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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…

NZ probes skydiving plane crash that killed 9 (AP)

September 5th, 2010

The scene of the crash where nine people died including an Australian, a German, an Englishman and an Irishman  when their aircraft believed to be carrying a group of skydivers crashed shortly after taking off from the air strip at Fox Glacier, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/NZPA, Hokitika Guardian)  ** NEW ZEALAND OUT **AP - Investigators expressed confidence Sunday that they will learn why an airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, killing four…

9 killed in New Zealand skydiving plane crash (AP)

September 4th, 2010

AP - A light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, killing nine people including four foreign tourists, police said.

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9 people killed in New Zealand plane crash (AP)

September 4th, 2010

AP - Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed Saturday on New Zealand’s South Island, police said.

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Colombian leader praises rescuers in plane crash (AP)

August 18th, 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 - Authorities on Wednesday reopened the island runway where a jetliner crashed with 131 people aboard, clearing the way for flights after crews worked overnight to remove spilled fuel…

Plane crash in northern Siberia kills at least 11 (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

AP - A twin-engine passenger plane crashed early Tuesday near a northern Siberia town, killing at least 11 of the 15 people on board, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said.

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Rain slows search for dead in Pakistan plane crash (AP)

July 29th, 2010

A video grab shows debris from a commercial Pakistani passenger plane lying scattered amid shrubbery in hills near the capital, Islamabad, July 28, 2010.  Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least 20 people from the wreckage of a Pakistani passenger plane which crashed near the capital on Wednesday, an official said.  The Airblue jet was carrying 146 passengers and six crewmen. REUTERS/via Reuters TVbr /<br /></a> (PAKISTAN - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)AP - Emergency teams battled heavy rains and mud Thursday to recover bodies strewn over hills overlooking the Pakistani capital following the country’s worst-ever plane crash.


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Exit polls: Komorowski takes Polish presidency (AP)

July 4th, 2010

Bronislaw Komorowski, parliament speaker and acting president, and his wife Anna greet supporters after acknowledging the exit polls of the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, July 4, 2010.  Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Interim president Bronislaw Komorowski appeared to have held off a last-minute surge from the identical twin brother of the late president, who died in an April plane crash…

Runoff looms in Polish presidential election (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of Poland's Law and Justice Party speaks at his party election headquarters for  his supporters after acknowledging exit polls for the early Presidential elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010.   (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A somber election season in Poland was prolonged by two weeks Sunday when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczynski, the president killed…

Polish election candidate visits his twin’s tomb (AP)

June 18th, 2010

AP - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a leading candidate in Poland’s presidential election, interrupted the last day of campaigning Friday to visit the grave of his identical twin — the leader whose…