Thursday, July 24, 2014

Wow another crash!!!! I seriously think there is a problem with with the aviation industry. Read the full report here: An Air Algerie has crashed into river Niger in Africa according to Chinese State TV reports. 110 passengers and 6 cabin crew members were on board the flight. The plane had taken off from Burkina Faso's capital  Ouagadougou. Air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after its takeoff. Initial...

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

I don't know what is happening nowadays in the aviation industry. There are developing reports that a TransAsia Airways jet has crashed while attempting an emergency landing. Read the full news here:- Wreckage of Flight GE222  At least 47 people were feared dead after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed Wednesday while trying to make an emergency landing in stormy weather in the Penghu Islands off the coast of Taiwan. Taiwan had been...
Russian-backed separatists shot down two Ukrainian attack jets Wednesday in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said, a new sign of intensified fighting for control of the region near Russia's border. The attacks come a day after senior U.S. intelligence officials warned that Russia was continuing to supply rebels with arms and training despite U.S. evidence that separatists used Russian weaponry to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight...

Friday, July 18, 2014

US President Barack Obama has said a surface-to-air missile fired from a rebel-held area in east Ukraine brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The plane crashed on Thursday, killing all 298 people on board. Mr Obama called the attack "an outrage of unspeakable proportions", saying he would ensure "the truth is out". The US and Russia clashed at the UN Security Council, with Russia's envoy putting the blame on Ukraine for its army's...
After Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing over the Indian Ocean four months ago, there were a slew of conspiracy theories about its disappearance. Now, with Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashing in Ukraine, there’s even more about the beleaguered airliner. The most predominant theory is that Russia wanted to start “World War III” by directing rebels in Ukraine to allegedly shoot the plane down. Others have again posited that UFOs...
American officials, who said a surface-to-air missile was responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on Thursday, said they suspected that the missile was either an SA-11 or SA-20, both Russian made. Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777/200 ER  In the early hours of the investigation, determining clear accountability for a missile attack was impossible, in part because all three of the forces in or near the conflict area - the...
Putin may have been target of plane shot down presidential Jet & MH17 intersectioned at same point & echelon minutes apart “I can say that Putin’s plane and the Malaysian Boeing intersected at the same point and the same echelon. That was close to Warsaw on 330-m echelon at the height of 10,100 meters. The presidential jet was there at 16:21 Moscow time and the Malaysian aircraft – 15:44 Moscow time,” a source told the news agency on condition...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, Anton Gerashchenko said, adding that it was hit by a ground-to-air missile. There...

Monday, July 14, 2014

An Orbital Science Corp. Antares launch vehicle lifted off from the state-owned commercial pad here Sunday carrying a Cygnus cargo carrier loaded with almost 3,300 lb. of supplies for the International Space Station (ISS). Launch from the seaside pad the Commonwealth of Virginia built for Antares missions came at 12:52 p.m. EDT, setting up a rendezvous, grapple and berthing with the ISS early Wednesday. The flight was the third for the Antares/Cygnus...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Virgin Galactic is an American-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital human spaceflights as well. Virgin Galactic's...
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