Seconds before crash, passengers knew they were too low
By Holly Yan and Greg Botelho, CNN
July 7, 2013 — Updated 0822 GMTAsiana Airlines Flight 214 was seconds away from landing when the passengers sensed something horribly amiss.
The plane was approaching San Francisco International Airport under a beautifully clear sky, but it was flying low. Dangerously low.
Benjamin Levy looked out the window from seat 30K and could see the water of the San Francisco Bay about 10 feet below.
“I don’t see any runway, I just see water,” Levy recalled.
Further back in the Boeing 777, Xu Das had the same realization.
The Boeing 777-200LR has been in service since March 2006The airline was voted Airline of the Year by Global Traveler in 2011
In 1993, Asiana Airlines Boeing 737 crashed killing 68 people
“Looking through window, it looked on level of the (sea)wall along the runway,” he posted on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.
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Jul 07 2013
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Jun 30 2013
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Thousands gather for rival rallies in Egypt
Pro- and anti-government protesters converge in Cairo on first anniversary of inauguration of Mohamed Morsi.
Gregg Carlstrom Last Modified: 30 Jun 2013 07:13
Egypt braced for mass protests on Sunday as pro- and anti-government protesters gathered in the capital on the first anniversary of the inauguration of country’s first democratically elected president.
Thousands of people opposed to President Mohamed Morsi have already gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square calling for him to resign, while the president’s supporters have vowed to defend his legitimacy to the end, leading to fears of confrontation.
Morsi supporters held their own rally outside a Cairo mosque on Friday, an effort to preempt Sunday’s demonstrations, and thousands of them are holding an open-ended sit-in.
The anti-Morsi protests are being organised by a grassroots campaign calling itself Tamarod, meaning “rebellion” or “insubordination”, which claims to have collected signatures from 22 million Egyptians demanding the president’s ouster.
Jun 23 2013
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It pays to use slave labour, says watchdog
Gangmasters Licensing Authority is dismayed at tiny fines levied on unscrupulous employers
EMILY DUGAN SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013
Sentences for criminal bosses who use forced labour are “unduly lenient” and do not deter modern slavery, the head of Britain’s worker exploitation watchdog believes.
Sentences for criminal bosses who use forced labour are “unduly lenient” and do not deter modern slavery, the head of Britain’s worker exploitation watchdog has told The Independent on Sunday.
The fines for agencies and farmers exploiting staff are so small that they are seen as a “hazard of the job” and not a deterrent, Paul Broadbent, chief executive of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority said in an interview.
Jun 16 2013
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World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria
US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict
ROBERT FISK SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013
Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.
For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama’s rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East.
Jun 09 2013
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Obama and Xi end ‘constructive’ summit
The BBC
US President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have ended a two-day summit described by a US official as “unique, positive and constructive”.
US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said Mr Obama had warned Mr Xi that cyber-crime could be an “inhibitor” in US-China relations.
He also said that both countries had agreed that North Korea had to denuclearise.
The talks in California also touched on economic and environmental issues.
The two leaders spent nearly six hours together on Friday and another three hours on Saturday morning at the sprawling Sunnylands retreat in California.
Jun 02 2013
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Syria conflict: Red Cross ‘alarmed’ over Qusair
2 June 2013 Last updated at 06:50 GMT
The BBC
The Red Cross has expressed alarm over the situation in the besieged Syrian town of Qusair, and has appealed for immediate access to deliver aid.
Thousands of civilians are believed to be trapped in the town, which lies close to the border with Lebanon.
The battle for control between pro-government forces and rebel fighters has made medical supplies, food and water scarce, the Red Cross says.
Russia has also reportedly blocked a UN “declaration of alarm” on Qusair.
May 26 2013
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Bangladeshi garment factory owners on defensive, fear losing ‘lifeline’
By Sohel Uddin and John Newland, NBC News
As many of the world’s largest clothing labels signed a pact earlier this month to try to bring safer working conditions to the Bangladeshi garment industry, factory owners in the country were on the defensive, saying they were already struggling to comply with the labor standards Western companies demand while keeping prices at a level they will tolerate.
“Look, we make a particular brand of polo shirt, which they pay us $15 to make and they sell for $150. We only make five percent on that by the time we pay the bank, the workers and compliance costs,” said Adnan Bhuiyan, who along with his father owns the major manufacturer MIB near Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.
His comments came in the wake of the Apr. 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza, a complex housing five garment factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, collapsed and killed more than 1,100 people. Six months ago, a fire killed 112 people at Tazreen Fashions, also in the city’s garment district.
May 19 2013
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Will China mediate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News
BEIJING – An official visit to Beijing by Israeli and Palestinian leaders last week has prompted speculation that China may finally be ready to claim its place as a world power by trying to negotiate an end to one of world’s most caustic conflicts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Chinese President Xi Jinping within days of each other in Beijing – the two Middle Eastern leaders having arrived in the country within hours of each other.
“China’s hosting of the two emphasized its active involvement in Mideast affairs and highlighted its role as a responsible power,” declared an editorial by China’s state news agency, Xinhua.
May 12 2013
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Sharif ‘set for Pakistan poll win’
12 May 2013 Last updated at 07:14 GMT
Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is celebrating with his supporters, amid early signs that his party will be the largest after parliamentary elections.
Media projections based on partial results suggest a big lead for Mr Sharif’s Muslim League, and he has already claimed victory.
The election should lead to the country’s first transition from one elected government to another.
The turnout was huge but the poll was marred by violence.
In Karachi, the Pakistan Taliban said they planted a bomb which killed 11 people and wounded 40 others.
May 05 2013
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Israel strikes Syrian military research center, US official says
By Robert Windrem, Jim Miklaszewski and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
Israeli jets bombed a military research facility north of Damascus early Sunday, a senior official told NBC News — the second Israeli attack on targets in Syria in recent days.
Heavy explosions shook the city, and video shot by activists showed a fireball rising into the sky after Sunday’s strikes, according to Reuters.
Syrian media also reported that the target was the Jamraya military research center, which Israel hit in January, Reuters said. The center is about 10 miles from the Lebanese border.
Reuters reported that a Western intelligence source said the operation hit Iranian-supplied missiles that were en route to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
Apr 28 2013
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Dhaka building collapse: Frantic effort to reach survivors
28 April 2013 Last updated at 07:42 GMT
Rescuers are frantically trying to save about nine people located in the wreckage of a collapsed factory complex in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
The BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan at the scene says it is a race against time before officials bring in heavy machinery.
He says the smell of decomposing bodies is making some rescuers ill.
More than 350 people have died since Wednesday’s disaster and hundreds more are missing.
On Sunday, two more people were pulled alive from the rubble of the eight-storey building in the suburb of Savar as the rescue operation entered its fifth day.
Apr 21 2013
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Boston bombs: Officials wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
21 April 2013 Last updated at 02:38 GMT
A top US interrogation group is waiting to question the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was arrested late on Friday when he was found seriously injured in a suburban backyard after a huge manhunt.
He is under armed guard in hospital. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the suspect was stable, but not yet able to communicate.
The teenager’s brother, Tamerlan, died after a shoot-out with police.
Three people were killed and more than 170 others injured by Monday’s twin bombing, close the finish line of the Boston Marathon.