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Orlando Plane Crash

Kelly Hayes - | Story: 6410
  • A single-engine Cessna crash Wednesday has claimed the life of one man and put another in hospital.The plane had been attempting an emergency landing in a golf course when it veered and crashed into a utility pole. The crash was caught on film by a TV news helicopter in Orlando, Florida. Authorities say the pilot reported he was losing oil pressure prior to the crash. The exact cause is still unknown. Witnesses report the engine was off as it came down.Full story
  • The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday. Democrats said Bush owes the country an explanation of why he was so wrong. The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons. Full story
  • Indonesia ordered aid workers Wednesday to declare travel plans or face expulsion from the country's tsunami-devastated Aceh province as authorities moved to reassert control of the rebellion-wracked area. Security concerns threaten to hamper efforts to deliver aid to the province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where more than 100,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless or in need. Full story
  • A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name — Deep Impact — blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse at the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system. With a launch window only one second long, Deep Impact rocketed away at the designated moment on a six-month, 268 million-mile journey to Comet Tempel 1. It will be a one-way trip that NASA hopes will reach a cataclysmic end on the Fourth of July. Full story
  • Five leaders of Israel's Islamic Movement accused of funding the Palestinian resistance group Hamas will be released from jail early under a plea bargain reached with prosecutors.Full story

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