Video broadcast on Japan’s TV NHK of yesterday’s FedEx plane crash at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan: Sadly, the two pilots were both killed; fortunately, nobody else was killed or injured. [Source: YouTube, via Gizmodo]
Video of FedEx plane crashing in Japan
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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Falling bicyclist
March 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
This bicyclist has a spectacular fall in Xiamen City, China, after his bike hit a pot-hole submerged in rainwater:
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Turkish Airlines crash in Amsterdam
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Fortunately, many people walked away from this one. Nine were killed and fifty injured out of 127 passengers and seven crew members as the Turkish Airlines 737 broke into three sections upon crash landing in a field next to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport [CNN]:
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Space waste — debris or not to be
February 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Just as depicted in the animated Pixar film wall-E, now in theaters, kipple is not only covering the earth, but filling up the space around our planet as well. ScienceDaily reports, in Swerve Left To Avoid That Satellite: The Growing Issue Of Space Debris…
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