Montpellier airport in France closes after aircraft crashes into lake
The West Atlantic Boeing 737 aircraft missed the runway as it touched down
and ended up with its nose and the engine in the lake water.
PARIS, Sept 28: A cargo plane crashed into a lake after veering off the runway
in France on Tuesday. The Montpellier airport in southern France was closed
for two hours following the mishap. There were no serious injuries reported.
The West Atlantic Boeing 737 aircraft missed the runway as it touched down
and ended up with its nose and the engine in the lake water. According to photos
put out online by France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation
Safety (BEA), the body of the plane rested on the edge of the lake.
The airport was closed to passenger and cargo flights after the accident. All
flights to and from the airport were also cancelled. Twenty-one commercial flights
had been scheduled for the day.
There has been a spike in air accidents especially in the West in the past few months
following full reopening of air services after the two-year covid pandemic restrictions.
Washington State crash
Two brothers on board were rescued uninjured after a small plane crashed last
Sunday evening near Lake Cavanaugh in Washington State. The two were hoisted
out of the woods by a rescue helicopter to safety. The plane was on its way
to Arlington, travelling from Concrete.
A fiery crash in Nevada race
A pilot was killed when their plane went down in a fiery crash during an annual
air race competition in Nevada, US, on September 18. The rest of the events
on the final day were cancelled after the incident. The incident took place
during the championship round on the final day of the Reno Air Races. The Reno
Air Races are held annually in September at Reno Stead Airport in Nevada.
Washington State: 10 killed
One person was killed and rescue crews were searching for nine others after
a small plane crashed along the coast of the US State of Washington on Whidbey
Island, in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, on September 4, the coast guard said.
They are all presumed dead.
Lake Hartwell crash
On September 10, a single-engine plane crashed into a lake near the border
of South Carolina and Georgia killing the pilot, the sole occupant. Lake Hartwell
is a 56,000-acre lake that spans part of the border between Georgia and South
Carolina. The Federal Aviation Administration told news outlets that the Beechcraft
B55 Baron crashed into Lake Hartwell near Anderson Regional Airport in Anderson,
S.C.
Mid-air collision in California
A mid-air collision took place between two small aircraft in the US state of
California in August which resulted in multiple casualties, officials said.
Lake Powell crash
A small plane crashed into Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah
border on August 13. Two were dead and 15 injured. The plane was carrying French
tourists. The aircraft was in 120 feet of water.
Pilot jumps without parachute, dies
A co-pilot of a small plane died on Friday after exiting the aircraft in North
Carolina, US, before it made an emergency landing, in August. His body was found
in a backyard, about 48 km south of the airport. He jumped without parachute.
Crash in Greek city
All eight crew members of a cargo plane that crashed near the Greek city of
Kavala died in the accident in July.
Plane carrying 126 catches fire
A plane carrying 126 people caught fire when its landing gear collapsed on
the runway at Miami International Airport, US, in June.
Myanmar lake crash
A Myanmar fighter jet crashed into a lake in the country's northwest on February
16 due to engine failure killing the piolt.
The incident has triggered a debate on social media whether the officer refused to take orders from a party leader or he was accused of any corruption, some netizens justifying the handling in either case, that Ratnakar was blocking public welfare work! It is true the Govt machinery has been the enemy Number One of the people of this country, existing for itself and for these politicians, for well over seven decades. India will never make an inch of progress - real progress, not make-believe-progress - unless and until this machinery is eliminated.
ANALYSIS: There have been cases of Britons going to Switzerland to get rid of a miserable life. Now once the House of Lords also passes the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, terminally ill Britons can call it quits with the help of a medical practitioner here itself. But the measure when comes into practice, will have very serious social consequences, it is feared. There won't be comparisons, even as tropes in Latin American folklores. The worst case scenario is of those who are not terminally ill also trying to misuse the provision to leave this world early when life with dignity is not available. But that is, in fact, a political question and not a moral imbroglio!
The CCTV footage and the video circulating on social media do not indicate any serious abnormalities in takeoff or descent, it has been confirmed. The disaster is becoming curiouser and curiouser. The flight path was not curvy. And the aircraft maintained a steady, gliding descent with its nose straight and the wings perfectly level. The pilot's distress call does not specify what prevented lift and climb-out. Here are some expert opinions. The sole purpose is to raise travellers' awareness about air travel.
Many of the victims were charred beyond recognition, making identification difficult. Three hundred nineteen body parts have been sent for DNA matching with relatives to determine the identities.
A comment on social media on Kanimozhi's answer on the question of national language read: "Daughter of Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi. Delivered the Birthday Present to her Father!!" (Karunanidhi was born on June 3, 1924)
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Trump said, "Elon is not really leaving" and will be "back and forth" to the White House because DOGE is his "baby." "I think he’s going to be doing a lot of things.”
