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  1. BBC: Outlook: The woman who fell from the sky and lived

    The woman who fell from the sky: the aircrash sole-survivor’s story.

    Juliane Koepcke was travelling on an internal flight over the Peruvian jungle when it was struck by lightning and disintegrated. She fell from over 10,000 feet into the rainforest and was the only survivor.

    Ms Koepcke found herself falling in open air, she came to still in her seat (which was attached to the intact row) after plunging more than two miles through the air, through the jungle canopy and to the jungle floor.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pkc3y

    —Huffduffed by adactio one year ago

  2. The Day A Bomber Hit The Empire State Building : NPR

    On July 28, 1945, residents of New York City were horrified when an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building, leaving 14 dead. Though the events of that day have largely faded from public memory, they remain etched in the minds of those who experienced them.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92987873

    —Huffduffed by adactio 2 years ago

  3. UK plc can afford more than twenty quid

    Police try to recruit Matilda ‘Tilly’ Gifford, a member of the direct action group Plane Stupid, as an informant: tape 2.

    —Huffduffed by adactio 4 years ago