PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (WKRG) — The story of how the Lady Catherine II sailboat got to Pensacola Beach began May 30, hundreds of miles away. Michael Barlow and some friends traveled to Key West, to pick up the sailboat Barlow had just purchased, and as they were traveling back to Texas, they ran into some […]
Jun. 21—OLD LYME — Just as the company embarks on one of its most ambitious development plans ever, READCO Property Management LLC, a family-owned business run by Michael Lech with more than 2 million square feet of commercial space, has been bought out by multifamily home specialist and project partner Trio Properties LLC of Glastonbury. […]
After the successful launch of the first astronaut-crewed test flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner, new problems have been discovered, according to NASA. Three helium leaks developed as Starliner made its way to the International Space Station (ISS), according to a post on the social platform X from the agency’s Johnson Space Center late Wednesday. One of […]
Photo: flightlog / Wikimedia Commons A Beechcraft V35 crashed near Franklin, Tennessee on Wednesday, killing all three people onboard. This wasn’t the typical single-engine plane crash, as Initial findings indicate the aircraft broke apart in the sky, ABC News reports. A 911 caller reported hearing an explosion that is believed to be the crash, according […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — One of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel reported there was a fire on the airplane shortly before it crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, killing both people on board, a federal aviation official said Wednesday. The pilot had made radio contact about the in-fight emergency shortly after taking off […]
Millions of people across North America watched the total solar eclipse Monday, but I was one of the few in a lucky group to see it from the sky. It was certainly a different perspective. On the ground, the main event is, of course, seeing the moon fully obscure the sun. But from the sky, […]
BALTIMORE — Data capturing the moments before the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge has been secured by the National Transportation Safety Board and is being analyzed by the federal agency’s lab, officials confirmed Wednesday. Large ships are required by international regulations to carry voyage data recorders that, similar to the “black […]
Two Holland America Line crew members died on the line’s Nieuw Amsterdam ship on Friday. The deaths occurred following an “incident in an engineering space” around 9:20 a.m. while the ship was calling at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, according to a spokesperson for the line. “All of us at Holland America Line are […]
A 36-year-old man was shot with his own gun on a New York City subway Thursday as terrified riders took cover, screamed that there were babies onboard and begged for someone to open the train doors so they could get to safety. While Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Oren Yaniv on Friday said the shooting […]
A plane headed to Idaho crashed in a remote part of Oregon on Sunday night and left “no survivors,” authorities said. In a Facebook post, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, which is about an hour north of Bend, Oregon, said it received a report of a plane going down in a remote area about 5 […]
A pioneering private space capsule captured spectacular footage of its fiery homecoming last month. Varda Space‘s first-ever mission, called W-1, wrapped up on Feb. 21 with the successful recovery of the California’s startup’s off-Earth manufacturing capsule. That conical, 3-foot-wide (0.9 meters) capsule touched down softly under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range west […]
Two passengers who got into a fistfight on a Southwest Airlines flight Monday are facing criminal charges of up to $37,000, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The “disruptive” incident occurred onboard SW flight 1288, en route from Oakland to Lihue, Kauai, a Southwest Airlines spokesperson told USA TODAY. In a video of the incident, […]