Indian Ocean Jet Crash

Date: June 30, 2009

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529499,00.html

Source: FOX News

Main Points:

1. A passenger jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as it tried to land during heavy wind on the island nation of Comoros, a Yemeni aviation official said.
2. A Comoros police official said one toddler has been rescued alive from the sea. Bodies were spotted floating in the ocean and the police official said three had been recovered so far.
3. Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said there were 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board when the plane, which had set off from the Yemeni capital of San'a, went down before landing in Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore.
4. "They spotted an oil spill 16 or 17 miles in the Ocean off the (Moroni) airport," Abdul Qader said, adding that three Comoron boats are searching for the debris and bodies. "The wind speed was 61 kilometers per hour as the plane was landing."
5. Rachida Abdullah, a police immigration officer who works at the operations center in the Comoros, told The Associated Press that the bodies of three Comoros nationals were recovered along with debris from the plane. She said the search was ongoing since 4 a.m. Tuesday.
6. The Comoros is an archipelago of three main islands situated about 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometer) south of Yemen, between Africa's southeastern coast and Madagascar. In France, Christophe Prazuck, French military spokesman, says that patrol boat, the Rieuse and fregate Nivose, a reconnaissance ship, were being sent to crash site as well as Transall, a military transport plane.

 

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Breaking News

Michael Jackson's mother files petition seeking legal guardianship of her son's three children, CNN has confirmed.

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Military Coup in Honduras

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Billy Mays dies at 50

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Billy Mays dies at 50 

Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62

Former "Charlie's Angels" actress Farrah Fawcett dies age 62 after losing battle with cancer, representative confirms.

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BREAKING NEWS

A second laboratory confirmed H1N1 Swine Flu death has been confirmed in that of a 30-year-old female in Seminole County.

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Ed McMahon, who gained fame as Johnny Carson's sidekick on "The Tonight Show" and Star Search, has died, his representative says.

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Miami-Dade Reports First H1N1 Swine Flu Death

Date: 6/15/2009

 

Source: CBS4

 

Link: http://cbs4.com/local/h1n1.flu.death.2.1046455.html

 

Main Points:

 

1. The Miami-Dade County Health Department has reported the first local death due to the H1N1 virus. A 9-year-old boy living in Miami-Dade County died from the H1N1 flu. The child's case was one of the 143 confirmed cases of swine flu in Miami-Dade County alone as of June 16, 2009.
2. "Our hearts go out to the family and friends for their loss," said Dr. Lillian Rivera, administrator of the Miami-Dade County Health Department.
3. The boy's death was also the first H1N1 swine flu death in the state of Florida. Across the state, there have been 417 confirmed cases of H1N1 swine flu reported.

 Comments: The virus continues to spread at a fast pace, but it is not that bad yet.

Retired U.S. State Official, Wife Indicted on Charges of Spying for Cuba

Date: June 5, 2009

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/05/retired-state-official-wife-indicted-charges-spying-cuba/

Source: FOX News

Main Points:

1.       The indictment handed down by the attorney general's office in Washington says Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, have been clandestine agents for Cuba for 30 years.

2.       A retired State Department worker with top secret security clearance and his wife have been indicted on charges of spying for Cuba.

3.       The indictment says the pair met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1995, traveling through Mexico under false names. They allegedly made several other trips to Latin America and the Caribbean to meet with Cuban agents.

4.       Kendall Myers worked at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, where he specialized in European matters, before retiring in 2007. The indictment says in his last year of employment, Kendall Myers viewed more than 200 intelligence reports related to Cuba.

 

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Missing French jet hits turbulence over Atlantic

Date: 6/1/2009

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_plane

Source: Associated Press

Main Points:

 

1. A missing Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast. Chief Air France spokesman Francois Brousse said it is possible the plane was hit by lightning.

 

2. Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, left Rio on Sunday at 7 p.m. local time (2200 GMT, 6 p.m. EDT) with 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board, company spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand. About four hours later, the plane sent an automatic signal indicating electrical problems while going through strong turbulence, Air France said.

 

3. The plane "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence" at 0200 GMT Monday (10 p.m. EDT Sunday). An automatic message was received fourteen minutes later "signaling electrical circuit malfunction."

 

4. Brazil's air force did not know where the aircraft disappeared, but a spokesman said it was searching near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha because if an accident had happened in Brazilian waters, it would be in that area. The spokesman said there was no immediate indication of what might have happened to the plane. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with department policy.

 

5. Two Brazilian Air Force planes were searching the waters about 300 kilometers northeast of the coastal city of Natal near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, a Brazilian air force spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with air force policy. A police official on Fernando de Noronha said the weather was clear last night into this morning.

 

6. "It's going to take a long time to carry out this search," Douglas Ferreira Machado, head of investigation and accident prevention for Brazil's Civil Aeronautics Agency, or ANAC, told Globo news. "It could be a long, sad story. The black box will be at the bottom of the sea."

 

7. Air France-KLM CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, at a news conference in Paris, said the pilot had 11,000 hours of flying experience, including 1,700 hours flying this aircraft. No name was released.

 

8. Aviation experts said it was clear the plane was not in the air any longer, due to the amount of fuel it would have been carrying.

 

9. "The conclusion to be drawn is that something catastrophic happened on board that has caused this airplane to ditch in a controlled or an uncontrolled fashion," Jane's Aviation analyst Chris Yates told The Associated Press.

 

10. "I would suggest that potentially it went down very quickly and so quickly that the pilot on board didn't have a chance to make that emergency call," Yates said, adding that the possibilities ranged from mechanical failure to terrorism.

 

11. Barrand said the airline set up an information center at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for the families of those on board. That center said 60 French citizens were on the plane. Italy said at least three passengers were Italian.

 

12. "Air France shares the emotion and worry of the families concerned," she said. The flight was supposed to arrive in Paris at 0915 GMT (5:15 a.m. EDT), according to the airport.

 

13. The Airbus A330-200 is a twin-engine, long-haul, medium-capacity passenger jet, and is 58.8 meters (190 feet) long, according to Airbus. It is a shortened version of the standard A330, and can hold up to 253 passengers. It first went into service in 1998, there are 341 in use worldwide today. It can fly up to 7,760 miles (12,500 kilometers).