Plane Crashes

I don't know if it's significant or not but the rash of plane crashes lately have been "shortly after take-off or coming into the airport for a landing"? Yesterday (Wed.), another emergency landing took place shortly after take off, when a window cracked on a Southwestern Airlines heading from Chicago to Newark.

As mentioned in recent logged Posts (*)

(*) 3 May, 2018 - 2 killed as Russian Su-30SM jet crashes off Syrian coast
2 killed as Russian Su-30SM jet crashes off Syrian coast

On Thursday morning, a Russian Su-30SM went down in the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Khmeimim Airbase.


(*) 02.05.2018 - Military Plane Crash in US State of Georgia Kills at least 2 - Reports (Photos)
Military Plane Crash in US State of Georgia Kills at Least 2 - Reports (PHOTOS)

A C-130 Hercules aircraft went down near Savannah Hilton Head International Airport soon after takeoff, according to media reports, citing authorities.


(*) April 20th, 2018 - UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal plane crash at Collegedale airport
UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal plane crash at Collegedale airport

Mr Swain said the plane with a single occupant was taking off when it crashed. (Note - Retired U.S. Marine.)


(*) 29.04.2018 - Military Plane Crashes in Libya Killing Three Crew Members - Reports
Military Plane Crashes in Libya Killing Three Crew Members - Reports

According to the media, the aircraft crashed during the take-off not far from one of the largest oil fields in the country, El Sharara, located south-west of Libyan capital Tripoli. After a collision with the ground, the vehicle exploded.


(*) April 11, 2018 - Social media influencers among 6 dead in TPC Scottsdale plane crash
Social media influencers among 6 dead in TPC Scottsdale plane crash

... the Piper PA-24 crashed Monday night shortly after takeoff from Scottsdale Airport.


(*) 11.04.2018 - Algerian Military Plane Crash Kills 257 People Aboard (Video)
Algerian Military Plane Crash Kills 257 People Aboard (VIDEO)

The incident reportedly occurred at 8:00 a.m. local time, when a transportation aircraft crashed near the airport the Algerian city of Blida, Boufarik province. The incident took place some 50 kilometers to the south of the country's capital after the plane — an Il-76 — left the Boufarik airbase, according to the Alg24 news website.

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May 2, 2018 - Southwest Flight 957 makes unplanned landing with broken window
Southwest Flight 957 makes unplanned landing with broken window - CNN

A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark, New Jersey, made an unplanned landing Wednesday after a window cracked, the Federal Aviation Administration and passengers said.
Flight 957 landed safely at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory said.


May 3, 2018 - Southwest plane with cracked window makes emergency landing
Southwest plane with cracked window makes emergency landing

CHICAGO -- A Southwest Airlines flight heading from Chicago to Newark was forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland on Wednesday, after a window apparently cracked on the plane, according to CBS Chicago. FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory told CNN that Southwest Flight 957 from Midway to Newark landed safely in Cleveland, after a report of an issue with a window aboard the aircraft.

Southwest Airlines said the crew decided to land in Cleveland "for maintenance review of one of the multiple layers of a window plane."

"The aircraft has been taken out of service for maintenance review, and our local Cleveland employees are working diligently to accommodate the 76 customers on a new aircraft to Newark," the airline said in a statement.

Several passengers have shared pictures of the broken window on Twitter.

Just last month, a Southwest jet apparently blew an engine and got hit by shrapnel, smashing a window. One passenger died and seven others were injured. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Robert Sumwalt said it was the first passenger fatality in a U.S. airline since 2009.
 
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April 11, 2018 - Social media influencers among 6 dead in TPC Scottsdale plane crash (Video)
Social media influencers among 6 dead in TPC Scottsdale plane crash

Investigators are working to determine whether a small airplane that crashed on a Scottsdale golf course, killing all six aboard, was equipped to carry that many people, including three whose identities were confirmed by The Arizona Republic, officials said Tuesday afternoon.
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VIDEO: New surveillance video shows plane before it crashed in Scottsdale
Updated: May 02, 2018 06:30 PM PDT
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Scottsdale Arizona Police released surveillance video Wednesday afternoon showing a fiery plane crash that killed six people on April 9th. Two of the people killed were from Las Vegas.

