Weather Conditions Hamper Rescuers in Freighter Crash
675280
Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
391271
Heavy weather could delay the return to Earth of space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven after a successful mission to the International Space Station, a NASA spokesman said Wednesday.
448746
UTAPAO, Thailand -- Heavy air traffic over the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian city of Banda Aceh had delayed the late-night US military relief flight for hours, so the exhausted American crew of the C-17 Globemaster III, wearing coats and hats to ward off the unseasonable cold at the Thai naval base here, hunkered down in the tightly packed cargo plane for a ...
114494
The launch of the US space shuttle Discovery was scuttled by poor weather, just minutes before the spaceship was to blast off on a rare night flight.
72849
Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
604528
A disabled freighter loaded with tons of soybeans and a half million gallons of its own fuel was adrift Wednesday in the Bering Sea and in danger of grounding on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
382762
HEAVY seas and high winds were last night hampering an operation involving British and Irish ships to rescue a Canadian submarine with 57 crew on board.
527079
Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.
683648
The shuttle Discovery is ready to roar, but poor weather might keep it on the ground today.
260376
Bad weather could delay the return to Earth of space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven after a successful mission to the International Space Station, a NASA spokesman said Wednesday.
610218
Bad weather hampers efforts to rescue thousands of people stranded after a cyclone hits Pakistan's coastline.
441981
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA ruled out the first opportunity for the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis to land in Florida on Thursday because of bad weather, but may still make an attempt later in the day.
656492
Snow, sleet and freezing rain pelted the Carolinas on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands and causing hundreds of accidents on one of the busiest travel and shopping days of the year. At least two people were killed.
675222
A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast sinks in "very rough weather", the Coastguard says.
699822
British and Irish rescue teams were scrambled to airlift 23 people off a ferry in the Irish Sea on Thursday night after the ship ran into difficulties in bad weather, officials said.
519422
JAKARTA : Bad weather was the main cause of an accident which killed 26 people aboard an airplane whose spoiler did not work well, Indonesian investigators said on Thursday.
248422
Twenty-strong crew saved after Greek-registered cargo ship gets into difficulties in Channel