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‘Miracle’ crash: Jet splits apart, most survive (AP)

August 16th, 2010

A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashed as it prepared to land and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early Monday.…

One forest, two Polish tragedies, 70 years apart (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Volunteers carry candles in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 11, 2010, after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday April, 10, 2010, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The leader of Poland’s government in exile while the nation was under Soviet-backed rule. The shipyard worker whose firing helped ignite the labor uprising that ultimately toppled communism…

Officials fear ship breaking apart on Barrier Reef (AP)

April 4th, 2010

In this handout photo supplied by Maritime Safety Queensland on Sunday, April 4, 2010, the Chinese-registered 230 meter-long bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef Saturday April 3, 2010, about 70 kilometers east of Great Keppel Island, Australia. The vessel, which was carrying about 65,000 metric tons (72,000 U.S. tons) of coal from Gladstone, has 950 metric tons (1,000 U.S. tons) of oil on board and unknown amount of oil is in the water and a national oil spill response plan has been activated. (AP Photo/Maritime Safety Queensland)  EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - A coal-carrying ship that ran aground and was leaking oil on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was in danger of breaking apart, officials said Sunday.


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