Musk wrote: "My scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end... The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government." Now on it will be on auto-pilot.
PROGNOSIS: DOGE was prematurely born to protect the country by aborting an impending socio-economic disaster which very few people could see coming.
Although its immediate job was to save American taxpayers billions by slashing waste, eliminating fraud, cutting Government bloat and ensuring utmost efficiency in administration for the good of the people.
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"Coming from a system like in England, empowering," she says she never had an idea of this sort of experience... being asked to “socialise with middle-aged men” who financed the event...humiliating...
Originally from Junagadh, Gujarat, Pataudi was relocated to Etawah Lion Safari in September 2019 before being transferred to Gorakhpur Zoo in 2021. Recently it was receiving treatment for pancreatic and liver infections. After tigress Shakti died in the zoo on May 7 due to bird flu, Pataudi was shifted to Kanpur. Some birds are also reported to have died mysteriously around Gorakhpur. All zoos in UP are closed for fear of a bird flu outbreak.
Three other animals too had died - a tiger, a leopardess and a female wolf. Wolf Bhairavi died last Saturday, leopardess Mona died the Thursday before that and tiger Kesari died on March 30. Some of them had Shakti's symptoms but the cause of death has not been confirmed yet.
As tourist inflow is an indicator of normalcy returning to an erstwhile terrorist infested Valley, the Government has been trying hard to make everything travel-friendly, launching lot many projects and bringing Kashmir on the national rail map that physically completes the process of Kashmir's integration with the rest of India. And that defeats the designs of Pakistan eyeing Kashmir and simply explains a recrudescence of terrorism in J&K.
"It's a big victory not just for Tamil Nadu but for all Indian States. DMK will continue to struggle for and win State autonomy and Federal polity," Chief Minister MK Stalin said.
Of 2.08 km in length, it features 99 spans and a 72.5-metre vertical lift span that rises up to a height of 17 metres, facilitating smooth movement of ships while ensuring seamless train services to the holy town of Rameswaram on Pamban island.
ANALYSIS: There is a lot of hue and cry around the world over Trump's tariffs. But tariff, simply put, is a tax. But unlike tax, it affects the exporting country too. Domestic prices will go up for some time. Nothing more will happen, good or bad!
What motivated Trump's newfound policy, apart from being a stunt to justify his existence in the White House, is a false realisation that increased tariff will make foreign goods prohibitive, thereby boosting local production, and create more jobs, and more prosperity will ring in! If that is true, India would have been shining by now: Producing own Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail and Scotch Whiskies! And what about coconut and palm oil by America!
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PROGNOSIS: It looks a Real New Trump is emerging - courageous, balanced, powerful and disinterested. Determined to save his country from the cliff, he has done quite a few draconian things that will reduce the burden of debts of the Federal entity, like the golden handshake, stopping senseless funding, pulling out of a worthless WHO. Shutting the Education Department is another. On the other hand, running it is also not the Centre's job either (We will convincingly elaborate it in the next chapter).
In India the scene is just the opposite. Centralisation is the core agenda and identity of the ruling dispensation without which it has no existence, or in other words, it exists for that set of schemes only. A realisation of this never dawned upon any Opposition party in 2014 or any time thereafter, what to talk of being able to see it coming 70 years ago! The consequence of all this violation of basic natural law of the universe we cannot predict.
THE AMERICAN CONUNDRUM: Political venom has migrated to top echelons in the US. It was reported last year NASA has become politicised, vitiated. But NASA refuted the charge. How Boeing developed a glitch but its unmanned return was smooth. When Suni-Wilmore were stranded last June, why the return was set for February? Because that comes only after January 20! SpaceX called the shots, for itself and for Trump. Then the mission was manipulated for March for a better bargain! In between, what made Elon Musk 'predict' during campaign if Kamala Harris wins he would be in jail. In politics, it is said, "the only rule is there are no rules." Difficult times for Americans too.
The terminations are part of a large-scale exercise going on all across Fed departments and organisations to reduce wasteful Government expenditure as decided by a Trump in a mess gone berserk, and improve administrative efficiency following the whims of billionaire and his associate Elon MusK and his DOGE. It has not been shared how terminations are going to raise the efficiency bar! It looks like Trump has stolen some of the prescriptions meant for India. But the American problems are quite different.
Suddenly these colonial clerks feel this effortless, little rule will tremendously enhance security and convenience for the railway passengers manifold. More stations will be covered in the next 77 years! (Also See:
New Delhi station stampede... What went wrong?)
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