Posts Tagged ‘the-sky’

VIDEO: Six-hundred metre tall waterspout spirals into sky

Monday, May 30th, 2011

A waterspout, spiralling hundreds of metres into the sky, has been filmed off the coast of New South Wales in Australia.

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2 die as planes collide over NY state

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Two small planes collided in the sky over a wooded area of New York state Monday afternoon, killing two people and critically injuring a third, authorities said.

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VIDEO: Russian plane in test-flight probe

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Russian aviation authorities have launched an investigation after amateur footage circulated showing a Tupolev aircraft belonging to the military veering through the sky near Moscow on a test flight.

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Magazine Preview: What Happened to Air France Flight 447?

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Two years after it fell out of the sky, the main part of the wreckage has been located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. But will the mystery of the crash ever be solved?

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Dozens of Geese Dying in Ohio

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Weren’t we past the mass animal deaths already? Dozens of Canadian geese along Lake Erie are dying of a mysterious ailment, and state wildlife experts are completely baffled. “They will fall out of the sky and have trouble staying upright,” said Ohio…

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Pipeline blast lights sky for 40 miles

Friday, February 11th, 2011

A pipeline explosion in eastern Ohio lit up the sky for 40 miles around but caused no injuries late Thursday, a government official said.

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Northern Lights captured on camera

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Photographer Eirik Evjen has managed to capture the Northern Lights phenomenon in Northern Norway, after he decided to place his camera on top of a mountain to shoot a time lapse of the sky on Friday.

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Northern Lights captured on camera

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Photographer Eirik Evjen has managed to capture the Northern Lights phenomenon in Northern Norway, after he decided to place his camera on top of a mountain to shoot a time lapse of the sky on Friday.

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More than 500 dead in Brazil flood

Friday, January 14th, 2011

It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state as flood water gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides instantly crushing cars and houses.

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Meteor Spooks Southern U.S.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Birds aren’t the only things dropping from the sky these days: A huge emerald fireball in the sky spooked people who saw it in the Southern U.S., with sightings reported from Oklahoma, to the Florida panhandle. It turns out that it was a meteor strike,…

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Blackbird Mystery Deepens: More Birds Fall From Sky in Louisiana

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Motorists stopped and gawked at hundreds of dead red-winged blackbirds on a highway in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., Monday, just days after residents of Beebe, Ark., saw more than 1,000 birds fall from the sky on New Year’s Eve. read more

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US mass bird plummet mystery ‘is solved’

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Scientists believe the shock caused by New Year’s Eve fireworks display may have caused thousands of birds to rain from the sky over an Arkansas town.

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Falling birds likely died from trauma

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

The thousands of birds that fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve in Arkansas likely died from massive trauma, according to a preliminary report released Monday.

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Cranks Resist Security at Airports – and in the Senate

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

To paraphrase that cult movie classic, “Eating Raoul,” frisk me, pat me down, make me write bad checks. If it keeps my flight from falling out of the sky, do what you must. Just don’t expect breakfast in the morning and a thank you note. read more

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Mysterious Missile Flies Off CA

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

A local CBS News helicopter camera caught a mysterious missile shoot across the sky off the coast of Southern California Monday night, about 35 miles out to sea north of Catalina Island. According to KCBS, the missile’s trail was visible from Los…

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