Japan Airlines plane on fire after possible crash with Coast Guard aircraft
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Japan Airlines plane on fire after possible crash with Coast Guard aircraft

A Japan Airlines aircraft with passengers still on board was on fire on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday after a possible collision with a Coast Guard aircraft, Nippon TV reported. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed flames coming out of the windows of the aircraft. A…

Matthew McConaughey’s wife Camila Alves aboard Lufthansa jet that dropped ‘4,000 feet’
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Matthew McConaughey’s wife Camila Alves aboard Lufthansa jet that dropped ‘4,000 feet’

Matthew McConaughey’s wife had quite the adventure on Wednesday. Camila Alves McConaughey was on the Lufthansa flight that was forced to land in Virginia after it was hit by severe turbulence, sending the Germany-bound flight into a brief free fall. Alves posted a clip from her seat to her 1…

The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war
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The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war

How is the Ukraine war going to end? This question bedevils smaller arguments over Western aid to the brave Ukrainian forces. Bringing it into tighter focus is Vladimir Putin’s decision to pass the winter with ever-more-brutal strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian targets — such as last Saturday’s murderous missile…

Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site Nepal crash site
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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site Nepal crash site

A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to a newly opened airport in the tourist town of Pokhara. Jagannath Niraula said the boxes were…

Tampa TSA finds ’emotional support’ boa constrictor in luggage
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Tampa TSA finds ’emotional support’ boa constrictor in luggage

The Transportation Security Administration says that a traveler attempted to bring an “emotional support pet” boa constrictor snake through security. A spokesperson for the agency tweeted that the incident happened at Tampa International Airport in December when a woman had the snake, named “Bartholomew,” in her carry-on bag. The snake was detected when the…

Wright brothers accomplish first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on this day in 1903
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Wright brothers accomplish first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on this day in 1903

The world’s first flight officially took off from North Carolina’s Outer Banks on this day in history, Dec. 17, 1903. The Wright brothers were allegedly the first to successfully fly a powered and controlled airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, after years of experimenting with the concept of flight. Brothers Wilbur and Orville…