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October 13, 2008
Softball players enjoying a game near the Kissimmee Gateway Airport ended up rescuing the pilot of a small plane that crashed after clipping their goalpost. Players ran to pull the pilot from the plane's wreckage after it crashed into a field at the end of the airport runway, a few feet from where the rescuers were playing softball.
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October 12, 2008
Topics teenager, hands, southwest, teenagers, airlines, teeth, horse, photo, drunk, bad, airport, alcohol, face, girl, charges and man
Ezra Wallace, a 29-year-old man from Denver, says he was just "horse playing" around when he tied with tape a teenage girl seated beside him in a Southwest Airlines San Diego-to-Denver flight last August 1. Wallace admitted that he was drunk when he bound the teenager. He added that he "never harmed anybody or had any bad intentions. " He was also attempting to do the same with the teenager's younger sister, according to witnesses.
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October 6, 2008
A Briton, a Canadian and a New Zealander have made history by becoming the first three people to skydive above Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. A plane taking off from Shyangboche airport brought Neil Jone, Holly Budge and Wendy Smith to 29,500 feet, 2,500 feet above the 27,000-foot Everest. From there, they jumped in their thermal suit, oxygen tank and extra-thick parachutes landing back at the airport 12,350 feet below.
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October 6, 2008
A Briton, a Canadian and a New Zealander have made history by becoming the first three people to skydive above Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. A plane taking off from Shyangboche airport brought Neil Jone, Holly Budge and Wendy Smith to 29,500 feet, 2,500 feet above the 27,000-foot Everest. From there, they jumped in their thermal suit, oxygen tank and extra-thick parachutes landing back at the airport 12,350 feet below.
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September 22, 2008
Passengers were hauled out of the terminal of JetBlue airlines at the JFK International Airport here Monday morning after security staff detected two hand grenades inside a checked in luggage. The grenades discovered at 7:50 a. m. turned out to be paperweight replicas of a World War II grenade. Passengers were allowed back to Terminal 6 around 8:15 a. m.
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