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16-Year-Old Pilot Delivering Medical Supplies to Help Rural Hospitals
TJ Kim, a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia, has turned his flying lessons into a lifesaving mission by delivering medial supplies to rural hospitals in Virginia battling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Blind Dog and His Dad Were Flown to New Jersey to Search for a New Furever Home
Two-year-old Buddy is completely blind, but he gets around with the help of his dad, Big Daddy. The father and son duo were flown to New Jersey to find a new home.
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9 Dead, Including 2 Children, in South Dakota Plane Crash
Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...
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Airmen Killed in Training Crash in Oklahoma Identified
Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.
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Pilot Crashes Crop Duster in Gender Reveal Gone Wrong
After making the big announcement in a gender reveal party, the pilot of a crop duster stalls his aircraft and crashes in a field.
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Preliminary Report: Pilot Was Alive When Plane Crashed Into NJ House
A preliminary autopsy report has found the pilot whose plane crashed into a house in a New Jersey suburb last week was alive at the time of impact.
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NTSB Investigating NJ Plane Crash as Pilot Identified
As officials comb over the scene of a plane crash in Woodbrige Township, trying to find reasons as to why the plane fell from the sky, the pilot has been identified as a cardiologist from New York City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal and Ray Villeda report.
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Lawsuit: Southwest Pilots Streamed Video From Bathroom Cam
A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines by a flight attendant alleges pilots on a 2017 flight had an iPad streaming video from a hidden camera in a bathroom in one of the airline’s jets.
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Aaron Paul: ‘El Camino' Answers ‘What Happened to Jesse?'
Aaron Paul’s character in the popular series “Breaking Bad” was supposed to get killed off at the end of the first season. But producers had a change of heart after witnessing the strong chemistry between his Jesse Pinkman character and Bryan Cranston’s Walter White in a pilot. The decision to keep the story revolved around the duo for five seasons...
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Engineer: Ethiopian Airlines Went Into Records After Crash
Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got...
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Trapped Passengers Couldn't Free Themselves From Harnesses as NYC Helicopter Sank Into East River: Feds
Video from inside a doors-off sightseeing helicopter that crashed in a New York City river last year shows doomed passengers struggling to free themselves from harnesses as the aircraft fills with water, federal investigators said Monday.
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New Details Released in East River Chopper Crash
The NTSB released photos and a transcript of the final moments before the sightseeing helicopter went down into the East River in 2018, trapping the passengers inside. NBC New York’s Stefan Holt reports.
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Peter Weber Is the Star of ‘The Bachelor' Season 24
Prepare for a full season of jokes about planes and windmills. Peter Weber will be the next star of “The Bachelor,” as announced on last night’s finale of “Bachelor in Paradise.” Peter came in third place during Hannah Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette,” and he made quite the splash after Hannah revealed they had sex in a windmill four times...
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Top Canadian Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries Seeking to Race for US
Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic bobsled gold medalist for Canada and one of the top drivers in her sport’s history, is planning to race for the U.S. this coming season and beyond — including at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Humphries has been seeking her release from Canada for several weeks, and she has filed suit against Bobsleigh Canada in an...
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Barbie Releases Dolls Honoring Rosa Parks, Sally Ride
Mattel has released new Barbie dolls that pay tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks and astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. The dolls, which were timed to coincide with Women’s Equality Day on Monday, are the latest in the Barbie’s “Inspiring Women” series. Parks was called the “mother of the modern civil rights movement” after she...
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Pilot Reported Problems Before Crash That Killed New Orleans TV Anchor
A stunt pilot whose plane crashed in New Orleans last week, killing him and local television journalist Nancy Parker, reported unspecified problems shortly after taking off, NBC News reported. The pilot, Franklin J.P. Augustus, had been cleared to return to New Orleans’ Lakefront Airport when the aircraft struck the ground in a nearby field, the National Transportation Safety Board said...
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New Orleans TV Anchor Nancy Parker Dies in Plane Crash While Reporting a Story
An award-winning local TV news anchor in New Orleans died in a plane crash while working on a story about a stunt pilot, NBC News reports. Nancy Parker, 53, was killed along with the pilot, Franklin J.P. Augustus, on Friday when the plane crashed into a field near the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The cause of the crash in under...
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Dorothy Olsen, Pilot in World War II, Dies at 103
“Why would I want to fly a Cessna when I’ve flown a P-51?”‘ she once said.
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Passengers Violently Ejected From Seats on Turbulent Flight; 37 Hurt
Dozens of people were violently slammed off the ceiling of a jetliner that encountered unexpected and intense turbulence over the Pacific Ocean Thursday. An Air Canada flight to Australia made an emergency landing in Honolulu after 37 people were injured, nine seriously, during the sudden loss of altitude that sent people flying into the luggage compartments and aisles of the...