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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Plane crashes into Northwest Austin building
Austin plane crash was deliberate, officials say
February 18, 2010 4:17 p.m. EST
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Pilot appears to have burned his house, then crashed his plane into intentionally
A message on a Web site registered to pilot appears to be a suicide note
Austin mayor downplays any terrorism links to crash
Witnesses described an infernal scene that shook nearby buildings
(CNN) -- An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.
Federal authorities identified the pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 as Joseph Andrew Stack, 53.
Two people were injured and one person was missing, local officials said. There were no reported deaths.
A message on a Web site registered to Stack appears to be a suicide note.
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Plane crashes into Northwest Austin building
by KVUE.com
Plane crashes into Northwest Austin building
Posted on February 18, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Updated today at 10:41 AM
A small single-engine plane crashed into a building in Northwest Austin Thursday morning, sparking a fire.
The crash happened near MoPac and Highway 183.
Smoke could be scene pouring from the a building in the Echelon complex on traffic cameras and in photosgraphs send in by KVUE viewers and reporters.
KVUE’s Noelle Newton reports most of the windows are blown out. People were evacuated. There is so far no word on how many people have been injured. A witness told KVUE that it didn't appear the plane was having any trouble before it crashed.
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Plane crashes into Northwest Austin building
Monday, October 26, 2009
'Hero' Pilot Dies After Saving Passengers
Dramatic Final Mayday Call Captures Him Saying 'So Long'
(Oct. 25) - A British pilot who apparently drowned after his plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea is being hailed a hero for saving the lives of all nine passengers aboard, British news outlets reported Sunday.
An engine failure forced Robert Mansell, 32, to ditch his plane off the Caribbean island of Bonaire last Wednesday, Sky News reported.
After he successfully landed the Britten-Norman Islander in the water, all nine passengers were able to escape the aircraft. But Mansell reportedly remained strapped in the pilot's seat as it sank into the ocean. The passengers were later picked up by a passing cargo ship.
"He's a hero," Simon Janzen, who worked with Mansell at the flight company Divi Divi Air, told the Telegraph. "All the passengers survived and he is the only one missing. If he wasn't a good pilot, he couldn't have ditched it so everyone could be saved."
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Hero Pilot Dies After Saving Passengers
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Small plane crashes near high school football field
Spectators at a high school football scrimmage watch as a plane goes down Friday in Ohio.
Small plane crashes near high school football field
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Plane crashes near football scrimmage at Ohio high school
Witness says plane was headed toward field when it did a sudden nosedive
Two people on board died in the crash, authorities say
(CNN) -- A small plane crashed Friday near an Ohio-area high school during a football scrimmage.
Spectators at a practice game at Harrison High School watched from the bleachers as the plane went down at 8:08 p.m. ET, said police officer Jennifer Coyle, who witnessed the incident.
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Montana pilot killed in firefighting tanker crash
By The Associated Press - 08/22/09
MISSOULA (AP) — A Missoula-area pilot died in an air tanker crash near Reno, Nev.
The pilot was identified as Dave Jamsa by an official with Minuteman Aerial Applications, which owned the single-engine Air Tractor 802 that crashed Thursday.
“He was trying to make his drop when he crashed,” Minuteman director of operations Forest Gue told the Missoulian newspaper in a story published Friday. “We’re doing everything we can to find out why it happened.”
The plane went down about 125 miles northeast of Reno while crews battled the Hoyt fire, which has burned about 2,000 acres, or 3.1 square miles, and was about 5 percent contained.
Jamsa had worked at Minuteman for four years and is survived by his wife and four children.
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Montana pilot killed in firefighting tanker crash
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Search on for pilot in F-16 crash
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Emergency responders from Hill Air Force Base in Utah searching for pilot
Crash site found in remote area of Utah Test and Training Range
No contact has been made with the pilot, who was on a routine training mission
(CNN) -- A search was under way Tuesday for the pilot of an F-16 that crashed over the Utah Test and Training Range west of Salt Lake City, Utah, the Air Force said.
