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Indian Express
14-06-2025
- General
- Indian Express
Top 10 air crashes caught on camera: 9/11 shocker to Captain Sully facing geese attack
Ten plane crashes caught on camera: In the age of ubiquitous cameras, from dashcams to smartphones, some of the most harrowing moments in aviation history have been caught on video. Bystanders, passengers, or surveillance systems trying to capture something completely unrelated have ended up documenting these plane crashes with chilling clarity. From the global shock of 9/11 to the military jet collision, this article explores notable crashes caught on camera, detailing the events, who recorded them, and their lasting impact. During the 9/11 attacks, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, and one hit the Pentagon. News broadcasts, bystander videos, and a Pentagon security camera captured the impacts. Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, was not filmed. The attacks, orchestrated by al-Qaeda, remain the deadliest terrorist incident in history with a total of 2,996 people killed in a single day. Below is a video of the North Tower being hit, captured by Jules Naudet, a documentary filmmaker who was profiling New York's Fire Department. Known as the 'Miracle on the Hudson,' the plane struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, causing both engines to fail. Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles glided the plane to a safe water landing in the Hudson River. All 155 passengers and crew survived. The medical transport plane crashed into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, likely due to engine failure. Footage shows the plane descending rapidly, striking a home, and causing a fireball. The crash sparked a fire that damaged nearby properties, though the affected home was unoccupied. All 6 on board, including a pediatric patient and medical staff and 1 on the ground died. The plane overran the runway at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport in snowy conditions, crashing onto a highway. A car dashcam on the M3 highway recorded the aircraft breaking apart, with debris hitting the vehicle. All eight crew members were killed. A US Airforce plane crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, during an Arctic Thunder Air Show practice, killing all four crew video, released by the military, cuts off seconds before impact, showing the plane diving behind trees followed by black smoke. The cargo plane, departing from Puerto Carreño, Colombia, struggled during takeoff, hitting a fence and trees before crashing into a forest. Onlooker footage captured the plane barely clearing the runway and dipping out of sight. All six crew members survived, though the pilot was injured. The flight from Bangkok crash-landed at Muan International Airport at 9:03 a.m. after a reported bird strike and failed landing attempt. 179 people died, while 2 crew members survived. A midair collision over the Potomac River in Washington DC was recorded by surveillance cameras at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Clips showed the helicopter striking the jet, causing a fireball. All 64 on the jet and 3 on the helicopter were killed.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Donald Trump v. America
President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles isn't a distraction. It's a warning. In the decade he has been in the political spotlight, Trump has shown a desire to turn the U.S. into a police state, with him at the top. His signature policy priority is a mass deportation campaign led by armed federal officers. He rejects any opposition to his orders as illegitimate or illegal, routinely calling for political opponents and reporters to be jailed. And he previously wanted to order police and the military to shoot nonviolent protesters. In doing so, Trump casts himself as leading a domestic war against internal enemies. His backers have been explicit on this, like now-State Department official Michael Anton's description of Trump's 2016 campaign as akin to the passengers of Flight 93 storming the cockpit to stop al-Qaeda terrorists on 9/11 or Vice President JD Vance's call for a de-Ba'athification process like that the U.S. occupying force in Iraq performed after overthrowing Saddam Hussein. This story is part of HuffPost's commitment to fearlessly covering the Trump administration. You can support our work and . Trump's second term in office is rooted in this desire to wage war on the American people in an effort to bury the 20th century's liberal order. To do this, he quickly inaugurated a turn toward autocracy with attacks on every element of civil society, from law firms, nonprofits, universities, the press, the civil service, his critics and his political opponents in the Democratic Party. These attacks took the form of threats, extortion and investigations. Now, in Los Angeles, those threats are now being made from the end of a barrel. By deploying the military to repress the American people, he threatens to make protests of his policies effectively illegal. Protests are still ongoing, but now face the specter of orders from the president or the Secretary of Defense to suppress them with force. The situation on the ground, as local officials have repeatedly said, does not warrant this reaction. Instead, this effort, which operates under dubious legal and constitutional authority, aims to inflame the situation in order to scare the public, suppress criticism and show that any challenge to Trump's rule will be met with the threat, or reality, of violence. This is what Trump's post-constitutional moment looks like. The trigger for Trump's war on the American people is his mass deportation campaign, which aims to remove all 13 million-plus undocumented immigrants in the country as well as many legal immigrants and U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants. This is cast as a civilizational struggle against a 'migrant invasion,' akin to a military attack by a foreign state, led by 'foreign terrorist organizations,' that is 'poisoning the blood of our country.' 