Archive for February, 2012
- US Federal Aviation Administration Records Show Nigerian Aviation Industry Encourages Air Disasters
Documents on three deadly jetliner crashes in Nigeria - including one in which a plane filled with children going home for Christmas burst into flames - offer a harrowing look at the loosely enforced safety regulations and oversight in Africa's most populous nation.
- In Vietnam, Man Opens Plane's Emergency Door So Mom With Crying Child Can Get Out
A mom with a screaming child wanted a quick getaway from a plane on the tarmac in Vietnam and asked for help. The man next to her obliged by opening the emergency exit and triggering the escape slide.
But that's as far as they got.
- DEFIANCE: IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD UNVEILS 3 NEW NUCLEAR PROJECTS
- NIGERIAN UNDERWEAR BOMBER, ABDUL FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB GETS LIFE IN PRISON
A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for al-Qaida was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009.
The mandatory punishment for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the well-educated son of a wealthy banker, was never in doubt after he surprised the courtroom and pleaded guilty to all charges on the second day of trial last fall.
- Indian woman awarded $10,000 for refusing to defecate in the open
An Indian woman has been rewarded for her "bold" decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday.
Anita Narre was handed $10,000 by Sulabh International, a non-profit group, for refusing to defecate in the open and sparking a "toilet revolution" in her village in central Madhya Pradesh, according to the district magistrate.
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