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Dramatic Footage Shows Air Canada Jet Colliding With Fire Truck At LaGuardia

Dramatic Footage Shows Air Canada Jet Colliding With Fire Truck At LaGuardia

Published by Jenni Sidey

Summary: Air Canada Express Flight AC8646 collided with a fire truck late Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport The pilot and co-pilot were killed, while dozens of passengers were injured LaGuardia has remained closed since the crash, with flights not expected to resume until 1400 ET ATC audio suggests the controller may have been distracted by an earlier incident *  *  *  Update on Air Canada Express Flight Crash At LaGuardia Surveillance footage posted on X by aircraftmaintenanceengineer appears to show the moment Air Canada Express Flight AC8646 collided with a Port Authority fire truck while landing at LaGuardia late Sunday night. Authorities say both pilots were killed, and dozens of passengers, along with the two occupants of the fire truck, were injured and taken to the hospital. Preliminary details indicate that the Jazz Aviation-operated flight from Montreal collided with the fire truck after it had been cleared to cross the runway while responding to a separate odor-related emergency involving a United Airlines flight. Audio from the tower indicates that an air traffic controller appeared to be …

Astronomers find evidence of two planets colliding 11,000 light-years away

Astronomers find evidence of two planets colliding 11,000 light-years away

Published by Jenni Sidey

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should not be occurring. A star around 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis, which had previously been relatively stable, has begun to flicker in ways that are uncommon for this type of star (similar to our sun). “The light from the star was relatively constant over time, until 2016; then there were three drops in brightness in the light output. Then in 2021, it absolutely exploded in brightness,” said Tzanidakis, who is currently pursuing his PhD in astronomy at the University of Washington. “The behaviour of these stars was strange. Normally they are stable. So we were asking ourselves, ‘What is happening?’” The answer to Tzanidakis’ question, as pieced together by comprehensive analysis of several telescope observations taken over years, along with a large amount of archived data from a variety of sources, ultimately leads to the conclusion that it is possible that two planets from that distant solar system may have collided with each other. The collision …

Jail for driver who overtook from lorry’s left, colliding with motorcycle in fatal accident

Jail for driver who overtook from lorry’s left, colliding with motorcycle in fatal accident

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: A driver who overtook a lorry from its left side in a contravention of the Highway Code hit a motorcycle in a fatal accident. Chua Eng Keong, a 59-year-old Singaporean, was sentenced on Monday (Jan 5) to 18 months’ jail and a driving ban of eight years. He pleaded guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention, causing death. The court heard that Chua was driving a car along Anak Bukit Flyover on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) at about 8am on Nov 20, 2023. He was on Lane 3 of the four-lane road, with a lorry on Lane 2 and a motorcycle on Lane 1. Lane 1 is the right-most lane on the expressway. To overtake the lorry, Chua accelerated and drove past it on its left, before filtering into Lane 2 without keeping a proper lookout. At about the same time, the motorcycle had changed lanes from Lane 1 to Lane 2 and was fully on Lane 2 when Chua’s car collided with it. The motorcyclist, 35-year-old Muhammad Dzulhilmi …