Pakistan plane crash

A Pakistan plane crash killed all on board. Regular life disrupted in Hyderabad following serious showers, Kashmir tense due to a separatist- sponsored strike. Even as David Cameron charms India with the right words, he lashed out at Pakistan saying that they should stop exporting terror anywhere. Arizona's new immigration law will come into force on Thursday.

Plane crash in Islamabad
Plane crash in Islamabad
A Pakistan helicopter picks dead bodies from the site of plane crash in Islamabad
Pakistan helicopter picks dead bodies

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NASCAR Jack Roush hurt in plane crash

NASCAR Jack Roush was hurt Tuesday evening in a private plane accident at an airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, according to organizer of an air show at the airport.
 Jack Roush
At the Video showed Roush and another passenger, recognized by the Experimental Aircraft Association as Brenda Strickland of Plymouth, Michigan, walking away from the crash, which occurred at 6:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. ET).

The Beechcraft Premier jet, register to Roush Fenway Racing LLC, was landing at Wittman area Airport in Oshkosh.

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department established the identities, the EAA said in a statement Tuesday night.

Both were transported to local hospitals, with the bloodied Roush in serious but stable condition and Strickland having non-life threatening injuries, according to the EAA. The NTSB (National Transportation Board) is leading the investigation into the accident.

Close-up Images of Jet Crash

Air-traffic manage strike in France disrupt air traffic

A strike by air-traffic controller affected flight Wednesday across France, resultant in cancellation of 10 percent of listed flights from Paris' main international airport, the civil aviation power DGAC said.

In addition to the cancellation at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, half of the flights from Orly, the nation second-largest airport, were canceled, the authority said.

 air trafficWould-be passengers were urged to contact their airlines previous to traveling to the airport.

Ireland's low-cost airline Ryanair called Wednesday for the French government to get the French military, "if necessary," to take over air traffic manage duty while civilian air traffic controller are on strike. "France, passengers and airlines cannot pay for these airport closure at a time when traffic and tourism is suffering," Ryanair said in a statement.

The timing coincides with the start of summer vacations for many French. One EasyJet passenger who was at Orly when she found out her flight had been canceled until Thursday bemoaned her situation. "In the middle of July, it's hard to find a place to stay," said Nawel Boubouka.

The strike started Tuesday evening and is listed to end Thursday at 6 a.m.
Controllers are striking over strategy to unify European air traffic control.
France is due to join Switzerland, Belgium, Germany the Netherlands and Luxembourg to form what is being called Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC).

FABEC is a cornerstone of the Single European Sky project, which advocates say will decrease fuel use and flight times by making it possible for planes to fly extra direct routes crosswise the continent.

The FABEC region covers 1,713,442 square km (661,560 sq miles) and is characterize by closely interlaced civil and military traffic routes, The majority of the large European airport and major civil and military airways are located in the FABEC area.

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International Airport at night time

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Abu dhabi international airport at nighttime

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Newark Liberty Airport at nightime

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Dulles international Airport at nighttime

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Hong Kong International Airport at nighttime

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LAX airport at nighttime

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Baltimore Washington International Airport at nighttime

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San Francisco Airport at nighttime

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Gatwick Airport at nighttime

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Kuching International Airport

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Barcelona International Airport

Cutbacks go LAX vulnerable to terrorist attack


Current security cutbacks contain left the Los Angeles International Airport weak to terrorist attacks, according to a letter from an airport police union calling for a restoration of the safety events.

The letter, released Tuesday, is from Marshall McClain, leader of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, to Los Angeles Airport Police Chief George Centeno. The letter says that because of cost-cutting reduction in training, the deployment of traffic control officers and security in the central terminal, the airport is "more susceptible to a terrorist attack than at any time since 9/11."

LAX AirportGina Marie Lindsey, the administrative director of Los Angeles World Airports who is also copied on the letter, said in a statement Tuesday that "there is no proof to support" McClain's allegations, note that the airport police budget "has greater than before annually since 9/11 and, from previous fiscal year to this year, it increased nearly $3.4 million."

Lindsey's report also emphasized the airport's security, noting that "LAX remains one of the safest airports in the world and one of the safest areas in Southern California due to LAWA's ongoing commitment to staff train and equip Airport Police."

Meanwhile, McClain's letter identify the 3 most likely attack scenarios as determined by a Rand Corporation study of airport security at LAX in 2004: a big truck bomb, a curbside car bomb and a luggage bomb.

The letter, dated June 8, also calls notice to the lack of permanent checkpoints at the airport's six entrances as optional by the Rand organization in 2006 "to decrease the risk of car-bomb attacks."

"Not only has the plan not advanced beyond the design phase, the random checking of vehicles entering the has been very much curtailed in current months," McClain writes.

Nancy Castles, a spokeswoman for LAX, told CNN Tuesday that the fixed checkpoints optional by Rand "weren't implementable," saying that because of the short road leading into the airport, traffic would be backlogged into the major thoroughfare nearby LAX.

Instead, Castles noted, the airport worked in conjunction with engineering students at the University of Southern California to expand a randomized checkpoint system that's determined by computer.

Inside Lax AirportThe programs determine the number and location of checkpoints on some given day based on the number of officers obtainable to man them, she said. "Randomization and unpredictability is a key factor in keeping the terrorists unbalanced so they can't size you up and attack you," Castles said. "It is so effective that airports across the US are adopting this technique."

McClain, for his part, points out that since 1974, the airport has been the place of 2 bombings, 2 attempted bombings and one gun attack. "There is no cause to believe LAX is no longer a good-looking aim," he writes in urging Centeno, Lindsey and other airport and city official to "review and reverse new decisions that have considerably reduced LAX's ability to deter an attack."

The letter too needs an "urgent meeting" with Centeno to talk about the security measures, however, as of Tuesday, no meeting had been listed, McClain told CNN -- an allegation Castles disputed.

The LAAPOA represent additional 450 airport police officers and fire workers, according to its website. LAX is the world's 7th busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, according to 2009 statistics from the Airports Council International.



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