Steve Fossett Plane Crash Cause Announced

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced a finding of probable cause in the plane crash accident that claimed the life of adventurer pilot Steve Fossett.

Read all about it on AeroSpaceNews.com - Steve Fossett Plane Crash.

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TWA Flight 800 Pictures

The sad anniversary of TWA Flight 800 is approaching on July 17. The tragic crash occurred in 1996 when an aging Boeing 747 literally exploded shortly after take-off from New York.

There is still much controversy surrounding the cause of the plane crash but no doubt that this picture is an unusual bit of history. We have a bunch of pictures of the plane that became TWA Flight 800 shortly before the crash and they are available as royalty free stock photography.

Verticals, horizontals, facing the camera, turning away, all taken at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as the aircraft approached to take off. The shots reveal an aging jumbo jet with wrinkles and missing paint.

View our album of TWA Flight 800 Pictures.

The high definition pictures are available for immediate digital download.

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Plane Crash Footage

Aerial photography and video shop AeronauticPictures.com has added a dedicated section to their Royalty Free Stock Footage collection for plane crash stock footage.

The new section includes the very famous accident at the El Toro Airshow on April 24, 1988, involving Marine Corps Colonel Jerry Cadick (CO of MAG 11). His plane struck the ground before a crowd estimated at over 300,000 people at the bottom of a loop.

The AeronauticPictures.com footage includes two camera angles and was shot on Betacam.

Curious? Check out the El Toro Air Show Plane Crash Video Footage.

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US Airways Hudson Crash Customers Dunked By AIG

The New York Times is reporting that passengers aboard US Airways Flight 1549, the Airbus that crashed in the Hudson River, are getting soaked again, so to speak, by the airline's insurance firm, AIG (American International Group). Yes, the same AIG that has been drinking from the teat of the American taxpayer.

Apparently hiding behind a contractual loophole (the absence of a finding of liability due to negligence), AIG has thus far, according to the Times, failed to do what is right. Instead they have been playing hardball with the folks who had already endured the trauma of a Hudson River water landing in a decidedly un-seaplane-like Airbus.

It should be noted that the airline itself, without legal obligation, immediately paid each passenger $5,000.00 for short term needs.

On the other hand, perhaps another yet tangential example of the "core values" behind AIG is illustrated by the trial underway of former Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenburg. He is accused of improperly taking some $4.3 billion. Just writing about those people makes me feel like I should take a shower.

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