City dodges weather bullet From McKinney Courier Gazette Traveling on McKinney roads was better than expected Friday as temperatures remained near freezing, according to the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service said the ice expected to fall on McKinney on Thursday night and Friday morning didn't because the temperature was only 1 to 2 degrees away from the freezing point. Shoemaker said their weather radars look for masses of cold arctic air and warm air that mix together to form freezing precipitation. "We're looking for the...

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Crash victims' bodies to be moved From BBC News A couple killed in a helicopter crash at a golf resort near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, have been named by police. Paul Spencer, 43, and his wife Linda, 59, of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, died when their Gazelle crashed in woodland at Rudding Park on Saturday. Weather forecasters said there had been high winds in the area earlier, which had subsided by the time of the crash but conditions were still gusty. Insp Tad Nowakowski, from North Yorkshire Police, said it looked like the crash was an...

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Grounded by fear From CNN International (CNN) -- For those that suffer from a fear of flying, the British Airways Boeing 777 crash landing will not have been welcome news. But these ruminations should not concern those afraid of flying, says Captain Peter Hughes, an ex- British Airways pilot and founder of Aviatours, a fear of flying course run in conjunction with BA. To rebuild confidence, he says, is a matter of helping them accept that the aircraft landed safely, no one was hurt and that flying is much safer than any form of...

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Investigators in 777 crash looking at fuel systems From Seattle Times Investigators studying last week's crash landing of a British Airways Boeing 777 said Wednesday they are looking closely at the possibility that the accident was caused by an interruption in the flow of jet fuel to the engines. Both engines continued to produce thrust at an engine speed above flight idle, but less than the commanded thrust." Singling out fuel flow suggests investigators are zeroing in either on fuel contamination - perhaps from an external fuel source or maybe from some...

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Crash Survivor From Guernsey Press and Star A French Navy vessel is searching the waters between Alderney and Cherbourg, five nautical miles from Cherbourg where the eight-seater Beechcraft 58P crashed on route from Coventry to Lorient, southern Brittany, with a planned refuelling stop in Guernsey. A navy helicopter was scrambled, followed by a French Customs helicopter based in Le Havre, a navy public control boat from Cherbourg and a police patrol boat.

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