Dc-10 a Near Casualty of Fire
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By Media News  The new, largely experimental supertanker, a wide-body jetliner converted to an aerial firefighting aircraft and placed on call for the state this year by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, almost crashed Monday evening fighting a blaze in Kern County.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite an official French report declaring that a metal strip that fell off a Continental DC-10, and a fuel tank design flaw on the Concorde, were directly responsible
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The jet they had leased at their own expense and filled with medical supplies taxied to a stop at Kabul International Airport. On the runway, not 50 yards away, Vance Moss saw black smoke from the charred shell of a burning plane billowing into a blue sky.
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The first bomb fatality in one of the U.S. Armyâs new armored vehicles has raised questions on its design.
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The historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House caught fire this morning, and D.C. firefighters responded en masse to fight the blaze.
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Crew members of the Canadian submarine which burst into flames under the North Atlantic last week have described the &#39;brutal&#39; fire which filled the vessel with choking fumes and caused the death of one of their colleagues.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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A terror attack on a tanker delivering liquefied natural gas at a U.S. port could set off a fire so hot it would burn skin and damage buildings nearly a mile away, government scientists say in a report expected to influence where new multibillion-dollar terminals will be built.
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The crew of an RAF Nimrod reported a fire shortly before it crashed in Afghanistan, the force's top officer says.
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Jakarta: At least 10 people were killed and almost 50 injured when a passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked runway and seven crew aboard the plane operated by budget airline Lion Air, which was landing at Adisumarno airport in the city of Solo after a
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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Three years ago, a state-appointed panel said finding ways to quickly get military helicopters and planes airborne to battle raging wildfires should be a "high priority." Yet, last week, delays launching aircraft revealed a system still suffering from communication and planning shortfalls.
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The hoopla is normally reserved for the highest dignitaries. When Brooke Ellison took her first flight, she was greeted by two fire trucks on either side of the plane spraying an arc of water over it. Ellison's flight Friday was no small feat: She has been paralyzed from the neck down since being hit by a car in 1990.
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Ten people die and at least 19 are hurt in a fire at a home for the elderly and mentally ill in the US.
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It's a bad omen when one of America's national birds dies knocking out the power lines for 10,000 people
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Flames and thick black smoke are sighted at a US government building in Washington DC.
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By The Associated Press  A look at some close calls in space:  INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ALARM: On Sept. 18, 2006, a faulty oxygen generator caused smoke and led to a spill of a toxic irritant. Astronauts got the situation under control within half an hour.