An F-16 from Hill Air Force Base trains in Utah in 2001.
The F-16 crashed about 10:25 p.m. Monday, according to a posting on the Air Force's Web site.
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Bodies Found Near Air France Crash Site
By EMMA VANDORE, AP
(June 6) — A Brazilian military official says searchers found two male bodies in the Atlantic Ocean near the area where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed.
Air force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral says the bodies were recovered Saturday morning.
They were picked up roughly 400 miles northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast.
Amaral says a suitcase also was found containing a plane ticket for the flight.
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Bodies Found Near Air France Crash Site
Thursday, April 2, 2009
How a small community can cope with great loss
By Lily G. Casura
STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Here in St. Helena, the community is reeling from the recent tragedy in which 14 extended family members of the Jacobson family, including many small children, died. Dr. Erin Jacobson and his wife, Amy, were well-loved by their friends, family members and colleagues. Their children, Taylor, Ava and Jude, were also beloved locally.
And the question remains, how does a small-town community cope with such a great loss? And what local and national resources are available to them?
From the St. Helena Cooperative Nursery School, where parents gathered last week to grieve in tandem; to the St. Helena Hospital, where a memorial to the Jacobson family is set up in the lobby, and added to daily; to informal gatherings of friends and family at Taylor’s Refresher, or Miner Family Vineyards; to Saturday’s memorial service for the family; the Napa Valley reverberates with echoes of pain and suffering and compassion. And fortunately, also, with help for the grieving.
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How a small community can cope with great loss
Sunday, March 22, 2009
17 killed in Montana plane crash
A single-engine airplane crashed close to this cemetery near Butte, Montana, on Sunday, killing at least 17 people, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. "We drove into the cemetery to see if there was any way my husband could help someone," crash witness Martha Guidoni said. "We were too late -- there was nothing to help." full story
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Passengers yell: 'The plane's going to blow up!'
A passenger aboard Continental Airlines Flight 1404 described a scene of panic as the plane skidded off the runway and caught fire while trying to take off at Denver International Airport on Saturday. "Everybody was trying to get off the plane," passenger Gabriel Trejos told CNN affiliate KUSA. "Everybody was yelling, 'The plane's going to blow up, the plane's going to blow up!''' At least 38 people were hospitalized, an official said. full story
KMGH: Passenger describes harrowing flight
Passenger saw engine on fire
Monday, November 17, 2008
Air crash in B.C. kills 7; 1 survives
One man walked away with minor injuries from a plane crash that killed all seven others aboard Sunday off British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.
By Kristi Heim and Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporter
A remarkable story of survival is emerging from a plane crash that killed seven people Sunday off British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.
The sole survivor scrambled out of the wreckage just before it burst into flames and, enduring burns to his body, hiked for several hours down a hillside to the waterfront, according to reports. There, wrapped in a yellow sheet, he was able to flag down a coast-guard boat.
The chartered plane, a Grumman Goose flown by Pacific Coastal Airlines, crashed around 10:30 a.m. on remote South Thormanby Island, 35 miles northwest of Vancouver in the Strait of Georgia, said Wayne Bamford, a Canadian coast-guard officer. It had been taking a construction crew from Vancouver International Airport to Powell River, B.C.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
DJ AM Says He Was 'Saved For A Reason' after plane crash
Oct 15 2008 1:46 PM EDT
DJ AM Says He Was 'Saved For A Reason' In First Post-Crash Interview'I can't believe I made it,' he tells People magazine.
By James Montgomery
DJ AM considers himself "blessed" to have survived the September 19 plane crash that left him and Travis Barker with second- and third-degree burns and killed four others, including Barker's assistant, Chris Baker, and bodyguard Charles Still.
