Plane crash in Karachi kills 21
November 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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KARACHI: A privately-owned aircraft belonging to an oil company crashed Friday soon after taking off from Karachi Airport, killing all 21 people aboard.
The plane crashed near a residential area in Gulistan-e-Jauhar Town at 7:13am.
Pervez George, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority, said the aircraft crashed due to a technical fault soon after taking off.
Speaking to journalists at the site of the crash, Lt. Colonel Noor Alam said: “”The plane has been destroyed.”
“The dead bodies are burned beyond recognition. It could not be recognized whether they are men or women. We don’t know nationalities.”
“All people aboard the plane have died,” he said.
To a question, Alam said that all bodies have been pulled out of the wreckage. Trend Pk
21 dead as small plane crashes in Karachi
November 4, 2010 by Trend PK
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Staff Report
KARACHI: At least 21 were killed after a small charter plane crashed in Gulistan-e-Johar immediately after taking off from Karachi Airport Friday morning.
The plane took off at 7:15am.
DIG Karachi East confirmed the death toll.
Speaking to journalists at the site of the crash, Lt. Col. Noor Alam said that there is no survivor.
He said that all people aboard the plane died and that they could not be identified.
Alam said that bodies are being pulled out of the wreckage. Trend Pk
Times square bomb suspect claims Taliban support
The Times Square bomb suspect claimed during his lengthy interrogation that he received financial support from the Pakistani Taliban for his failed one-man operation, two U.S. law enforcement officials close to the probe said Friday.
Investigators believe funding for Faisal Shahzad in the United States was channeled through an underground money transfer network known as hawala, the officials said. But, one official told, there’s a belief that no one in the U.S. who got him the funds was aware of what they were for.
The Pakistani-American was the only person in the United States who was operational in the plot to attack Times Square with a crude gasoline-and-propane car bomb on May 1, the official said. The bomb did not explode and no one was hurt.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation has not been completed.
The attempted attack set off a massive probe involving hundreds of federal agents in several cities. Nearly three weeks later, investigators have so far concluded that once he was funded, Shahzad acted alone, the officials said.
Three men were arrested last week in New England on immigration charges as authorities followed the money trail. Authorities said they were suspected of providing money for Shahzad; a prosecutor said one had Shahzad’s cell phone number and his first name written on an envelope in his apartment.
All have denied knowing anything about the plot.
They have no connection to this man, Saher Macarius, a lawyer for two of the men, said Friday.
India: 160 feared dead as plane overshoots runway
160 feared dead as an Air India Express aircraft overshot the runway at the Mangalore airport on Saturday morning. As per reports, 163 passengers and 6 crew members were onboard the aircraft.
Karnataka home minister has said that around 160 people may have died in the accident. He also said that the plane crashed around 10 km away from the airport.
The Mangalore police has said that there could be several causalties. Emergency services have been installed at the site of the accident. Almost 25 ambulances have reached the site.
The plane burst into flames after overshooting the runway. The injured were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital.
All the contact with the aircraft was lost after 6.30 am as the left wing of the plane caught fire.
DGCA has said that they merely have preliminary reports of the accident till now, and are trying to gather more information, including the number of passengers.
Crewmembers dead in Georgia Navy plane crash
April 13, 2010 by Trend PK
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MORGANTON: A Florida-based Navy plane crashed in the north Georgia woods on Monday, killing three crew members, and authorities were looking for a fourth person believed to be aboard, officials said.
Naval Air Station Pensacola spokesman Harry White said authorities have not confirmed whether the pilot was among those killed when a T-39N went down at around 4:26 p.m. No one on the ground was injured, he said.
The plane was part of Training Air Wing 6, which conducts routine cross-country missions through Fann in County, where it crashed, about two hours north of Atlanta, on the edge of the North Carolina and Tennessee borders, White said. Authorities don”t know what caused the plane to go down and are putting together an investigative team, White said.
elizabeth taylor
April 10, 2010 by Trend PK
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Jason Winters, The Ninth Husband Of Dame Elizabeth TaylorBy Meena Kar
jason2Los Angeles, Apr 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the greatest actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age is set to wed for the ninth time. Reports claim that the actress had recently got engaged to 49 year-old Jason Winters, a businessman who owns Sterling Winters Management. 78 year-old Elizabeth Taylor would be marrying for the ninth time and according to reports, the actress claims to be deeply in love with her new beau.
Jason Winters has recently become the manager of Janet Jackson. The actress who is known not only for her beauty and acting skills among the Hollywood film fraternity but also for her adventurous life style, has reportedly mentioned to a source during an interview that Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful persons that she had come across in her life and that is why she had fallen in love with him.
A source close to the couple had reportedly mentioned to a popular magazine that the relationship between Jason Winters and Elizabeth Taylor is no secret and that the two have got engaged comes not as a surprise. The source claims that the couple has been together for a long period and that there is no doubt that they are in love. The insider also said that the actress never thought that she would fall in love again, but did eventually after she met Jason Winters. Jason Winters has reportedly bought a home for the couple recently. Elizabeth Taylor has four children from her previous marriage. She has two children from her marriage with Michael Wilding and one child each with Mike Todd and Richard Burton.
katyn massacre
April 10, 2010 by Trend PK
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Nation in mourning after Polish president, 95 others, killed in crash
A woman signs a book of condolence for late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw April 10, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife, Poland’s central bank head and its military chief were among 97 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport on Saturday.
A woman signs a book of condolence for late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw April 10, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife, Poland’s central bank head and its military chief were among 97 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport on Saturday. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
‘You get chills down your spine,’ Kaczynski’s predecessor says, of plane crash that killed 96 people and devastated upper echelons of nation’s political and military institutions
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96, officials said.
Russian and Polish officials said there were no survivors on the 26-year-old Tupolev, which was taking the president, his wife and staff to events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn forest of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police.
Bomb blast near Iran jail
April 10, 2010 by Trend PK
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TEHRAN: A bomb blast outside a prison in the southwest Iranian city of Ilam wounded several people on Saturday, the semi-official news agency reported.
“Moments ago a bomb was detonated in front of the central prison of the city of Ilam,” Fars said, adding that the wounded were being taken to hospital.
Pilot error may have caused Polish crash-local spokesman
April 10, 2010 by Trend PK
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SMOLENSK: Pilot error was a possible reason for the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek on Saturday, a spokesman for the Smolensk local government said.
“The pilot was advised to land in Minsk, but decided to land in Smolensk,” said the spokesman, Andrei Yevseyenkov. The plane crashed in thick fog about 2 km (1.3 miles) from the airport in the western Russian region of Smolensk.
gordon lightfoot
February 19, 2010 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com As you can see, this post was originally about the death of Gordon Lightfoot, as reported in the Ottawa Citizen. The Citizen’s report has been removed, because Lightfoot’s manager has confirmed that his client is about as dead as Jeff Goldblum. In fact, as I write this update, Lightfoot is on [...]
