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Small Single-Engine Airplane Hit by Train After Going Down on Tracks in Pacoima
Source: KNBC
A small single-engine airplane went down in Pacoima on Sunday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The plane went down on or near train tracks next to the Whiteman Airport around 2:09 p.m., the LAFD said.

The only person in the plane was the pilot, who was pulled from the plane by bystanders before fire officials arrived.

Those bystanders pulled the pilot from the plane just before an incoming train hit the wreck, which was on the tracks, according to the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Bureau.
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Biden Notes Benefit of Recently Passed Infrastructure Funding Bill After Visiting the Site of Collapsed Bridge in Pittsburgh
bySarah Kolinovsky,Alisa Wiersema,Libby Cathey, and Ben Gittleson
January 28, 2022

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-p ... d=82532407

Introduction:
(ABC News) Just hours ahead of President Joe Biden traveling to Pittsburgh to stress improvements needed for the nation's infrastructure, a bridge in the area collapsed on Friday morning, coincidentally providing Biden an opportunity to tout how his bipartisan infrastructure law provides funding for badly needed repairs.

Before his scheduled afternoon remarks at Carnegie Mellon University, Biden stopped by the collapsed bridge near Pittsburg's Frick's Park. Ten people were reported injured in the collapse, according to local authorities.

He said the collapsed bridge was a prime example of one of the thousands of bridges in need of repair across Pennsylvania -- bridges that would benefit from the billions of dollars in his infrastructure law, including $1.6 billion for Pennsylvania to repair bridges.

"It had been rated in poor condition for the past 10 years," Biden said in prepared remarks. "What you all know, if you don't you should know, there are another 3,300 bridges here in Pennsylvania, some of which are just as old, and just as decrepit -- decrepit condition as that bridge was, including here in Pittsburgh, the city of bridges."

"We've got to get it on with it," Biden added. "We got to move. The next time, we don't need headlines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapses."
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America's Bridges are Falling Apart Faster than Expected
by Jennifer Kingson
February 5, 2022

https://www.axios.com/americas-bridges- ... f2238.html

Introduction:
(Axios) Roughly a third of the nation's 620,000 bridges — 36% — need major repair work or replacement, a new report finds.

Why it matters: Deferred maintenance, climate change and heavier-than-anticipated traffic are causing bridges to wear out earlier than expected, and engineers say not enough is being done to keep drivers safe.

Driving the news: More than 43,500 U.S. bridges are in poor enough condition to be deemed "structurally deficient," according to the report by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).

Those bridges are crossed 167.5 million times a day.

Chunks of concrete fall from bridges with some regularity, and routine inspections often reveal problems that prompt authorities to shut down lanes of traffic or close off a bridge to heavy vehicles, to reduce the weight burden.
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At least nine dead in Texas bus collision involving student athletes
Source: BBC
At least nine people are dead after a vehicle carrying members of a New Mexico university's golf team collided with a pickup truck in Texas, the school said.

Nine passengers including the team's coach were on the bus involved in the fatal crash, the University of the Southwest said in a statement.

Two passengers from the bus are in critical condition.

A driver and passenger in the pickup were also both killed.
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"For unknown reasons, the Dodge pickup- drove into the northbound lane and struck the Ford passenger van head-on," Mr Blanco said. "Both vehicles caught fire and burned."

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China Eastern Airlines Boeing jet crashes in China, state media says
Source: Reuters

BEIJING, March 21 (Reuters) - A China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) aircraft with 133 people on board crashed in mountains in south China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, state media reported.

The jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft and the number of casualties was not immediately known, CCTV said. Rescue was on its way, it said.

There was no word on the cause of the crash of the plane, a 6-year-old 737-800 aircraft, according to Flightradar24.

The China Eastern flight from Kunming to Guangzhou departed at 1:11 p.m. (0511 GMT), FlightRadar24 data showed. The flight tracking ended at 2:22 p.m. (0622 GMT) an altitude of 3225 feet with a speed of 376 knots.
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Boston parking garage under construction partially collapses
Source: Associated Press

BOSTON — Several floors of a downtown Boston parking garage that was under construction collapsed Saturday evening, fire officials said. Officials did not immediately confirm whether there were any injuries.

The garage, located in the Haymarket area, came down after a crane on the top part of the structure collapsed on areas that were under construction, crews on scene told WCVB-TV.

The collapse caused multiple floors of the garage to fall, the television station reported.

Boston police officers, firefighters and emergency service personnel, and state police troopers all responded to assist.
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Snow Squall Leads to 50-Car Pileup on Pennsylvania Highway
Source: NY Times


By Neil Vigdor and Johnny Diaz
A blinding snow squall led to a fiery pileup on a Pennsylvania interstate on Monday morning that involved at least 50 vehicles, including several tractor-trailers, the authorities said.

The chain reaction happened around 10:36 a.m. on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County about 50 miles northeast of Harrisburg, Pa., where an early spring burst of wintry weather overwhelmed drivers in the northbound lanes.

About 20 people were taken to hospitals, John Blickley, a spokesman for the Schuylkill County Office of Emergency Management, said on Monday. He did not know of any fatalities and did not have information about the severity of the injuries.

“The road conditions when the squall came through contributed to the accident,” Mr. Blickley said.
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Philadelphia firefighter killed in building collapse; 5 other people rescued
Source: CNN

A Philadelphia firefighter has died Saturday morning in the collapse
of a building following a fire, a city fire official said.
Five others who were trapped -- four firefighters and a licensing and
inspections worker -- were rescued from the collapse, 1st Deputy Fire
Commissioner Craig Murphy said.


"So far, several were rescued and transported to hospitals," reads the
Philadelphia Fire Department's tweet, posted at 6:05 a.m. ET. The
department still was working to rescue others, it added.
The collapse at 300 W. Indiana St. in the city's Fairhill neighborhood
happened during a fire response, the department said. Details about a
fire, the collapse or what the building housed weren't immediately
available.
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At least 50 injured and multiple people killed when Amtrak train derails in Missouri

Source: CNN

(CNN) There are multiple fatalities and at least 50 people who were injured after an Amtrak train derailed Monday in Missouri, Eric McKenzie, the superintendent with Chariton County Ambulance Service, told CNN. Amtrak said in a statement the train collided with a dump truck at a public crossing near the city of Mendon at about 1:42 p.m. CT.

Eight cars and two locomotives left the track "after striking a truck that was obstructing a public crossing near Mendon, Missouri," company officials said in an updated statement. Amtrak had said earlier that there were approximately 243 passengers and 12 crew members onboard the train. Three people are being taken to University Hospital in Columbia, according to a hospital spokesperson. The conditions of the patients is unknown.

Robert Nightingale, a passenger with a sleeper car, said he was taking a nap when he heard something. "It all happened like slow motion. It started to rock and, and rock, and then flicker, and then it just all of a sudden -- all this dust was through my window," Nightingale, who is from Taos, New Mexico, told CNN. He said the train fell over on the side that his compartment was on.

Nightingale, who was not injured, said he couldn't get through the window, which was blocked by dirt, so he grabbed his backpack and climbed into the hallway. Then he moved into a neighboring room where he found a way to climb out and onto the side of the train.
He said some people helped others reach the ground where he and others walked to the front of the train. He said the truck looked like it had big boulders in it. "It hit something major to cause ... every car to go off," he said. Mendon is about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City. The train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/us/misso ... index.html
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