Category:Iain Macdonald (Wikinewsie)/Aviation

Aviation articles by Wikinewsie Iain Macdonald. Rescue helicopter crash kills six in Abruzzo, Italy UK Civil Aviation Authority issues update on Shoreham crash response Nigerian jet attacks refugee camp, killing dozens Fighter jet crashes during Children's Day airshow in Thailand Plane carrying 92 crashes into Black Sea near Sochi Hijackers divert Libyan passenger jet to Malta Pakistan...
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China’s ‘Bandit King’ given life term in ‘massive’ bribery case

Saturday, May 19, 2012 Lai Changxing, dubbed the Bandit King, has been given a life sentence for years of smuggling and corruption that added up to billions of US dollars or Pounds sterling. The Chinese court described the values as "massive". Lai smuggled goods worth more than £2 billion into Xiamen, bypassing more than £1 billion in import duty. He paid 64 local officials a total of almost...
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Andrea Muizelaar on fashion, anorexia, and life after ‘Top Model’

Monday, November 26, 2007 In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada's Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. From working in a dollar store in her hometown of Whitby, Ontario, to modeling haute couture in Toronto, she had reached her dream of becoming a true Top Model. But at what cost? Unknown to casual television viewers,...
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Special Features Of Jfk Airport Car Service}

See More About: Used Skoda Octavia Wagon Thomson Skoda Used Cars Submitted by: Shovon Joarder It is not easy to travel to JFK International Airport, although different medium of transportation services are available there, i.e. shuttle, train and yellow taxi. Since a huge number of people are coming in and going out through this airport on a regular basis, extensive traffic congestion is a...

Scottish Midlothian car crash kills three

Monday, December 24, 2012 Two cars have been involved in a road traffic accident in the Scottish Lothian and Borders region, causing three fatalities and sending three to hospital. The incident occurred on the A68 road approximately 1.5 miles south of the Midlothian village of Pathhead when a Škoda Octavia and a Nissan Note travelling in opposite directions collided at approximately 0730 UTC...
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Scottish Midlothian car crash kills three

Monday, December 24, 2012 Two cars have been involved in a road traffic accident in the Scottish Lothian and Borders region, causing three fatalities and sending three to hospital. The incident occurred on the A68 road approximately 1.5 miles south of the Midlothian village of Pathhead when a Škoda Octavia and a Nissan Note travelling in opposite directions collided at approximately 0730 UTC...
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Slovak escapes from avalanche using urine

Monday, January 31, 2005 Tatra Mountains –A Slovakian man who was trapped in his car under an avalanche, has escaped by urinating on ice to melt it. The man—who had 60 half-litre bottles of beer with him in the car—literally drank his way to safety. "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it," he said. Rescue workers found...
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2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

Monday, June 23, 2008 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer Association (TCA). Besides of ICT industry, "design" progressively became the critical factor for the future of the...
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Police officer killed as car bomb explodes in Omagh, Northern Ireland

Saturday, April 2, 2011 A bomb positioned below the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom has exploded, killing him. The unidentified 25-year-old officer, recently employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland after graduating from a college of police training three weeks prior, was directly involved in the incident as he sat inside the vehicle outside his residence in...
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Cricket: England beat India in third one-day international

Monday, August 27, 2007 England have beaten India by 42 runs in the third One-Day International of the series at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. India won the toss and captain Rahul Dravid chose to send England in to bat first. England posted a score of 281-8 after fifty overs. After a bright start from opening batsmen Alastair Cook and Matt Prior, who shared a partnership of 76 runs, England...
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