[Breitbart] An airman was ejected recently from an F-15D Eagle flight before the aircraft took off from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts.
The incident involved an F-15 from the 104th Fighter Wing and video footage shows what appears to be the passenger moving on the ground after being ejected, the Air Force Times reported on Thursday.
The passenger was reportedly a recruiting officer. A recruiting officer who missed the briefing about the funny-looking handle?
The unplanned As contrasted with planned?
ejection occurred during what is called an incentive flight, which is a reward for service members. In the clip, the jet is seen making its way down the flight line after the mishap. With the PIC revising the weight and balance...
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[Regnum] More than 300 people have died in Pakistan due to heavy rains and floods. This was reported on August 16 by Reuters, citing a statement by local authorities.
"The current monsoon season has seen more rainfall than usual, washing away roads and buildings," the report said.
On August 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in connection with the tragic consequences of the flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, expressing sympathy to the relatives of the victims and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority as of August 15, heavy rains damaged nearly 30 houses, seven of which were completely destroyed. Transport infrastructure facilities were destroyed in many areas of the province, and base stations were also damaged, causing disruptions in mobile communications in the region.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