The pilot of the Piper PA-24 was flying five friends to Las Vegas when it crashed on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course shortly after takeoff.

The traffic cam video shows the plane appears in the upper right-hand frame at about :31 seconds. The plane sweeps over the top of the frame and makes an impact on the ground, you can see it in the upper left corner, at around: 44 seconds. Then there is an explosion at about :46 seconds. Anvato Universal Player
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Trump Did it.

CBS Evening News
Published on May 3, 2018
A deadly military plane crash this week in Savannah is part of an alarming surge in accidents involving military aircraft. An analysis of accident data obtained by the Military Times found a nearly 40 percent increase from 2013 to 2017.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

 
Costly ‘mishaps’ & non-combat deaths in US Air Force prompt day-long pause in operations
Published time: 8 May, 2018 23:05
A rise in accidents has prompted the US Air Force to stage a one-day safety review this month, American officials said. The analysis of aircraft and strategies comes after a military cargo plane fell out of the sky in Georgia.

Prior to May 21, the aerial branch of the US military will carry out a pause of its activities in order to hammer out problems that have reportedly plagued its operations over the course of the past year.

According to Major General John Rauch, the Air Force chief of safety, conditions don’t appear to be up to scratch, with a rise in “mishaps” and numerous fatalities.

READ MORE: USAF may be forced into massive reduction of planned F-35 fleet – report

“The rationale behind [the review] is an increase in recent ‘Class A’ mishaps for manned aircraft, as well as the fatality rates this years,” Rauch said in a press briefing on Tuesday, Military.com reported.

“It gives [units] the chance to identify issues that they can work and elevate up to the major command level and the air staff if necessary,” he added.

https://twitter.com/x/status/993874204121550848

A ‘Class A’ mishap, according to the US Department of Defense, is when an accident results in damage to government property in excess of $2 million, usually due to an aircraft being destroyed or a serviceman being severely injured.

More than 16 US Air Force members have died in non-combative aircraft incidents in 2018. Nine people onboard a Lockheed C-130 Hercules lost their lives on May 2 when it came down on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia.

While the cause of the crash has not yet been determined, video footage showed how the military cargo plane took a nosedive from the sky into the ground near a busy highway.

READ MORE: Military plane crashes in Savannah, Georgia, killing 9 (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

On Tuesday, the US Air Force top brass announced the day-long break to address safety concerns, with the service’s chief of staff warning they cannot afford to lose people or military hardware to such accidents.

https://twitter.com/x/status/991728772067069952

“I am directing this operational safety review to allow our commanders to assess and discuss the safety of our operations and to gather feedback from our Airmen who are doing the mission every day,” said US Air Force chief of staff General David Goldfein.

“We cannot afford to lose a single Airman or weapons system due to a mishap that could have been prevented,” he added.

“Our men and women have volunteered to give their last full measure for America’s security. My intent is to have commanders lead focused forums with their Airmen to help identify gaps and seams that exist or are developing, which could lead to future mishaps or unsafe conditions.”

Plane crash lands during training exercise in Vero Beach, no one injured
The plane, from Paris Air, Inc., carrying an instructor and a student Monday, May 7, 2018, crashed landed along the railroad tracks adjacent to U.S. 1 near 37th Street in Vero Beach. PATRICK DOVE/TCPALM
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Man in his 40s killed in Mayo aircraft crash
Fri 9:26 PM Co Mayo.
The aircraft crashed into a field and the pilot, who was the sole occupant of the aircraft, was fatally injured.

Virginia Plane Crash
May 07, 2018 - 2:09 pm
EASTVILLE, Va. (AP) —
State police say a man is being treated for injuries sustained when the small aircraft he was piloting crashed in Virginia.

A news release Monday from Virginia State Police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Anaya says the ultralight personal aircraft crashed in Northampton County just after 3 p.m. Sunday. It says the aircraft's engine cut off, causing it to drop, clipping a power line as it descended. It struck the ground in a field.

