Hudson crash: A320’s engines lost power simultaneously
Initial flight-recorder information from the US Airways Airbus A320 which crashed into New York’s Hudson River shows that both engines lost power simultaneously,…
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Archive for 2009/01/18
Poland, Israel: “Using the Holocaust to Beat the Israelis”
The beatroot wrote on Jan. 8: “When protestors - who know little of either Gaza or Warsaw - shout slogans involving ‘holocaust', or ‘genocide' or ‘Warsaw ghetto' they degrade all those terms and memories, and put off one person - me - who would like to join them in condemning Israel and its stupid, bloody […]
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Accounts by Wojciech Tochman and Peter Lippman
Kirk Johnson of Americans for Bosnia writes about the newly-published English translation of a collection of Polish-language articles by journalist Wojciech Tochman (”Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia”): “I can only highly recommend that anyone interested in the human stories behind official statistics on refugee returns and the identification of discovered human […]
NTSB: A320 lost thrust in both engines, tried returning to LaGuardia
Investigators have disclosed that the crew of a US Airways Airbus A320, which crashed into New York’s Hudson River on 15 January, attempted to return to…
Poland: Nuclear Power?
Leopolis writes about the prospect of nuclear power in Poland.