'We've been saying for years this is a fight to save civilization. Anyone with eyes can see that now,' White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media on Sunday. But if this is a war, who is the real opposing force? Despite repeatedly saying that he would only target hardened criminals for deportation, Trump has instead turned the federal government against both undocumented and legal immigrants, including workers, families, students and children, across the board. Any opposition to this, or effort to help those targeted, has also been met with repression. Trump's Department of Justice has already charged a mayor, a congresswoman and a judge with crimes related to immigration enforcement. In short, he has turned his agenda of war against Americans themselves. Just look at what has transpired in the past five months: ICE officers make warrantless arrests, often hiding their identities; international students have been detained and marked for deportation for their speech; U.S. citizen children have been deported with their undocumented parents; immigrants seeking legal status see their cases dismissed so they can be immediately arrested; temporary protected status for Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans has been stripped; and hundreds of immigrants have been sent to a concentration camp prison in El Salvador in violation of the law and the Constitution. This nationwide crackdown escalated ahead of the protests in Los Angeles after Miller, the architect of Trump's deportation campaign, reportedly upped deportation quotas for ICE and scolded officials there for only focusing on deporting criminals. 'What do you mean you're going after criminals?' Miller asked ICE leaders, according to the Washington Examiner. Instead, he demanded they raid Home Depots and 7-Elevens to round up undocumented immigrants seeking day labor. Miller pressed ICE officials to deport at least 3,000 people per day and threatened that those who do not meet quotas will be fired. This is what touched off the protests in Los Angeles. ICE officers targeted two Home Depots and other sites in military-style raids on June 6. 'They were just grabbing people,' one witness told The Washington Post. 'They don't ask questions. They didn't know if any of us were in any kind of immigration process.' Small protests followed that day and then grew on June 7 in response to the crackdown by ICE and police the night before and amid rumors of more ICE raids. Protesters gathered outside of ICE facilities in the county, leading to arrests, including that of David Huerta, the head of the Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union. Some protesters threw objects — rocks, bottles, concrete — at police officers and erected makeshift barricades on streets, and a self-driving car was set on fire. Despite Los Angeles Police stating that it had the situation under control, Trump issued a memorandum federalizing the California National Guard that night while Miller called the protests a 'violent insurrection.' Like many actions taken by Trump in his second term, that memorandum federalizes the guard on odd legal grounds through a novel and questionable use of existing law. It relies on a statute that has only ever been invoked in conjunction with the Insurrection Act, which allows the military to operate domestically under certain rare circumstances, in response to domestic disorder. It also marked the first time since 1965 that a president federalized troops in this manner over the opposition of a governor, when President Lyndon Johnson invoked it to protect the historic Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama. And the statute only authorizes the president to deploy National Guard troops, not the Marines, as Trump has done. National Guard troops are technically only authorized to protect federal property and functions when deployed under this law. That is much more restrained than what they could do under the Insurrection Act, which would enable the military to engage in domestic police functions. However, the administration, in its pursuit of repressing the protests, looks like it wants this statute to function as the Insurrection Act would without invoking the act. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on June 6 calling on him to direct the military to detain or arrest 'lawbreakers' even though the statute Trump invoked does not authorize the military to act as a domestic police force, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In doing so, Noem cast the need for this action as though the government were engaged in a war. 'We need … support to our law enforcement officers and agents … as they defend against invasive, violent, insurrectionist mobs that seek to protect invaders and military aged males belonging to identified foreign terrorist organizations, and who seek to prevent the deportation of criminal aliens,' Noem wrote. This language of domestic war is the essence of Trumpism and the signature policy of his second term. It views the end goal — purging of disfavored racial and cultural groups and ideas from society — as of such paramount necessity as to enable the means of vast law-breaking and violations of the Constitution. But the end and the means are one and the same. Trump and his aides want to end the liberal order that looked favorably on immigration, supported civil rights laws, aimed to create a more equal economy and sought to expand the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to those previously denied them. Mass deportation may be an end in itself, but it is also the means to crush the liberal order and impose an autocratic police state. Protest is the primary means to counter Trump's autocratic turn. And so Los Angeles has become a testing ground for his effort to use force to prevent opposition from spreading.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Town of Barre dedicates new 9/11 memorial ten years in the making
Veterans and civilians came together on Memorial Day to formally dedicate the town's latest war memorial. It's a powerful remembrance of the thousands of lives lost in the global war on terror. Dennis Fleming, along with many others, helped complete a mission ten years in the making. Fleming recalled the horrific events of 9/11. 'I was at the dentist's office over here and from the time I left my house and went to the dentist, the first plane had already hit and they're watching it on tv and I'm standing there and all of a sudden, a second plane hit and you know the rest of that is history," Fleming said. A history now etched in blocks of granite. 'I think for us, our generation, being the children of 'The Greatest Generation,' this is our Pearl Harbor,' Fleming said. As a marine, Barre's Police Chief James Sabourin was stationed in Hawaii on 9/11. 'I can remember a lot of confusion and then we deployed shortly thereafter,' he said. 'So I am a veteran of the global war on terror. It's a little surreal looking at a memorial like that come together.' Sabourin says the memorial fills his heart with pride and it makes him proud of the town. To help fund the project, a favorite brick program was established and donations were accepted. Carved into the statues are the times the towers were hit. Behind the towers are subway rails recovered from the lower level of the World Trade Center complex. To the left is the Pennsylvania monument for the lives lost in Shanksville on United Airlines Flight 93, along with the last words spoken by passengers and crew, 'let's roll.' Finally, the memorial pays tribute to the lives lost in the Pentagon crash. Barre native William O'Donnell, a Navy veteran, was in the Pentagon on 9/11. When he heard about the tribute, he offered up a piece of the Pentagon which is now housed at the memorial in Barre. 'I think it's something the entire town and area can be proud of,' O'Donnell said. 'And they did it out of the goodness of their hearts.' Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Travel Weekly
