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UK and US paratroopers drop into Estonia under Steadfast Defender
12 May 2024 11:54 GMT
The British Army's Parachute Regiment have jumped into action in Estonia alongside US troops as part of Exercise Swift Response.
Nearly 100 members of the UK's 3rd Battalion and the US's 82nd Airborne Division were deployed as part of Nato' …
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Prime Minister warned over threat to smaller football clubs by 'watering down' the Football Governance Bill
12 May 2024 01:22 GMT
Rishi Sunak risks letting down Red Wall Tory MPs over … 'watering down' plans to save … First, the Bill specifically excludes parachute payments for clubs relegated from … clubs by 'watering down' the Football Governance Bill
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Who is Vesna Vulovic, flight attendant who survived 33,000-foot fall without parachute? Read her story
10 May 2024 12:25 GMT
… bomb explosion that brought down the aircraft over the … the crash even without a parachute.
ALSO READ: Dubai-Jamaica … high-altitude fall without a parachute. During the investigation, authorities … temporary paralysis from the waist down, Vesna defied the odds …
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Story Of A Flight Attendant Who Survived 33000 Ft Fall With No Parachute
10 May 2024 04:45 GMT
… the ground below, without a parachute. It remains the highest recorded … fall without a parachute in aviation history, a chilling … temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, Vesna Vulovic refused to succumb …
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UK drops aid into Gaza by parachute as UN says northern Gaza in 'full-blown famine'
09 May 2024 17:27 GMT
… total amount dropped in by parachute to more than 100 tonnes … coastline on pallets attached to parachutes by RAF and British Army … with Jordan allowing it to drop aid by air into Gaza … on 7 October.
It says drop zones are regularly surveyed by …
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WWII pilot from Idaho accounted for 80 years after plane was shot down
09 May 2024 15:44 GMT
2nd Lt. Allan W. Knepper took off from Tunisia in his P-38 "Lightning" jet as "one of many fighter waves" set to attack enemy Axis forces in Sicily, Italy on July 10, 1943.
During the attack, air forces were dispatched every 30 minutes …
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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
09 May 2024 08:33 GMT
… , when a suspected bomb brought down the plane among the mountains … highest recorded fall without a parachute in aviation history.
A team … temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she …
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Titans touch down at the Blythe Airport: U.S. Navy’s VRM-30 trains over the Palo Verde Valley
08 May 2024 08:45 GMT
… , medium lift, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tilt-rotor aircraft, which … .S. military branches’ aircraft and parachuters conducting training over the skies …
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USC security official faces calls to step down from LAPD oversight role
08 May 2024 02:02 GMT
In the continued fallout over the law enforcement response to Gaza war protests at USC, a vocal group of activists Tuesday demanded the removal of Los Angeles Police Commission President Erroll Southers, a senior security official at the university.
The …
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Fleet Week: Sailors drop in for surprise school visit in Miami-Dade
07 May 2024 16:49 GMT
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A special surprise awaited students as U.S. Navy sailors literally landed on the campus of Christopher Columbus High School Tuesday.
The appearance by the Navy’s Leap Frog parachuting team helped mark the start of Miami-Dade’s …