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Airplane Mechanic Sucked Into Jet Engine, Killed at El Paso Airport Monday, January 16, 2006 EL PASO, Texas — An airplane mechanic was killed Monday morning after he was sucked into a jet's engine while passengers were boarding from the tarmac, officials said. "A mechanic walked in front of the engine and was pulled into the engine," National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi said. She said she didn't know if any passengers saw the accident as they boarded Continental Airlines flight 1515 to Houston. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the worker was sucked into the right engine of...

Van Bought From Sheriff's Auction Contains Pot Stash 350 Pounds Originally Found In Vehicle POSTED: 10:13 am MDT August 8, 2005 EL PASO, Texas -- The used minivan came with an unexpected option -- about 100 pounds of pot. A man recently bought the 1997 Plymouth Voyager from the El Paso County, Texas, Sheriff's Office. A mechanic who checked under the minivan found the stash of weed. Sheriff's officials say the buyer immediately returned the vehicle. The minivan was seized by authorities when about 350 pounds of marijuana was found inside. Officials are trying to determine how deputies missed the...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Al-Qaida plotted bombings and poison gas attacks against the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Jordan, two conspirators said in a confession aired Monday on Jordanian state television. Azmi al-Jayousi, identified as the head of the Jordanian cell of al-Qaida, appeared Monday in a 20-minute taped program and described meeting Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi in neighboring Iraq to plan the foiled plot. A commentator said the plotters wanted to kill "80,000" Jordanians and had targeted the prime minister's office, intelligence headquarters and the U.S. Embassy. Another Jordanian suspect, car mechanic Hussein Sharif Hussein, was shown saying...

NEW YORK -- It was an airplane mechanic, not a reporter, who got the scoop on John Kerry's choice of John Edwards to be his running mate. Bryan Smith of U.S. Airways was riding through a hangar in Pittsburgh Monday night where Kerry's 757 was waiting for a trip to Indianapolis the next day. Smith was told the hangar was off limits. But he says some of the windows were left open. When he looked inside, he saw "Edwards" decals being attached to the plane's fuselage, then quickly covered with brown paper and masking tape. When Smith got home that...

WICHITA FALLS -- A mechanic is suing a clinic and two doctors, claiming they removed his penis and testicles without consulting him after they mistakenly thought he had cancer. Hurshell Ralls, 67, seeks an unspecified amount in his negligence lawsuit filed against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, Dr. John Stephen Dryden and Dr. Farid G. Khoury. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25. Ralls, who said he had a normal sex life with his wife before the 1999 amputation, said he remains angry with his doctors. "I don't think they should have played God, myself,"...

If there is anybody that knows anything about cars or knows of a good free website that will answer my question, could you chime in here?My problem: I have a 99 protege with 53000 miles on it, and the check engine light is on. I took it to one of those diagnostic centers about a week and a half ago, and they said they couldn't tell what was wrong with it, and they reset the light. They said it was probably nothing urgent, so don't worry unless it comes back on. Well of course, it came back on. The only...

Police said the man was sitting on top of a stepladder, with his upper body buried inside a Boeing 747 through an access door at the bottom of the plane when a real All Nippon Air mechanic spotted him about 9 PM.When the real mechanic asked who he was, the man who was aged between 20 and 30 and was about 165 cm tall, rushed down the ladder, jumped on a bike parked nearby and fled.The mechanic told police that the man's costume and a bag he was carrying looked like genuine Airline service products.Transport Ministry officials carried out a...