Mohamed Youssef Mohamed
| Feb 26, 2013
Warning: Graphic Content. A video has been uploaded to YouTube which appears appears to show the fiery accident that killed 19 tourists above Luxor in Egypt. The hot air balloon they were traveling in caught fire while attempting to land. The pilo...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 26, 2013
The bodies of 19 tourists were tangled amid the wreckage of a hot air balloon that erupted in flames and plunged to the ground near Luxor in southern Egypt. It was the deadliest such crash in at least 20 years. All of the flights have been suspend...
Associated Press
| Jan 17, 2013
In a colossal setback for Boeing, the entire global fleet of 787 Dreamliners has been grounded after a series of safety incidents. European regulators decided to follow those in the US, Japan, and India and take the aircraft out of service until t...
Associated Press
| Jun 3, 2012
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and many others on the ground in the country's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.
— last Wednesday at 08:16 am
...the National Transportation Safety Committee said in a report released late on Tuesday. A rescue team swims beside the wreckage of a Lion Air pl...
— Aug 16, 2012 at 11:32 am
...the war on terror as "our own war and a just war too" -- not an American conflict as often portrayed. He said "no state can afford a parallel sy...
— yesterday at 01:10 pm
...rock-carved underground cities and early Christian churches. The owner of the hot-air balloon that went down said he was "shocked" by the traged...
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