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Travel Weekly
Proposed budget cuts threaten National Park Service and tourism economy
Over $1 billion in federal funding for the National Park Service (NPS) could be slashed in the proposed 2026 federal budget, in what would be the largest funding cut in the agency's history. Advocates say tourism in and around the 433 parks and sites in the NPS system will suffer, along with the tour operators that offer national park itineraries. The proposed budget would cut almost a third from the $3.1 billion the NPS has for fiscal year 2025. It would remove $900 million from NPS operations alone, much of it targeting sites that the budget request submitted May 2 described as not being parks "in the traditionally understood sense," suggesting that some smaller sites would be "better categorized and managed as state-level parks." Advocates sounded the alarm. "We worry [about] places like Flight 93, presidential birthplaces, Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields and places that preserve and teach Americans about some of the more difficult chapters of history, like Minidoka, the Japanese internment camp," said John Garder, a senior director for the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. He said the NPS creates "significant economic value," with $21 in visitor spending for every $1 Congress invests. Garder said "countless" local economies depend on park tourism from visitors spending money in "hotels, restaurants, gas stations, souvenir stores" nearby and along the way. According to the NPS, the 2023 economic output for economies around the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville, Ky., was $23.4 million. The Blue Ridge Parkway generated $1.8 billion along the 469-mile Appalachian Mountains drive from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. The Department of the Interior already terminated 1,000 full-time NPS employees earlier this year, and Garder said its workforce has been reduced by 13% since January. National Tour Association (NTA) president Catherine Prather said putting national parks "on the chopping block" will only further diminish the tourism economy, not only for gateway communities but for tour operators: More than 75% of NTA members operate tours in national parks. Caleb Lawson, vice president of Sunrise Tours, which offers national parks itineraries, said the company has fielded calls from clients about the impact of NPS budget and staffing cuts. Despite the concern, he said, the tours continue to "have very strong reservation numbers." "I'm not sure what to attribute that to, other than that we are all in a wait-and-see situation in so many ways right now," Lawson said, citing everything from park funding to tariffs. Tauck is "cautiously optimistic about the upcoming season," a spokesperson said, adding that one product manager was recently in Yellowstone and had visited Bryce and Zion during spring break and saw no long lines or anything amiss. "While it's still early, we've been running some of our national parks tours [for] the past several weeks now without experiencing any real issues at all," the spokesperson said. Xanterra Travel Collection, which handles concessions and lodging in several national parks, is also the parent company of tour operators Country Walkers and VBT Bicycling Vacations, which offer park tours. Both operators have more guests booked for 2025 than they did for last year. Todd Walton, director of marketing and sales for Xanterra's Yellowstone offerings, said the company's Yellowstone National Park Lodges have seen few cancellations this year. Guests typically book six months to one year in advance, he said, but the company is now noticing a 60- to 90-day window for bookings. Like Lawson, he attributes this to a "wait-and-see" mentality from guests. Walton said that NPS superintendents recently shared at a meeting that Yellowstone and Grand Teton are both fully staffed for the season and that "NPS is doing a fantastic job making sure people have a great experience." But Garder said the impact of cuts are not just what's visible to visitors. "What's critical for people to understand is that it's not just the things they notice, like trash cans and bathrooms and visitor centers, but the work that's being done to protect those resources," he said -- for example, the monitoring of invasive species. "People may not see it, but there's damage." Intrepid Travel's president of the Americas, Leigh Barnes, said he hopes the proposed and previous NPS budget cuts will serve as a "rallying cry" that pushes consumers and other brands to take action in support of the NPS. Intrepid expects impacts to maintenance and scheduling to be visible on its tours but is also waiting to see what happens. The company is hoping to inspire more travel to the U.S. and its parks with a 20% discount on U.S. tours, including to 18 national parks.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Pennsylvania Turnpike expecting 2 million+ drivers for Memorial Day weekend
(WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Turnpike is expecting more than two million drivers to hit the highway for Memorial Day weekend. Turnpike officials project that, from May 23-26, approximately 2,190,000 motorists will travel on the Turnpike. This is nearly a 3% increase from last year's holiday weekend. The busiest day is expected to be Friday, with more than 700,000 motorists projected on the turnpike. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Maintenance and construction on the turnpike will be suspended starting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, until 11 p.m. on Monday, May 26. Those heading westbound in the Somerset (Exit 110) to New Stanton (Exit 75) corridor Sunday, May 25 are being warned that traffic could be slower from 3 to 5 p.m. as the Run for the Wall veteran's organization is hosting their annual 300+ unit motorcade that travels from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Flight 93 National Memorial, Somerset County. Riders will travel west from the Somerset Interchange starting at approximately 3:15 p.m. Sunday. The motorcade is planning a fueling stop at the New Stanton Service Plaza (MP 77.6) around 4 p.m. before exiting at New Stanton around 5 p.m. and continuing onto Interstate 70 toward their final destination at the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial in Illinois. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
