A plane has crashed at the Reno Air Races, a spokeswoman for the event said. Emergency crews are responding to the crash at the National Championship Air Races.
Witnesses tell local reporters that planes in the race were ascending when a P51 Mustang began to nose dive and then crashed near a spectator stand. Air race spokesman describes crash near the grandstand as "mass casualty situation."
Local TV station KOLO is reporting as many as 12 people killed and 30 others injured. Airport personnel and military immediately evacuated thousands of spectators.
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Gromky, is that a photo of the empennage of the plane in question? If so, that is one seriously effed-up elevator and would perfectly explain the pilot's loss of control.
B-17, G-TBM (VFR ONLY).
ALL MAKES AND MODELS OF SINGLE AND MULTI ENGINE PISTON POWERED AUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT. (This is the big one. If the FAA gives you this type rating, to fly ANYTHING that has one or two piston engines, you are in a very elite class of pilot. Very few pilots get this rating. There might be more guys playing quarterback in the NFL than pilots that have this rating.)
AUTHORIZED EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT: AV-L39 BF-109 BL-P63 CHV-F4U CU-P40 G-F3F G-F4F G-F6F G-F8F HE-111 L-P38 MIG-15 MIG-17 N-P51 N-P64 R-P47 SPITFIR WSK-TS11 YAK-3.
TOKYO A strong 6.6-magnitude undersea quake and a series of aftershocks hit off the coast of Japans Honshu island Saturday, not far from the area ravaged by a huge March quake and tsunami, geologists said. mThere were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no widespread tsunami warning, although the initial earthquake was followed by five more quakes of magnitude five or above, one of them measuring 6.2.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the first, 36.2-kilometre (22.6-mile) deep quake hit 108 kilometres east-south-east of the coastal town of Hachinohe, 574 kilometres from Tokyo, at 4:26 am (1926 GMT Friday).
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that no destructive widespread tsunami risk exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.
But it said that quakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis. Authorities in the region of the epicentre should be aware of this, the centre said in a statement.
It said the initial quake jolted Iwate prefecture, an area badly hit by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that left almost 20,000 dead or missing and sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. The 6.6-magnitude quake was followed by two smaller magnitude-five tremors within an hour in the same area east of Hachinohe.
The fourth quake struck at 7:08 am (2108 GMT Friday), with a magnitude of 6.2 at a depth of 20.2 kilometres, 137 kilometres east-south-east of Hachinohe. Again, no widespread tsunami warning was issued.
During the next two hours there were two more magnitude-five tremors nearby, the second one with its epicentre only five kilometres deep, the USGS said.
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Prolly due to recent CMES - lots of skyballs + mini/micro-tectonic motions around Agana + oer Guam-WESTPAC.
Ditto as per lots of ghosts or spirits - not too many so-called "White-lighters" being active, mostly Darkies.
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Procopius2k, the US is a modern country. That is, we use the Fed Funds wire to transfer our quantitatively eased currency from place to place.
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That wasn't about currency transfers, it was about what we'll have to carry after all those transfers go down the hole dragging everyone's economies with them.
European divisiveness? Who knew? Financial tranaction tax surfaces once again. Few people know more about infighting than an Obama administration figure...
[Dawn] A dreaded criminal wanted for patronising kidnappings for ransom and drug trafficking was nabbed by the capital police in a raid on a kiosk in the rural area on Thursday.
Commander Syeed Wali was traced out by the signals of a cellphone that he had snatched from a kidnapped boy, handed to him for safe custody while the kidnappers collected ransom and shared it with Wali.
According to the sources, Commander Syeed Wali headed a five-member group of abductors and allegedly involved in a number of kidnapping for ransom incidents. The sources said that he also provided hideouts to the kidnapping groups including the forces of Evil to keep their preys till they received the ransom. He has several houses in Dara Adam Khail and Adezai where he kept the victims either kidnapped by his group or others.
He took share from the ransom for keeping the kidnapped victims of other gangs.
Moreover, he also operated narcotics smuggling gang and smuggled drugs to Islamabad and Punjab.Commander Syeed Wali was spotted by the Shalimar police officials as he had been using the mobile phone of Ali Waqar whom he kept at one of his hideouts for some days. Ali Waqar was taken to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar by the security guard of the consultancy firm of his father, Waqar Zakari, on April 16. Security guard, Siraj Khan, had made him drug addict and was taken to Peshawar by him and two of his accomplices on the pretext that he would be given charas there. Later, Ali Waqar was handed over to Syeed Wali who kept him at his hideout.
On April 29, the abductors of Ali Waqar were traced and during encounter with the police, one of them was killed while two others were nabbed. Despite several attempts, the kidnappers could not identify the location where the kidnapped person was kept.
