A bus with North Macedonian license plates crashed and erupted into flames around 2am local time as it was traveling on a freeway early Tuesday morning, killing at least 45 people, Interior Ministry official Nikolai Nikolov told a local TV station. At least 45 people were killed after a bus …
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A small private plane carrying de Vries and another man, 54-year-old Thomas Fischer, crashed down in Hampton Township, New Jersey near the border with New York on Thursday, killing both, the New Jersey state police told media outlets. Bezos’ company Blue Origin also noted the entrepreneur’s passing, saying it was …
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The aerospace firm agreed to settle with lawyers representing families of some of the victims on Wednesday, vowing to compensate them “fully and fairly” so long as they drop any claims to punitive damages over a crash that killed 157 people, Reuters reported, citing a filing in the US District …
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Aiming to find out whether it’s possible to protect Earth from a potentially hazardous space object, NASA is sending a spacecraft to try and change an asteroid’s path by crashing it into the speeding rock. Called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission — worth $330 million — is …
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Operated by local company Sila Airlines, the aircraft was flying from the city of Irkutsk to a regional airport in Kazachinskoye, located some 500 kilometers to the northeast. According to Russian prosecutors, the pilots tried to do a go-around but the plane eventually missed the landing strip and crashed in …
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France and other budding authoritarian countries with ambitions to lord over their citizens’ movements by introducing health passes have eyes that are bigger than their stomachs. They have proven repeatedly that they’re far too incompetent to practice proper authoritarianism. Events last week are a case in point. French President Emmanuel …
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The Beriev Be-200 amphibious plane crashed in Turkey’s southern province of Marash on Saturday. The aircraft with five Russian servicemen and three Turkish officials on board crashed into the side of a mountain, disintegrating on impact. The plane crashed shortly after it dumped a load of water onto a mountain …
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The destroyed aircraft was a single-engine Mooney M20, which had taken off from Alexandria Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It was on its way to Flying Cloud Airport, in Eden Prairie, when it crashed into an empty lot next to a residence. Footage of the incident filmed …
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McAfee’s net worth was estimated at $100 million in 1994, when he left the antivirus company he founded. What was left of it following the 2008 financial crisis perished after the government of Belize seized his assets in 2012, his widow Janice said in a tweet on Monday. “When I …
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Officials put out an emergency warning when the AN-28 light aircraft lost contact on Friday. After a frantic search of its last known location, authorities announced that all 18 people had survived the impact. Photos and videos emerging from the scene revealed that the plane, a Soviet-era turboprop jet, had …
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