category: news photos
From CNN.com:
The pilot of a twin-engine plane reported trouble shortly after takeoff and had decided to return to the airport, an official in Branson, Missouri, said. But the plane went down in a huge fireball near the center of the popular resort town, killing all four aboard the aircraft. Terry Ware, an employee of a plumbing company near the crash, said she hurried to the scene but could not get near the plane because of the intense fire. “You could hear the people screaming,” she said.
From CNN.com:
Another spate of grassland wildfires sprang up and spread across the southern Oklahoma prairie Wednesday, consuming numerous homes and forcing more than 500 people to evacuate, authorities said. Problems were compounded by 30 mph winds whipping across the prairie and 90-degree-plus temperatures. The blazes are spreading across the same region of the state where thousands of acres burned in December.
All this, with 90+ temperatures, and it’s still winter!
Stills from an amateur video showing a seaplane exploding in the air off the coast of Miami, Florida. Twenty people were killed. From CNN.com.
From CNN.com right now:
Much of the Northeast is under a winter storm warning with freezing rain, sleet and snow making roadways dangerous. A National Weather Service advisory warns that conditions “will make travel very hazardous or impossible.” In the Southeast, freezing rain in Georgia and the Carolinas snarled traffic Thursday and today. “Ice is our greatest nemesis, much worse than snow,” said a power company spokeswoman.
From CNN.com this morning: “A grain elevator is barely visible because of blizzard conditions in Warner, South Dakota.”
Pictures and text from a story this morning on CNN.com:
A Cypriot jet with “no sign of life” in the cockpit as it approached Athens, Greece, crashed today, killing 121 people, officials said. Reports say F-16 pilots escorting the jet after air traffic controllers lost contact with it said the pilot was not in the cockpit and the co-pilot was slumped over the controls. A passenger may have sent a text message to his cousin. “The pilot has turned blue,” reports quoted the message as saying. “Cousin farewell we’re freezing.”
“Although there are precedents for both pilots losing consciousness at the controls of aircraft in the past, for it to happen on a large airliner like a Boeing 737, with all the backup systems they have there, does seem to be really quite extraordinary,” said Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence.
“It really is all very peculiar at the moment, I rather suspect we’re heading for a very complicated investigation,” he said.
Terrorists have struck again, this time in downtown London. This particular picture that was just on cnn.com seems to capture the claustrophobic horror of what those poor people on one of the bombed subway trains must have gone through in the aftermath:
From Yahoo! News:
A boulder some 25 feet high blocks both lanes of the Topanga Caynon Road, Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, as electrical contractors fix broken power and communication lines in Malibu, Calif. No injures where reported, but the road remains closed. The storm system was blamed for at least nine deaths during the weekend in Southern California, including a man killed when his vehicle plunged into the surf off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, and a homeless man killed when the hillside where his tent was pitched gave way. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Hurricane Ivan has the last laugh at Uhaul Tool Rentals in Meridian, Miss. Courtesy SF Gate’s Day In Pictures.
Schoolkids romp around a small twister created by a bonfire at Tularosa High’s homecoming in Tularosa, New Mexico. Courtesy SF Gate’s Day In Pictures.
A car was crushed by an air conditioner blown off a roof by Hurricane Ivan in Pensacola, Florida. Courtesy CNN.com.
An advance-guard for Hurricane Charley, a waterspout drops out of the clouds over the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Sanibel Island. Courtesy SF Gate’s Day In Pictures.
Mute mammals being evacuated in the face of oncoming wildfire near Carson City, Nevada a few days ago.
A (carcinogenic?) San Jose, California disk drive factory, circa 1956.
From the LA Times — Firefighters work in the backyard of a home in Stevenson Ranch. (Anne Cusack / LAT / October 29, 2003):
