Bob Collins
Eight people — the crew and several East Coast business executives — were killed when the jet tried to land, aborted the landing, and then crashed into a cornfield.
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Tag: Disasters
How many backup plans make a nuke plant safe?
DigitalGlobe, the satellite photography company, has provided about a dozen images on Flickr showing the devastation in Japan.
Saint Paul composer Raymond Berg describes the scene around Tokyo in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Like the rest of the world, we’re watching the situation with the Japanese nuclear power plant, which exploded overnight. It does not appear at this point that it was a nuclear reaction.
Kay Crothers, a News Cut reader and an ex-pat Minnesotan, dropped me an e-mail from her home in Crescent City, California a little after lunch today to report that the tsunami had reached her community, and at least one of the waves came in around 9 feet. Her community is just south of the border Read more →
Carl’s last letter
Some eyewitness video has now been posted to YouTube from today’s suicide bombing at a Moscow airport.
Kwame Dawes has been traveling to Haiti since the earthquake one year ago next Wednesday. He’s turned his findings into poetry.
One photo: A burial at Arlington
Scattered violence and protests in Haiti are curtailing some relief activities there, but so far it hasn’t appeared to slow the Minneapolis-based American Refuge Committee.