In his first interview since the crash, AM told People magazine that during his recovery, he grew closer to God and that he now believes he was saved "for a reason."
"I've prayed every night for the past 10 years. There's a lot more to thank God for now. My philosophy is 'live life to the fullest,' [and] I was saved for a reason," he told the magazine. "Maybe I'm going to help someone else. I don't question it. All I know is, I'm thankful I'm still here."
(Click for People Magazine's first post-crash photos of DJ AM.)
He also said that while he's grateful to be alive, he's wrestled with guilt, knowing that four people didn't survive the crash.
"My emotions go back and forth," he said. "At the first hospital, I screamed, 'Thank you!' Then I wondered, 'Why did I live?' I can't believe I made it. Any second, it can all be gone."
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Why does someone die? I've asked myself this question most of my life. I survived too many times and wondered why I did. Last week I began to ask why my brother died at the age of 56, and again, Tuesday at his funeral. I doubt I will ever know the answers anymore than I will ever know why some veterans survive combat but cannot survive in peace.
We will only understand when God allows us to. For most of us, that day will come when our souls return to Him. Others will be blessed on this earth to discover that they survived to serve others in offering hope, help, stretching out a hand with compassion and understanding. Most of the chaplains I know suffered in their lives, took that pain and reached out to others knowing what it felt like. Almost every person I know working on PTSD has either lived with it or came into contact with someone who touched their lives. We have "skin in the game" and it is far more than a casual observation.
While I was away with my family for my brother's funeral, I didn't watch much TV or read. I was out of contact with what was going on in the world. I didn't know who died of a non-combat death, who committed suicide or anything else that normally I would have been focused on like a lazar. It was stunning to me to understand how so many can be so oblivious to the suffering and trumps of others. They just focus on their own lives, needs, wants and their own trials, unable and unwilling to see any of what we see.
People who read my blog are focused on all of this. We share what we learn in order to find answers through news across the nation and the world. Ask a neighbor if they heard of the suicide of Chris Dana or how his death touched the lives of so many in the Montana National Guard that they came up with their own program to save lives, and they won't have a clue. Ask them if they heard the news about any of the others and they will be shocked. What they are most shocked about is that the government failed to take care of them. It was too easy to assume the government is taking care of all those who serve.
DJ Am, thinks his live was saved for a reason and he plans on doing something about it. Think about your own life and what you can do to make a difference. The beginning is reading blogs like mine. The rest is in your hands. Make sure that when you have the opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, you take it right then and there without trying to find excuses to not do it.
Senior Chaplain Kathie Costos
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"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation." - George Washington
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Blink-182's Barker critically injured in plane crash
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Coroner releases names of four killed in Learjet crash in South Carolina
NTSB begins investigation; says aircraft was new, only in service since 2007
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and disc jockey DJ AM critically injured
Both being treated at burn center in Augusta, Georgia, hospital says
(CNN) -- Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were in critical condition with extensive burns Saturday after a jet crash that killed four people, authorities said.
Lexington County Coroner Harry O. Harman said all the dead in Friday's crash were Californians.
He identified them as pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills; co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad; Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City; and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles.
The Associated Press reported that Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Plane crash rescue at ball field in Cladwell Texas
Dramatic plane crash rescue 1:00
A small plane crashed into a ball field and the rescue is caught on tape. KBTX's Kristen Ross reports. Caldwell Texas
Saturday, August 23, 2008
10 Killed In Plane Crash Near Moab Utah
Last Update: 12:40 pm
MOAB, Utah (AP) - A twin-engine plane crashed and burned near an airport not far from Arches National Park in southeastern Utah, killing the pilot and nine passengers connected with a group of skin cancer clinics, an official said Saturday. The plane was fully engulfed in flames when emergency responders arrived late Friday at the site about 2 miles from the Canyonlands Field airport, and there were no survivors, Grand County Sheriff James Nyland said.
The victims included the director of a company with dermatology clinics in three states and staff members.