Anaya says the male pilot, 67-year-old Barry Y. Maggio, was being treated for injuries not considered life-threatening.
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02.05.2018 - Military Plane Crash in US State of Georgia Kills at least 2 - Reports (Photos)
Military Plane Crash in US State of Georgia Kills at Least 2 - Reports (PHOTOS)

A C-130 Hercules aircraft went down near Savanah Hilton Head International Airport soon after takeoff, according to media reports citing authorities.

Officials confirm C-130 Hercules military plane went down near Savannah, GA » https://t.co/KvVRRr6XEn pic.twitter.com/wwZCzbkcG3


05/02/2018 - C-130 Military Cargo Plane Crashes in Georgia (Photos)
C-130 Military Cargo Plane Crashes In Georgia | HuffPost
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15.05.2018 - Engine Failure caused US Air National Guard Plane Crash, Footage Shows (Video)
Engine Failure Caused US Air National Guard Plane Crash, Footage Shows (VIDEO)

A US military pilot experienced in flying the country’s C-130 transport planes say that based on surveillance camera footage of the C-130 that crashed in the US state of Georgia in early May, the cause of the lethal accident appears to be engine failure.

"It looked like a critical engine failure," said Dusty Cook in a Sunday interview with military.com. Cook piloted C-130s for more than a decade as a US Marine.

The video, captured on a nearby shop's security camera, seems to show "the number one engine" failing and causing the plane roll over. "It looks like it lost lift and it lost power on the left side, and that's why I'm assuming it was the number one engine," the veteran aviator noted.

On May 2, an Air National Guard C-130 Hercules crashed near Savannah, Georgia, killing all nine service members aboard the aircraft. The US military has initiated an investigation into the tragedy but a formal publication of the investigators' findings is not expected for several months.
 
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More of an incident: ...... :whistle:

Sichuan captain lands aircraft after co-pilot ‘sucked halfway’ out the windshield (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Edited time: 15 May, 2018 04:06 Video Tweets
Sichuan Airlines Airbus A319 was forced to perform an extreme emergency landing in China after one of the cockpit’s windshields shattered, nearly sucking the co-pilot out of the plane at 32,000 feet.
https://twitter.com/x/status/995990012247162882
Flight 3U8633 took off from Chongqing city at 6:26 am on Monday and has managed to climb to 9,800 meters (32,150 feet) when a windshield on the right side of the cockpit was suddenly blown off, forcing an emergency landing at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 7:42 am.

"There was no warning sign. Suddenly, the windshield just cracked and made a loud bang. The next thing I know, my co-pilot had been sucked halfway out of the window," Captain Liu Chuanjian was quoted as saying by the Chengdu Economic Daily.

The co-pilot and another crew member suffered minor injuries, considering the extent of the damage, China’s aviation authority said, without providing specifics on what might have caused the incident in the first place. The plane landed safely with all 119 passengers and nine crew members on board.
https://twitter.com/x/status/995874513546964992
While authorities continue to investigate the accident, Sichuan Airlines noted that the flight had experienced a “mechanical failure.” Prior to the emergency landing, Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633 was bound for the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.

Pictures of the plane posted by users of the Chinese social media platform Weibo showed damaged controls and the missing cockpit window. Footage recorded by the passengers also showed baggage falling from overhead lockers and oxygen masks popping out.

“Everything in the cockpit was floating in the air. Most of the equipment malfunctioned ... and I couldn’t hear the radio. The plane was shaking so hard I could not read the gauges,” the captain added, according to Reuters.

Monday's accident comes less than a month after a woman was killed in the Southwest Airline's plane engine explosion, which caused one of the passengers to be partially sucked out of the porthole. On May 3, anotther Southwest Airlines flight was forced to conduct an emergency landing after a cabin window pane cracked in mid-flight.
 
Cleveland Published on May 11, 2018
The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirms a Cessna crashed in a field in Orrville. The couple inside suffered minor injuries.
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Shocking footage shows the moment two plane collide with each other
Published on May 14, 2018

Pilot and 7-year-old boy killed in plane crash in County Offaly, Ireland
Sun 13 May 2018 23.59 BST Last modified on Mon 14 May 2018 00.03 BST

3 bodies recovered from remote plane crash site
Updated at 11:34PM, May 14, 2018 Video / 01:17
RANCHITA, Calif. --
Authorities recover the remains of three people from the wreckage of a plane that crashed and sparked a 12-acre brush fire on a remote slope near Volcan Mountain, sheriff's officials said.

