Batangas Today: “Plane Crash-Lands on Road: Airliner Caught Fire in Myanmar on Christmas Day” plus 2 more

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• Plane Crash-Lands on Road: Airliner Caught Fire in Myanmar on Christmas Day
• Alligator Found In Detroit Rescued By Resident
• Hawaiian Islands dissolving from within, study says

Plane Crash-Lands on Road: Airliner Caught Fire in Myanmar on Christmas Day Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:44 AM PST Christmas Day 2012 ended on a sad note for tourists on board an airliner that crash-lands on road in Central Myanmar on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. Air Bagan Plane Image Credit: Air Bagan on Facebook The plane-crash incident involving an Air Bagan flight has claimed the lives of an airline crew and a certain U Pyar, who was hit by the plane while riding a motorcycle on the road. A press release by Air Bagan on Facebook explained that their Fokker 100 plane made the emergency landing when the “aircraft caught fire.” Air Bagan flight W9-011 from Mandalay City was on its way to Heho airport in Shan state. The airline was carrying 65 airline passengers that include 51 foreigners and six airline crew members . Meanwhile, four of the listed injured passengers were foreigners. Below is the complete press release of Air Bagan, published on Facebook. An accident happened to Air Bagan flight W9-011 during landing near Heho airport at 08:50 a.m. on 25 December 2012. The Fokker 100 aircraft was carrying 65 passengers, 6 crew members including a pilot and a co-pilot. The emergency exit was opened as soon as the aircraft landed in the nearby field and passengers were evacuated by our cabin crew. Eight passengers were injured as the aircraft caught fire and were taken to the nearest Sao San Tun hospital in Taung Gyi for treatment. Ma Nwe Lin Shein, a tour guide, was identified as the only fatality on board. U Pyar who was travelling on a motor cycle on the ground was hit by the aircraft as it landed and was killed. Twenty six of the passengers were brought back to Yangon on a special flight arranged by Air Bagan and were taken to Victoria hospital for medical check-up. They will be accommodated at the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel after being discharged from the hospital tonight. All remaining passengers including the eight injured ones will be arriving Yangon tonight on Air Bagan special flight. Air Bagan deeply regret the deaths of two persons and tender its condolences to the bereaved families. We apologize to all passengers and their families for the inconvenience caused by the accident. We will provide every help and assistance that the passengers might need during their time at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel. Air Bagan in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport is investigating into the cause of the accident. We will take full responsibility for all passengers and will release further information as we received it.

Alligator Found In Detroit Rescued By Resident Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:02 AM PST A 5-foot alligator was found in Detroit‘s east side after a truck tossed it out in a vacant lot, Detroit news sites reported on Friday, December 21, 2012. According to WDIV-TV as reported by Click On Detroit, a black truck dumped the alligator on Thursday night as seen by neighbors who are used to seeing people dumping garbage along their street. Shontez Gibson, a resident, helped rescue the poor animal with the help of his uncle. He reportedly captured the animal, placed it in a room with a heater and fed it with fish. He then contacted the Michigan Humane Society which took the alligator and brought it to their facilities in Rochester Hills that handles exotic animals . The alligator found in Detroit is now safe in its new home inside the Michigan Humane Society facilities, reports said.

Hawaiian Islands dissolving from within, study says Posted: 24 Dec 2012 08:33 PM PST The Hawaiian Islands are dissolving from within, with Koolau and Waianae mountains in Oahu, which is also known as ‘The Gathering Place,’ now being predicted by a group of geologist to be reduced into a flat and low-lying island. The study involved calculating the quantity of mass that vanished from Oahu every year. A part of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands Image Credit: Brigham Young University According to post at the official news site of Brigham Young University, a private university owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Provo, Utah, a team of their geologists made a study on the Hawaiian Islands and was assisted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). “We tried to figure out how fast the island is going away and what the influence of climate is on that rate. More material is dissolving from those islands than what is being carried off through erosion.” Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson, co-author of the study, was quoted at News.BYU.edu.com. “All of the Hawaiian Islands are made of just one kind of rock. The weathering rates are variable, too, because rainfall is so variable, so it's a great natural laboratory.” Nelson added, whose BYU geologist team spent two months in taking samples from both mountains to find out why the said islands are dissolving. To accomplish this, BYU geologists analyzed the ground surface water and stream water from the Hawaiian Islands. The theory is that the force of the ground water will eventually rise and Oahu, which is being pushed north-west, will then gradually start to become a flat island. The study, which is also published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, also noted that the effect of “Hawaiian Islands dissolving” was estimated to continue to as long as 1.5 million years.

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