Nyland said the plane had taken off from the airport, about 18 miles northwest of Moab.
Officials were initially responding to a call of a fire in the area. When they arrived on scene they discovered the fire was actually something more.
“In that particular area there is hardly any vegetation, it’s out in the desert, so we got a little bit concerned,” said Sheriff Nyland. “Upon reaching the area, it was discovered that we’d had a plane crash.”
He identified them as pilot David White; Dr. Lansing Ellsworth; David Goddard; Mandy Johnson; Marcie Tillery, 29; Valerie Imlay, 52; Keith Shumway, 29; Dallon Ellsworth, 24; Camie Vigil, 25; and Cecilee Goddard, 25.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Experimental plane crashes into house, 3 dead
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NEW: Third victim, who had been in house, dies, official says
Plane crashes into house in North Las Vegas, Nevada
Experimental, home-built plane failed to gain altitude, official says
(CNN) -- A small plane crashed into a house Friday in North Las Vegas, Nevada, killing three people, said North Las Vegas Fire Chief Kevin Brame.
A video image shows a North Las Vegas, Nevada, house after it was hit Friday by a small plane.
He said a small aircraft crashed into the single-family residence.
The pilot was killed, along with one resident of the house, he said.
A third victim, who was also inside the home, died later at a hospital.
Orange flames could be seen shooting from the house, but the wreckage of the airplane was not visible. Watch fire engulf the home »http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/22/plane.into.house/index.html
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Spain:Plane crashed after explosion
A Spanish plane with more than 170 people on board went off the runway Wednesday at Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing at least 90 people, officials said. The crash during take off reportedly followed an explosion on board the budget airline jet, sending up a plume of smoke visible from miles away. developing story
Monday, August 4, 2008
At Least 4 Killed In Oregon Plane Crash
2 Passengers, 2 Children On Ground Die As Single-Engine Plane Crashes Into Vacation Home
GEARHART, Ore., Aug. 4, 2008
(CBS/ AP) A single-engine plane crashed into a fogbound coastal home where a family was vacationing Monday, killing the two people in the plane and at least two children on the ground, authorities said.
One more child was still unaccounted for, officials said, and three more people were injured.
City officials in the resort town Gearhart said in a statement that two adults were aboard the plane that crashed before 7 a.m., apparently hitting a tree during conditions that were described as foggy with low clouds.
Six people were in the four-bedroom rental home at Gearhart for a family reunion and vacation, city officials said.
A mother and two children were flown to Portland for treatment at a burn center, said Michael Griffiths, executive director of the regional emergency transport consortium Life Flight.
At the house, the bodies of two children had been recovered, but a third was still missing, City Administrator Dennis McNally said.
Two more people in the family party had gone out for a walk before the crash and were uninjured, McNally said.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Air Force says no survivors of B-52 crash off Guam
Air Force says no survivors of B-52 crash off Guam
© 2008 The Associated Press
HONOLULU — The Air Force says all six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed Monday off Guam were killed.
An announcement from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam says a wide search effort has shifted focus from rescue to recovery of the aircrew. Two bodies have been found.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
US B-52 crashes 6 crew members missing
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 with six crew members crashed off the island of Guam
Rescuers were searching a point in the Pacific about 30 miles northwest of Guam
The B-52H Stratofortress was based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana
A B-52 was scheduled to fly over crowds celebrating Liberation Day
(CNN) -- A U.S. Air Force B-52 with six crew members on board crashed off the island of Guam on Monday, an Air Force spokesman said.
Search crews have found no survivors, but they are still looking, said Lt. Elizabeth Buendia, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard in Guam. They located an oil slick but have not seen any wreckage, she said.
Rescuers with the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy were searching a point in the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles northwest of Guam, a U.S. territory, where the plane is believed to have crashed, said Capt. Joel Stark, spokesman for Andersen Air Force Base.
He had no information on whether anyone survived.
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