Deputies discovered the bodies Sunday morning, but steep, treacherous terrain made it impossible to move the remains except by helicopter, and high winds prevented the sheriff's aircraft from reaching the remote canyon, San Diego County sheriff's Lt. Greg Rylaarsdam said.

The remains of the crash victims were removed from the mountain Monday around midday, a sheriff's official told FOX 5.

The treacherous terrain made the recovery extremely challenging. Rylaarsdam likened reaching it by foot as "hiking almost down the face of a cliff."

Making matters worse, the ground was still hot over the weekend from the fire that was apparently sparked by the crash, Rylaarsdam said. The ground was so hot, in fact, that firefighters warned sheriff's deputies Saturday that their ropes and boots would melt if they tried hiking to the aircraft wreckage.

On Sunday, still wary of using climbing ropes, Cal Fire crews laid down dry hose lines that deputies were able to use to climb down to the crash site, the lieutenant said. The impact of the crash resulted in a wreckage site consisting of a debris field, but not an intact plane.

The sheriff's department will turn the remains over to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office to officially identify them and notify their families. Officials assume, but have not yet confirmed, that the crashed plane was a 1979 twin-engine Beechcraft Duchess that was registered at El Cajon's Gillespie Field to the Scandanavian Aviation Academy. That plane was a four-seater.

That plane was due to land at Ramona Airport on Thursday night but never showed up. Instead, a Julian resident reported seeing a plane crash near Volcan Mountain around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Less than 30 minutes later, authorities got word of a small brush fire in the same area.

A contractor with the National Transportation Safety Board was at the crash site Monday morning, Rylaarsdam said. The NTSB is responsible for identifying the plane and investigating the crash. The sheriff's lieutenant said he hoped there were large enough pieces of the plane left intact for the contractor to positively identify the wreckage.

Officials believe the crash sparked the brush fire, dubbed the Volcan Fire. The blaze was 100 percent contained as of Monday morning, but Cal Fire San Diego crews expected to be at the scene at least until midweek mopping it up and monitoring for hot spots, spokesman Isaac Sanchez said.
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Southwest Jet Loses Some Cabin Pressure During Flight, Lands At Dallas Love Field
May 14, 2018

Published on May 8, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mETpdQmSx5Y
Just after 1 pm a fixed wing multi-engine general aviation plane (N99GN) crashed while landing at the Porter County Regional Airport in Valparaiso, IN. There were two passengers onboard the plane, one instructor and one student. They were both taken to the hospital, though they are reporting at least one passenger had a head injury. They were flying from Griffith, IN to Porter County Regional Airport.
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Daughter dies, father airlifted after AL plane crash
Monday, May 14th 2018, 2:09 am CED Video / 01:10
JACKSONVILLE, AL (WBRC) -
A woman died and a man was airlifted after a plane crashed in Jacksonville on Saturday.
The plane was found in a wooded area off Whites Gap Road and Scott Lane. The woman who died is the daughter of the pilot.

The woman has been identified as 27-year-old Stefanie Fasselin of Peachtree City, Georgia. Officials say she is the daughter of the pilot of the plane, who was transported to a Huntsville hospital for treatment. No word on his condition.

The FAA says the Beech BE-35 aircraft collided with a tree and caught fire around 8 p.m.

The NTSB investigator is on scene this afternoon examining the wrecking and documenting the scene. We're told there's no time table for the fact-gathering stage due to the wreck happening in a remote area. It could take 12-18 months for a final report, but we're told a preliminary report could be released by the end of this week or early next.
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Boeing 737 with over 100 on board crashes at Cuban airport
Published time: 18 May, 2018 17:21
A Boeing 737 has crashed after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana. The plane belongs to Cubana de Aviación and was reportedly carrying over 100 on board.

The plane reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff. It was bound for Holguin, a domestic flight of about one hour and 20 minutes.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who arrived at the scene, has said that there are "a high number of victims," reported AFP.

In a picture supposedly taken from inside the airport, a plume of black smoke can be seen rising from the end of a runway, as firefighters responded to the incident.

