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Quake Death Toll 21,000 And Climbing

by Don Mooney Memphis, TENN— More than 21,000 are feared dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday, according to officials. The quake centered in the town of Pazarcik in Turkey’s southeastern Kahramanmaras province and was followed by several powerful aftershocks. Thousands of buildings […]

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LeBron LeGreat!

by Don Mooney 2-8-2023 Memphis, TENN—A fadeaway jumper, not a skyhook ode to Abdul-Jabbar or one of his signature power dunks, with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter of a 133-130 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder that sent James to the top of the scoring mountain that Abdul-Jabbar stood above for […]

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Earthquake Devastates Turkey /Syria Border

Earthquake death toll At least 5,434 deaths have been reported in Turkey, while 1,832 people have died in Syria. The death toll is likely to keep rising. Yunus Sezer, who heads the AFAD agency, said an additional 15,384 people were injured in Turkey, while 6,217 buildings have collapsed. The two […]

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Catastrophe was narrowly avoided on Saturday, as a landing FedEx Boeing 767 nearly touched down on top of a departing Southwest Boeing 737 in Austin. According to the data, the planes were within a couple of hundred feet of one another.

I first posted about this on Sunday, but wanted to share an update, both as VASAviation has published a great simulation of what happened, and a veteran air traffic controller has chimed in with his take on the incident in the comments section. Terrifying runway incident at Austin Airport The […]

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Tyre Nichols Laid To Rest

by Don Mooney 2-1-2023 Also in support and attendance to the Nichols family were mothers, from across the country, whose sons publically died at the hands of police. The mother of Eric Garner, George Floyds family, Botham Jean’s sister and the mother of Breona Taylor. Major networks broadcast live coverage […]