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The pilot of a military jet which crashed in California last year, killing four people, opted to fly over populated areas rather than make an emergency landing approach over water, air traffic control tapes revealed Tuesday.
An investigation into the December 8 crash in San Diego showed Marine Corps pilot Dan Neubauer had tried to make an emergency landing at the Miramar base in San Diego rather than attempt to land at a closer alternative, where his approach would have been largely above the Pacific Ocean.
Neubauer ejected safely from his stricken F/A-18D Hornet after his second engine failed.
His plane slammed into a home in the San Diego suburb of University City, killing three generations of a single family: Yoon Young-Mi, 36; her daughters, 15-month-old Grace and seven-week-old Rachel; and Yoon's 60-year-old mother.
According to radio transmission tapes released Tuesday, Neubauer alerted air traffic controllers his jet was in trouble while above the ocean.
"I've got, uh, down to (a) single engine ... possibly a problem with the other engine, and time, uh, fuel remaining about, uh, 20 to 30 minutes," the lieutenant advised.
A controller then asked him where he wanted to land, apparently assuming that Neubauer intended to go to Naval Air Station North Island, which was nearer and approachable over water.The pilot of a military jet which crashed in California last year, killing four... more
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The utility responsible for a massive coal ash spill that destroyed and damaged homes pledged Tuesday to make the affected community "as good, if not better than they were before."
Environmental regulators also approved the start of dredging to remove ash from the Emory River. Until now, officials have been stabilizing the ash and working on a plan, said Anda Ray, the Tennessee Valley Authority's top environmental officer.
Some 5.4 million cubic feet of coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to make electricity, breached an earthen retention wall at the Kingston Fossil Plant about 40 miles west of Knoxville on Dec. 22.
The spill covered 300 acres with grayish, toxic muck, destroyed or damaged 40 homes, and stirred a national debate on regulating ash facilities around the country.
More than 100 environmental groups sent a letter Tuesday to new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson citing the Tennessee spill and calling for greater oversight.
"The disaster at TVA's Kingston plant dramatized the need for federal standards for safe disposal of these wastes, which are virtually unregulated by EPA," the letter said.KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The utility responsible for a massive coal ash spill that... more
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LONDON (Reuters) - Watching films and ads in which alcohol features prominently drives people to immediately reach for the bottle themselves, Dutch researchers said on Wednesday.
An experiment with students showed that volunteers exposed to a film and commercials where alcohol featured predominately drank an average one-and-a-half bottles of beer more during the hour they were watching.
The findings highlight a potential need to explicitly warn people -- and parents -- if movies contain alcohol use because such portrayals have a direct effect on drinking, researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen said.
"Implications of these findings may be that, if moderation of alcohol consumption in certain groups is strived for, it may be sensible to cut down on the portrayal of alcohol in programmes aimed at these groups and the commercials shown in between," Rutger Engels and colleagues wrote.
The study included 80 male university students who were shown two different films, one of which featured alcohol far less prominently. They were also shown either "neutral" commercials or ones with alcohol ads.
During the one-hour film in the laboratory fitted with leather couches and comfortable chairs, the students were also told they could drink as much beer and wine or soft drinks as they liked.LONDON (Reuters) - Watching films and ads in which alcohol features prominently drives... more
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule whether a president can indefinitely detain terror suspects in the United States.
The Obama administration last week sought to dismiss al-Marri's case before the Supreme Court, shortly after prosecutors unsealed a criminal indictment charging him with providing material support to terrorists.
Al-Marri has been held for more than five years in a military brig in Charleston, S.C., after President George W. Bush declared him an enemy combatant. His lawyers have challenged the president's authority to detain—without charge—people legally in the United States.
The Obama administration has asked the justices to render that challenge moot and leave the issue unresolved because al-Marri is headed to a civilian courtroom.
Al-Marri's lawyers filed papers to the Supreme Court late Tuesday asking the justices to keep the case alive because the government "has not renounced the legal authority under which al-Marri was designated and detained as an 'enemy combatant' and has made no commitment that al-Marri will not be re-designated and re-detained as an 'enemy combatant' in the future."
Al-Marri was the only person being held inside the U.S. without being charged, the administration said in court papers, and President Barack Obama "has ordered a comprehensive review of all military detention policies worldwide."
The transfer signals that Obama is likely to handle accused terrorists in a significantly different way from the Bush administration's aggressive use of preventive detention.WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri asked the... more
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska man says he stuffed his girlfriend's cat into a makeshift bong and filled it with marijuana smoke because he was trying to calm the cat down and it seemed to work previously.
Acea Schomaker of Lincoln said Tuesday that he never intended to hurt the cat, Shadow.
He says he didn't want to discipline the cat by swatting or squirting water at it, and didn't want to take it to an animal shelter because he feared it would be euthanized.
Schomaker says he put the cat in the bong three times over the last week and it made the cat "act like a stoned person."
He says he knows now that what he did was wrong.OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska man says he stuffed his girlfriend's cat into a... more
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister has filed for bankruptcy protection for a car dealership he owns in Mississippi.
The free agent running back is in a dispute with Nissan's financing arm. Nissan says McAllister owes more than $6.6 million and nearly $300,000 in interest.
The company says McAllister defaulted on a deal, then exceeded his credit line.
McAllister said Tuesday he filed for bankruptcy to protect his inventory and is searching for an investor.
The 2001 first-round draft pick was released by the Saints in a salary cap move last month and is now looking for a new team. He was due $7 million next season.JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister has... more
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