According to state media, the jet was leased by Cuba’s national airline, Cubana de Aviación, and flown by a foreign crew.
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Boeing 737 with over 100 on board crashes at Cuban airport
Published time: 18 May, 2018 17:21

A Boeing 737 has crashed after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana. The plane belongs to Cubana de Aviación and was reportedly carrying over 100 on board.

The plane reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff. It was bound for Holguin, a domestic flight of about one hour and 20 minutes.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who arrived at the scene, has said that there are "a high number of victims," reported AFP.
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I just read about this plane crash in the news, too. Thanks for Posting, C.a.

Did you notice - another plane crashing "just after take off"? I wonder, if there has been a change and lowering in wind current - like it's riding closer to the earth's surface? Just two days ago, here in Pennsylvania, we got hit with a rain storm that picked up speeds close to a Tornado, actually Central Pa. did report one. The storm started out as heavy wind, then large rain drops that turned into ice pellets, then back to heavy rain. But the wind was like someone had turned on a blasting machine. There are countless and wide area reports of trees being up-rooted and roofs of homes being torn off. Last February, our area suffered much of the same, along with heavy snow fall. Trees were knocked down - all over the place. Most of our National Recreations Parks and campgrounds in our area are closed due to storm damage in the last 2-3 months. The main problem in recent storms is the straight line winds with speeds as high as 75 - 100 miles per hour.

I wonder, do some of these planes get caught in straight line winds - taking off or coming in for a landing?

May 17, 2018 - Storm Damage at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Closes Paths, Campgrounds (Video)
Storm Damage at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Closes Paths, Campgrounds

Video taken by the park officials shows the strong wind brought in by Tuesday`s violent storm, which downed trees, poles and wires throughout the 60 miles of parkland. Finkle says even trails that were open had debris. Park officials say while this week's storm did leave a lot of damage it was actually two snow storms in early March that took a toll on some popular attractions. Park officials say some attractions will be closed for the rest of the year due to that winter storm.


May 17, 2018 - Storm Snaps Trees, Topples Tombstones at Glen Dyberry Cemetery (Video)
Storm Snaps Trees, Topples Tombstones at Glen Dyberry Cemetery

The National Weather Service says straight line winds with speeds as high as 100 miles per hour uprooted or snapped many trees at the privately-owned cemetery. The severe weather left a path of destruction, knocking down trees, blocking roads, and toppling tombstones. “There’s so much damage that wind could take down so many trees that were healthy trees.”

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May 16, 2018 - Wayne County Left Reeling from Tornado
Wayne County Left Reeling from Tornado

WAYMART, Pa. -- The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in Wayne County on Tuesday. A team from the National Weather Service started its investigation in Waymart Wednesday morning, checking out miles of destruction. Wertz showed us all the destruction from what the NWS preliminarily called an EF1 tornado with winds up to 110 miles per hour.
 
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From SOTT Fri, 16 Jul 2010
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Cooling Upper Atmosphere -- Sott.net
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NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."

The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009 - a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.

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Published on Mar 30, 2018
UNBELIEVABLE CROSSWIND LANDINGS during a STORM - ABORTED LANDINGS - GO AROUND !! BOEING vs AIRBUS
Session 23 August 2014
(Menrva) I wanted to ask about Ferguson, Missouri. We wanted to know if the events there were a marker?

A: Not a marker per se, it was an opportunity.

Q: (Perceval) It was an opportunity for people to wake up, see what's going on, and take action. But they didn't. It was a missed opportunity by the people.

(L) Yeah.

A: The killing will continue until even the "silent majority" find their voice. They were silent at the exposure of Ferguson and many previous incidents. But notice that the anger is still building and psychopaths always miscalculate.

Q: (Pierre) That's a message of hope. There will be a reaction eventually.

(Perceval) They'll miscalculate in that they'll allow the killing to continue, and they don't realize that there's a breaking point where there's a string of murders, just killing people gratuitously in the street, and that will trigger large percentage of people...

(Andromeda) Something will break...

