Blog Heap o'Transport Links 17 May 2011
Blog-Heap links regarding transportation and related infrastructure,
also energy, because it takes energy to transport,
and virtuality, because telepresence saves on transpresence.
Transport Incident
cbsnews.com Tue 2011 May 17, 7:06pm
Thirty-four-year-old Reynel Alcaide of Burbank, Illinois, faces federal charges, including interfering with a flight crew, for the incident on May 8. Alcaide was on a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago when he allegedly tried to open the jet door. The flight was diverted to St. Louis.
msnbc.msn.com Tue 2011 May 17, 6:55am
SINGAPORE — Terrified passengers aboard a blazing jetliner prayed together before the plane made an emergency landing on Monday... landed back in Singapore "without incident" just before 2 a.m. It said the crew shut down the engine after receiving a "stall warning."..
Transport Tragedy
fox41.com Tue 2011 May 17, 6:45am
LOUISVILLE, Ky - One child is dead and more than 20 hurt after a school bus crash... bus swerved to miss a deer in the road, then overturned in a ditch... the 29 children aboard were returning from a field trip to Paducah...
Transport Safety
propublica.org Tue 2011 May 17, 6:47am
some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer... question why the TSA won't make the scanners available for independent testing by outside scientists....
Transport Disaster
independent.co.uk Tue 2011 May 17, 6:45am
France's BEA air crash investigation agency said yesterday it had managed to transfer all the information stored in the devices hauled from the seabed two weeks ago, almost two years after the Airbus A330 vanished.