WTOP.com (AP): Oxon Hill, Maryland - "HELICOPTER CRASHES INTO POTOMAC RIVER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into why a medical helicopter crashed into the Potomac River near the Wilson Bridge Monday night, killing two people and injuring a third. "This is the 11th medical evacuation accident this year. We've had seven of those involving medivac helicopters and 34 dead," says National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Ellen Engleman Conners." (Updated January 11, 2005) (Read More...)
AP.TBO.com (AP): "TWO KILLED IN CIVIL AIR PATROL PLANE CRASH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A small Civil Air Patrol plane crashed during a training exercise in a swampy area of northeastern Louisiana, killing the pilot and a second man on board, authorities said Tuesday. The men were among at least six people killed Monday night in separate small plane crashes in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina, officials said.") (January 11, 2005) (Read More...)
UPDATE and RECAP...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144086,00.html
"More Reports of Lasers Shot Into Cockpits"
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
WASHINGTON —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Cathy Viray, spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, said the bureau is looking into a report that a green light was beamed onto the nose of an aircraft last week as it was taking off from the Burbank airport.
"It's happening all over the place," Viray said Tuesday.
Beginning on Christmas night, there were reports from all over the country of lasers pointed at aircraft cockpits: in Cleveland, Houston, Colorado Springs, Colo., Medford, Ore., and Nashville, Tenn. Many of the reports described a green beam."