(Perceval) And that's what they can't budget for because they're psychopaths. All of these shootings by cops are the result of the ponerization of America and the influx of psychopaths into society and into positions of power; more ordinary psychopaths, the only place they can get power is the police force; so, they flood the police forces because they're not smart enough to be politicians. Then they get guns and start shooting people. That's not part of their plan. I mean, I don't think they're trying to incite revolution by killing people. It's just a function of psychopaths in the police force doing what they do. It's going to be a war between them and ordinary people.

(Andromeda) It'll be like in V for Vendetta.

A: Psychopaths see these events as reasons to impose more controls, but that only results in more pressure and more anger which will reach a global tipping point.

Q: (Pierre) Doesn't it mean national or international revolt?

A: "Tipping points" can be other than human initiated actions.

Q: (Pierre) Cosmic reactions.

(L) Yeah.

(Perceval) Earth changes.

(Pierre) It would have been better that humans react. {Note: if humans don’t take care of their problems, the cosmos will.}

(Chu) But that makes sense like with dictatorships where people were oppressed and killed in front of other people, and still the people submitted. If it's not a cosmic type of reaction, people won't react now. They just don't have it in them.

(L) Yeah, I think the big key to what's going on here is the global nature of the repression, the killing, the suppression, you know?

(Perceval) It's linked because they say, okay, the effect of psychopaths can cause people to rise up and have a revolution. But other than that, it would be nature. It reminds me of that 2004 tsunami when they said...

(L) “If you can't create within, you create without”. When people's creativity is suppressed...

(Perceval) …it manifests externally. It was a wave of creativity that was being suppressed, and it was a wave that came in and destroyed everything, you know what I mean?

(L) Yeah.

(Pierre) There's a circle, or negative feedback loop described with the dynastic cycle {in “Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection}...

(L) That's a positive feedback loop of negative events.

(Pierre) Yeah, you're right. More earth events, more desperation, more control, more anger, and it keeps feeding itself.
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Great video's C.a.!

I have to admit, my heart skipped a couple beats - watching those planes - trying to land!

So, maybe some of these planes are hitting cross winds and down drafts - that send them in a downward spiral, with the pilots losing control?
 
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Boeing 737 with over 100 on board crashes at Cuban airport
Published time: 18 May, 2018 17:21

A Boeing 737 has crashed after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana. The plane belongs to Cubana de Aviación and was reportedly carrying over 100 on board.
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Four passengers, a man and three women, were said to survive the accident. The man died of his injuries soon after he was rescued from under the debris.

19.05.2018 - Airliner with 110 on Board Crashes near Havana (Photo - Video)
Airliner With 110 on Board Crashes Near Havana (PHOTO, VIDEO)

The Boeing 737-200 was leased by Cubana de Aviacion from the Mexico-based Aerolineas Damojh for a domestic flight to the eastern Cuban city of Holguin.

Mexico’s airline said there were 104 mostly Cuban passengers and six Mexican crew on board. Five passengers were foreigners. The Argentine Foreign Ministry said two of its nationals had died in the crash.

The 39-year-old jet came down in the early afternoon in a field just outside the international airport. Witnesses told the state Granma newspaper it had veered to one side before striking a power line.

The three women were taken to a Havana hospital with burns and fractures and are in a critical condition. They are reportedly in intensive care. Cuba TV initially said one of them died, but then withdrew the report.

A flight engineer on another Cubana airliner that took off from Havana airport 13 minutes before the crashed plane told Cubadebate a technical fault had mostly likely caused the accident.

Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro said he was following the incident and sent condolences to the victims’ families, according to the publication. Local media said he was still recovering from a recent hernia surgery.

Russia, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Bolivia, Canada, the United States and others offered Cuba their condolences, saying they stood in solidarity with those bereaved. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wished a speedy recovery to the survivors.


18.05.2018 - Putin Expresses Condolences to Cuban Leader over Boeing 737 Crash
Putin Expresses Condolences to Cuban Leader Over Boeing 737 Crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, over a deadly crash of a passenger jet in Havana airport, the Kremlin said in a statement Friday.


19.05.2018 - Lavrov to Visit Cuba May 22, Cuban Foreign Minister Announced
Lavrov to Visit Cuba May 22, Cuban Foreign Ministry Announced

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to pay an official visit to Cuba on May 22, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
 
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