A United Airlines flight from New York made an emergency landing on Sunday, with one passenger saying he smelled burning and saw someone carry a fire extinguisher to the cockpit.
Airlines spokesman Mike Trevino confirmed that a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Los Angeles was diverted to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Mr Trevino said the Boeing 757 landed at 9.36 pm on Sunday and all 105 passengers and seven crew members got off safely. Passenger Phil Lobel, who has a public relations business in Los Angeles, said that about 30 minutes into the flight he detected an electrical burning smell. He said flight attendants began going over emergency instr-uctions with passengers in the exit rows and someone brought up a fire extinguisher from the back of the plane to the cockpit.
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Aussie teen shot father dead, then watched TV
Sydney : An Australian teenager shot dead his father and then went back to watching TV for the rest of the night, a court here was told.
The teenager has pleaded guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to murdering his father at their home near Mudgee. The incident took place on April 23 two years back. “The offender stated that about 10.30 pm, he went to the cupboard and got the Hollis and Sons double barrel shotgun, loaded it and then lay down with the gun and continued to watch TV.
He stated that he started thinking about past incidents, where the victim had punished him physically,” AAP quoted the statement as saying. —IANS
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Qaeda group beheads Iraqi imam
Baghdad : A Sunni imam was beheaded by a group linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq, which then placed his head on an electric pole, security sources said on Monday.
Militants stormed the house of Abduallah Jassem Shakour in the area of Saadiya just east of the city of Baquba at dawn.
They attacked Shakour with knives in front of his family members, eventually beheading him and placing his head on an electric pole, Ahmed al-Zarkoushi, the director of the Saadiya area, told DPA. Shakour, who was believed to be at least 70-years-old, preached at the Saadiya mosque, frequently calling for national unity and forbidding work with Al Qaeda and other armed groups, Mr Al-Zarkoushi said. —DPA
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Rapists film brutal attack on 22-yr-old
London : Two men filmed each other as they took turns to brutally rape a 22-year-old woman in Britain.
The terrified victim was threatened that she would be set alight, the Sun reported on Monday.
The incident took place when she visited a friend in Sutton, Surrey.
The two men were already there and they punched and bullied her into submission. The victim was also forced to perform a sex act on herself.
The rapists filmed her on mobile phone cameras.
“It is hard to understand how anyone could behave in this way,” a police source was quoted as saying on Sunday. “They recorded it to worsen the victim’s suffering,” the source added.
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