Section: US & Canada
Dutch say black box damaged but voice data ok
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — Dutch investigators say that the voice recorder from the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine was damaged but not manipulated, and its data is still intact.Dutch investigators handed two so-called black box flight recorders to a lab in southern England on Wednesday.The Dutch Safety Board says in a...
Plane crashes in Taiwan, 47 Trapped, Feared Dead
(TAIPEI, Taiwan) — A plane landing in stormy weather crashed outside an airport on a small Taiwanese island late Wednesday, and the transport minister said 47 people were trapped and feared dead. MoreFlight Horror: Passenger Plane Crashes in Stormy Taiwan NBC NewsBleak Homecoming: First Ukraine Crash Bodies Land in Netherlands NBC...
Pro-Russia rebels use ‘powerful’ anti-aircraft missile to shoot down two Ukrainian fighter jets near MH17 crash site
The insurgents deny having missiles that can hit a passenger jet at cruising altitude — 10,000 metres — but their leader says they can hit a target at 3,500 metres …read more Source: Calgary...
Departure Ceremony for Plane Victims
Representatives from Australia and the Netherlands spoke at a ceremony for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before a flight departed with their remains from the Kharkiv airport in Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
‘We live in a hell beyond hell’: Aussie parents who lost three children on MH17
Australian parents Anthony Maslin and Rin Norris released an emotional statement after their three children and Norris’s father were killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine last Thursday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
EU Falters on Russia Sanctions
Flags fly at half mast in the Netherlands. It marks a day of mourning as the bodies of the MH17 flight victims arrive. 193 of the 298 killed were Dutch. Calls for tougher sanctions on Russia over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis continue, and the EU is facing criticism for taking its time. The region had vowed to put pressure on Vladimir...
Malaysia jet victims’ bodies arrive in Netherlands
Dutch cargo plane crew members wait as Ukrainian honor guards load a coffin with the body of a Malaysian Airlines plane passenger in Kharkiv airport, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. The Dut… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
MH17: An Unintended Consequence
The evidence indicating that MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made radar guided Surface to Air Missile (SAM) is compelling. The perpetrators, on the other hand, will be harder to discern, requiring independent forensic experts to sift through the vast debris field created by the jet breaking up at a speed of over 500mph and at an altitude of...
Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin Fears Putin Is Isolating The Country
MOSCOW, July 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Some forces in Russia are interested in the country’s isolation but the Russian business wants to invest in global markets, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday. Kudrin told ITAR-TASS that he was “surprised with the extent of anti-western rhetoric that has emerged” following the...
Two more Ukrainian fighter jets down over eastern Ukraine
Russian separatists downed two Ukrainian fighter jets Wednesday, not far from where last week they are thought to have downed a passenger jet that killed 300. …read more Source: Miami...
