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Donor organ delivered despite plane crash (AFP)

November 20th, 2010

A plane carrying a donor organ crashed and caught fire on landing at Birmingham Airport, injuring two men on board although the body part was safely retrieved, police said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A plane carrying a donor organ crashed and caught fire on landing at Birmingham Airport, injuring two men on board although the body part was safely retrieved, police…

Al Qaeda Yemen wing claims parcel plot, UPS crash (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - Al Qaeda’s Yemen-based wing claimed responsibility for a foiled plot to send explosive parcels to the United States last week, and for the crash of a UPS jet…

Al Qaeda’s Yemen wing claims parcel bomb plot, UPS crash (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - Al Qaeda’s Yemen-based wing claimed a foiled plot to send explosive parcels to the United States, and responsibility for a September UPS plane crash in Dubai in a…

Cuba says plane crash killed all 68 on board (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - All 68 people on board a Cuban Aero Caribbean passenger plane were killed, including 28 foreigners, when it crashed in a central province on Thursday after issuing an…

Charter plane crash kills 21 in Pakistan (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - A small plane chartered to international oil company ENI crashed after taking off from Pakistan’s Karachi airport on Friday, killing all 21 on board, officials said.

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Cuba says all 68 on board died in plane crash (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - All 68 people on board an Aero Caribbean plane were killed when it crashed in mountainous central Cuba on Thursday after issuing an emergency call, a government website…

Rescuers pulling bodies from Cuba plane crash (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - Rescue workers began pulling bodies from the burning wreckage of an Aero Caribbean plane that crashed in central Cuba with 68 people on board on Thursday after issuing…

Qantas plane lands in Singapore after crash scare (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - A Qantas Airways passenger plane was forced to shut down one engine and return to Singapore’s Changi airport on Thursday, ending speculation that it had crashed, Singapore state…

Austrian man with robotic arm dies after crash (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

FILE - The Nov. 27, 2009 file photo shpws Christian Kandlbauer from Austria presenting an artificial arm in Vienna, that is temperature and pressure sensitive and feels real to the person wearing it. He was the first in Europe to wear the innovative high-tech artificial arm and died after the car he was driving veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Christian Kandlbauer lost both arms in an electrical accident in 2005 but was able to live a largely normal life thanks to a mind-controlled robotic prosthetic left arm and a normal prosthesis in place of his right arm. The 22-year-old died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 said Andreas Waltensdorfer, a senior physician at a hospital in the southern city of Graz, where Kandlbauer had been in intensive care since Tuesday, the day of the crash.  (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - An Austrian man who was the first in Europe to wear an innovative high-tech artificial arm has died after the car he was driving veered off the road…

Small Dutch passenger ferry capsizes after crash (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

AP - A freight ship struck a passenger ferry in a canal near Amsterdam Friday, capsizing the smaller vessel and knocking several people into the water, national police say.

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