Date: 11/18/2008 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana has suspended its search for a U.S.-registered plane with three people aboard that disappeared over dense Amazonian jungle two weeks ago. Transportation Minister Robeson Benn says government teams have unsuccessfully scoured mountainous forests…
UK court: No bail for cancer-hit Lockerbie bomber
Date: 11/14/2008 By BEN McCONVILLEAssociated Press Writer EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) _ A court refused Friday to release from prison a cancer-stricken Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The…
Trucker’s toxicology results admitted in Pa. crash
Date: 11/13/2008 BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) _ A judge says an expert witness may testify about toxicology test results on a truck driver involved in a fatal May 2007 accident in central Pennsylvania. Peter Carrara’s truck struck a car that changed…
US experts believe Mexico plane crash was accident
Date: 11/13/2008 By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ U.S. investigators have found no evidence of foul play in a mysterious plane crash that killed Mexico’s second-most powerful official, the American ambassador said Wednesday. U.S. National Transportation and…
Coal train derails in SE Iowa
Date: 11/11/2008 WEVER, Iowa (AP) — A coal train has derailed in southeast Iowa, blocking an intersection of a road and knocking out power to nearby homes. The Lee County sheriff’s office says the BNSF train derailed early Tuesday afternoon…
NC teen who studied crash deaths dies in wreck
Date: 11/10/2008 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ A North Carolina teenager who studied teen highway deaths as a senior high school project is dead after a crash. Eighteen-year-old Shannon Nicole Adkins graduated last spring after turning in a report about the…
FAA renews, toughens warning to Boeing 737 pilots
Date: 11/10/2008 By TIM KLASSAssociated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) _ The Federal Aviation Administration has toughened a requirement that Boeing 737 pilots be reminded not to ignore a cabin pressure warning horn, ordering preflight briefings as well as changes in…
US transfers Libyan money to Lockerbie victims
Date: 11/9/2008 By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press Writer SHANNON, Ireland (AP) _ The U.S. said Sunday it has begun transferring more than $500 million in Libyan compensation money to the families of American victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing…
Mexico rules out bomb, failed engine in jet crash
Date: 11/7/2008 By E. EDUARDO CASTILLOAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexican experts say they have ruled out a bomb or engine failure as the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior secretary. The probe into the…
Black boxes from Mexican plane crash sent to US
Date: 11/7/2008 By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Two flight recorders from a plane crash that killed Mexico’s No. 2 government official were sent to the U.S. for examination, officials said Thursday, amid widespread speculation — but…