Later, Ali Waqar was released as Rs6 million ransom was paid. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Syeed Wali seized his mobile and started using it.
Since he was under surveillance of the capital police through the snatched mobile phone, he was located in E-11 area on Thursday evening.
A police team under the supervision of Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Margalla circle ASP Capt (retired) Mustansar Hussain conducted a raid at a kiosk in E-11 and nabbed Syeed Wali. The raid was guided by Inspector Raja Rahat, specialist in tracking people through mobile phones. The raiding team also recovered the mobile phone which he took from Ali Waqar.
Syeed Wali will be produced in the court to seek physical remand for further investigation.
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[Dawn] In its decision on the Cotecna reference case, an accountability court on Friday acquitted the only person placed in durance vile in the case, DawnNews reported.
The court released the former Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman A. R. Siddiqui due to insufficient evidence.
The witnesses are all dead and the evidence locker was burgled.
The court also decided that no action could be taken against President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... due to presidential immunity.
In the Cotecna case, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari were accused of taking six per cent of the total pre-shipment revenue for awarding the $131m contract.
Benazir Bhutto's name was removed from the case after her liquidation in December 27, 2007.
Begum Nusrat Bhutto, also linked to the case, has been unable to partake in the proceedings due to her illness.
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Danger Will Robinson! The Swedes are upset. Nasa has informed them that the 6.5 ton satellite is coming home in their general area. Hold Please.
"A 20-year-old satellite that has fallen out of orbit is expected to plunge back to Earth sometime next week and its projected landfall could strike Sweden, according to NASA experts".
WHEN former Marine Sg. Dakota Meyer joined President Barack Obama for a beer on the White House patio this week, the Medal of Honor recipient was treated to a homemade brew, a White House food blog said today.
Obama Foodorama, a blog that describes itself as "The Blog of Record About White House Food Initiatives," said the beer is known as White House Honey Blonde Ale and is made with equipment purchased out of the Obama's own pocket, according to a spokeswoman for First Lady Michelle Obama.
The President and Mrs Obama first served about 80 bottles of White House brew to guests attending a Super Bowl party earlier this year.
The honey ale's signature ingredient is a pound of honey harvested from the White House beehive, according to the blog. The First Family's chefs have also brewed up a honey porter.
White House curator Bill Allman said the Obamas are the first to make a brew at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
"We have no record of beer brewing at the White House," Mr Allman told Obama Foodorama, although the blog does say George Washington was known to brew his own in pre-White House days at Mount Vernon.
"Twist their neck! Hit them on the head! Throw them in a ditch and they'll be dead!"
Tusker, brewed by the Kenya Breweries Limited, is the most popular beer in Kenya. Popularly known as "Keroro" beer, Tusker is a source of Kenyan pride highlighted in the late 1990s, where East African Breweries played the patriotic card to win a marketing war against Castle Breweries, a subsidiary of international brewing giant SABMiller.
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"No-one should be put to death based on the colour of his or her skin," Kate Black, one of Buck's attorneys said after the decision.
Ummm no. He's being put to death because he's a cockroach with no human feelings who killed at least two other people. Put this POS down
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The death penalty is carried out daily in our streets, our neighborhoods, our businesses upon innocents without the joys of due process. We lock our windows and doors at night, we avoid traveling to or through certain neighborhoods of our cities, and we worry when the sun goes down where our children are because the threat of the death penalty does alter our behavior. All we've done is shift where that penalty is carried out, but it is carried out.
"This week, Houstonian Duane Buck is scheduled for execution, partly based on testimony by Conroe psychologist Dr. Walter Quijano. Ironically, Quijano was called to the witness stand by defense attorneys for Buck."
So, the defense can call a witness that can so prejudice a sentencing hearing, that their client can get a stay on his execution?
Very crafty. Had the defense lawyers pulled such a scheme themselves, it would have been attorney misconduct. But because it was done by their "hired gun" psychologist, who *cannot* be charged with misconduct, if he can prove what he said, which he can, their client "wins" a stay.
This would be a flawless scheme, if he waited until cross examination to make the prejudicial statement.
It gets worse:
"Quijano gave similar testimony in six other cases, which, along with Buck's, were all red-flagged in 2000 by then-Attorney General John Cornyn. Rather than defend the cases on appeal, an appalled Cornyn conceded error, clearing the way for new trials for six of the seven."
So the prosecution knew that this psychologist had bollixed up SIX other death penalty cases that were retried, but did not retry Buck's case, saying that it was an inconsequential error.
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.
[Dawn] A dreaded criminal wanted for patronising kidnappings for ransom and drug trafficking was 
Asif Ali 
