A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot. The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of...
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Unsolved Crimes
Crash pilot who paused to pray is convicted
Josef Fritzl: the man who held his daughter captive for 24 years pleads guilty
Josef Fritzl: The 73-year-old Austrian engineer pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him, including negligent homicide and enslavement. he also admitted the responsibility for the death of one of the seven children he fathered with her. For the first time since his arrest last April, he also expressed regret for what he...
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Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend was ‘enabler
Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the “known addict” thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday. Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles...
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Norway Resumes Search for Roald Amundsen’s Plane That Vanished 81 Years Ago
Norway plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen’s plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal Norwegian Navy announced Monday. Amundsen disappeared aboard the French Latham 47 flying boat in the Barents Sea on June 18, 1928. The plane was searching for the gas-filled airship...
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