MOSCOW — A Soviet-made airliner caught fire on Saturday at an airport in Siberia, leaving at least three people dead, three missing and 34 hospitalized with burns, carbon monoxide poisoning and other injuries, officials said. The crew and the passengers were able to evacuate the plane before it exploded in an enormous fireball. Vadim V. Grebennikov, a spokesman for the region’s emergency service, said a fuel tank blew up, spilling flaming fuel. Investigators have opened a criminal case into violations of air safety rules. The plane was a Tupolev Tu-154, a three-engine model that was the mainstay of Soviet aviation. Russia halted mass production of the jet about 20 years ago, and…
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MOSCOW — A Soviet-made airliner caught fire on Saturday at an airport in Siberia, leaving at least three people dead, three missing and 34 hospitalized with burns, carbon monoxide poisoning and other injuries, officials said. The crew and the passengers were able to evacuate the plane before it exploded in an enormous fireball. Vadim V. Grebennikov, a spokesman for the region’s emergency service, said a fuel tank blew up, spilling flaming fuel. Investigators have opened a criminal case into violations of air safety rules. The plane was a Tupolev Tu-154, a three-engine model that was the mainstay of Soviet aviation. Russia halted mass production of the jet about 20 years ago, and…
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MOSCOW — A Soviet-made airliner caught fire on Saturday at an airport in Siberia, leaving at least three people dead, three missing and 34 hospitalized with burns, carbon monoxide poisoning and other injuries, officials said. The crew and the passengers were able to evacuate the plane before it exploded in an enormous fireball. Vadim V. Grebennikov, a spokesman for the region’s emergency service, said a fuel tank blew up, spilling flaming fuel. Investigators have opened a criminal case into violations of air safety rules. The plane was a Tupolev Tu-154, a three-engine model that was the mainstay of Soviet aviation. Russia halted mass production of the jet about 20 years ago, and…
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Across Europe thousands braved cold temperatures and waters to bring in the New Year with a splash. (Jan. 1)
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Mild tremor felt in Beit She’an, Afula, Tiberias and nearby communities at around 6:30 pm; no injuries
Continue reading …The gang at JibJab presents Obama/Biden puppets to say goodbye to 2010. Open thread below…
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Windows XP partially re-created in LittleBigPlanet 2, ups the stakes for gamer ambitiousness (video)
January 1, 2011 No Comment
We’ve seen an CHIP-8 emulator and even a virtual CPU built inside games, but we’ve yet to encounter a game recreation of Windows. Thanks to a quartet of industrious LittleBigPlanet 2 beta players, though, we can now finally check that off in our copy of 100 Geeky Projects You Must Witness Before Dying . As the video above shows, major Windows functions they’ve emulated to date include a working start menu and mouse cursor, multiplayer support for a variety of bloatware games, and even the good ole’ blue screen of death. That’s pretty impressive stuff from an ambitious platforming title that won’t officially ship until mid-January. Needless to say, once the full version arrives, we expect to see a working copy of Lion running stat. You heard us folks — we’re setting the bar that high. Windows XP partially re-created in LittleBigPlanet 2, ups the stakes for gamer ambitiousness (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Woman claims two men took advantage of her after she passed out during New Year’s Eve party in Hadera
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