Comair crash survivor has leg amputated
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Doctors have amputated the left leg of a co-pilot whose plane crashed on takeoff after turning onto the wrong runway, and he does not remember the accident that killed 49 people, his family said Monday.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 15--STOCKTON -- Army 1st Sgt. Ray Wheat still has the prosthetic leg that one of his ROTC students plucked out of a dry ditch in Old Mormon Slough last year.
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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 9 -- A woman who initially survived an accident was presumed dead and left in a car's wreckage with a tarpaulin over her body for an hour after a paramedic failed to check her pulse, officials said.
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Alex Zanardi, who lost both legs in a crash five years ago, completes his return to Formula One Saturday by becoming the first double-amputee to test drive an F1 car.
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IOWA HILL, Calif. - Residents are pulling for a neighbor who was forced to amputate his left leg below the knee using pocket knives after a tree fell on him, pinning him for about 11 hours.
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TAYLORVILLE, Ill. Authorities in central Illinois are still investigating a parachuting accident that killed a 38-year-old Springfield man.
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As odd as it sounds, Jocelyn Cascio's career as a triathlete truly began when she fell off a horse in 2001 and broke her lower leg in three places, requiring lengthy rehabilitation after screws and plates were surgically implanted.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 29 -- An air-traffic controller working alone cleared a Comair regional jet to take off and then turned his back, not seeing the plane head down the wrong runway and crash, killing 49 people in the worst U.S. aviation accident in nearly five years, authorities said Tuesday.
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CENTER MORICHES, N.Y. - A man expecting to find his recently deceased father's belongings opened a plastic bag sent to him by a funeral home and discovered an amputated human leg.
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American skier Bryon Friedman broke his leg in two places in a downhill training crash yesterday.
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Comair expects to be running normally today after being severely crippled by last week&#39;s storm and a computer failure. But judging from the reactions of passengers affected by the weekend&#39;s
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TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A doctor at a public hospital in southern Mexico mistakenly amputated the right leg of an elderly patient who had sought treatment for an infection in his left foot, the patient's family announced Sunday.
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Aron Ralston, the climber who spent five days pinned beneath a boulder in a Utah canyon last year, reflects on his lifesaving self-amputation.
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Mike McNaughton, a soldier who lost his right leg in a mine explosion in Afghanistan, was still in the early stages of recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he received a visit from President Bush.
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One passenger being treated in hospital for lacerations to his arm and back after the rail crash tells his story.
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THOMPSON, Ohio - A man in his 80s with a badly broken leg was stuck hanging upside down in a tree for 10 hours before neighbors rescued him.    Albert Rankel was trimming branches on his northeast Ohio property Sunday when he fell and got stuck in a limb...