralyzed toddler can now move his legs

By doris | Published: June 10, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Izaiah Wallis lies on his back, machine tubes hooked to his small body, legs stretched out and toes curled. A white sheet of paper hangs on an aquarium-themed painted wall behind his bed, bearing a request written on his behalf by his grandmother. “If you love me, please don’t kiss me,” [...]

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Boy, 9, uses CPR to save 2-year-old sister

By doris | Published: April 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Tristin Saghin might only be 9 years old, but he knew just what to do after his 2-year-old sister was found floating in her grandmother’s swimming pool unconscious Sunday. “I went running outside … and I did CPR on her,” the boy told affiliate KNXV in Mesa, Arizona.

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Operator airs plan to control Japan nuclear crisis

By doris | Published: April 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant laid out a blueprint Sunday for stopping radiation leaks and stabilizing damaged reactors within the next six to nine months as a first step toward allowing some of the tens of thousands of evacuees to return to the area.

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Boeing didn’t expect 737 cracks so soon

By doris | Published: April 5, 2011

! NewsFull Story at news.hoo PHOENIX – Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner’s fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn’t old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday, as the airline cleared most of its older 737 planes to return to the skies. Southwest said it had [...]

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Experts: U.S. won’t feel health effects from Japan

By doris | Published: March 16, 2011

Full Story at The Chart.Blogs.cnn.com The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, which has suffered numerous fires, explosions and subsequent radiation leaks since Friday’s earthquake, could get worse, and just how much worse is unknown. But health and nuclear safety experts agree that even if radiation levels around the plant reach Chernobyl-like [...]

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As U.S. damage is measured, man dies trying to photograph tsunami

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a northern California beach while trying to photograph a tsunami launched by the massive earthquake near Japan, according to a Del Norte County, California, official. The man’s identity was withheld as authorities tried to [...]

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Fourth Child Dies After Houston Day Care Blaze

By doris | Published: February 26, 2011

Full Story ataolnews.com A fourth child died today as a result of a fire in a Houston home day care center, a local television station reported, and investigators are trying to determine whether the center’s owner was out shopping when the deadly blaze ignited. Eighteen-month-old Elias Castillo died this morning, Houston television station KTRK reported. [...]

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China coal mine explosion kills 20, traps 17

By doris | Published: October 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com BEIJING — A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground Saturday in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said. The blast came shortly after the world was riveted by Chile’s dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners after they spent more than [...]

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All 33 miners may be released from Chile hospital by weekend

By doris | Published: October 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Copiapo, Chile (CNN) — More miners are expected to be discharged Friday from a regional hospital in Chile following their rescue after 69 days underground, and officials hope that all 33 will be home by Sunday. Three of the miners were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported. CNN’s sister network identified [...]

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‘I’m so happy!’ Seven Chile miners gain freedom

By doris | Published: October 13, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — To hugs, cheers and tears, rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last early Wednesday, 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine almost a half-mile underground. Seven men were pulled out [...]

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Driller from Denver becomes Chile mine rescue hero

By doris | Published: October 10, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – Jeff Hart was drilling water wells for the U.S. Army’s forward operating bases in Afghanistan when he got the call to fly to Chile. He spent the next 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped [...]

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More than 200 rescued from blazing ferry in Baltic

By doris | Published: October 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERLIN — More than 200 passengers and crew were evacuated after a ferry caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea, German authorities said Saturday. The Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria was en route from the northern city of Kiel to the Lithuanian port of [...]

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Chile list says which miners should go first, last

By doris | Published: October 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Before 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them down below to make their journey as smooth as it can be. These men — an elite group of three paramedics with the Chilean navy’s special forces [...]

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Data shows balloon descended rapidly; survival ‘unlikely’

By doris | Published: October 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Rome, Italy (CNN) — Race organizers Friday said a balloon carrying two missing Americans over the Adriatic Sea off Italy made a rapid descent during rough weather, conditions which would make their survival “unlikely.” “This is very pessimistic information,” says the statement from the race organization — Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett. [...]

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Fisher-Price recalls millions of toys

By doris | Published: October 1, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — Toy manufacturer Fisher-Price announced Thursday that it has recalled about 10 million toys because they were dangerous to children. The toy maker said it has recalled about 2.8 million of several types of baby play areas with inflatable balls because of problems with choking. It also recalled 125,000 of [...]

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Chilean hospital prepares for the arrival of 33 trapped miners

By doris | Published: September 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Copiapo, Chile (CNN) — Military choppers are on standby to swoop into the heliport. Motorcycle police are on alert to escort a fleet of ambulances. And a throng of electric beds with crisp white sheets stand vacant and ready. This is part of the contingency plan to rush 33 trapped miners [...]

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Toyota settles suit over high-profile US crash

By doris | Published: September 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SANTA ANA, California — Toyota Motor Corp. has settled what is widely regarded as the most serious lawsuit of the hundreds of claims the automaker faces. The company has agreed to settle the suit brought by relatives of four family members killed in a high-speed crash near San Diego that galvanized [...]

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Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

By doris | Published: September 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas [...]

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