AP Spotlight The key to surviving a plane crash? Skilled crew, strong seats and wings that detach MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025 Updated Aug 25, 2025 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After watching videos of a Delta Air Lines jet catch fire while landing and flip over on a Toronto runway, it's fair to wonder how anyone survived.kAmpG:2E:@? 6IA6CED D2:5 :E H2D ?@E DFCAC:D:?8 E92E k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^2CE:4=6^56=E2\A=2?6\7=:A\E@C@?E@\42?252\2:CA@CE\>:??62A@=:D\e5_ec334f2b33gdhd`gb5efed5e`2_66Q E2C86ElQ03=2?<Qm2== fe A2DD6?86CD 2?5 7@FC 4C6H >6>36CD H2=<65 2H2Jk^2m 7C@> |@?52JVD 5:D2DE6C[ H:E9 a` A6@A=6 DF776C:?8 >:?@C :?;FC:6D 2?5 @?=J @?6 DE:== 9@DA:E2=:K65 (65?6D52J] xEVD 2 4C65:E[ E96J D2:5[ E@ 25G2?46D :? A=2?6 56D:8? 2D H6== 2D 2 4C6H E92E 7=2H=6DD=J 6I64FE65 2? 6G24F2E:@? 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Economy Pilots have long worried about DC's complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe RYAN J. FOLEY, JIM MUSTIAN AND MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press
Judge orders Trump to halt White House ballroom construction unless Congress OKs it The judge noted, "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."
Pam Bondi, Trump loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, is out as attorney general The announcement follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking inves…
Hegseth asks the Army's top uniformed officer to step down as US wages war against Iran He's the latest of more than a dozen top generals and admirals Hegseth ousted since taking office last year.
Judge blocks Trump order to end National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service funding The judge said the First Amendment right to free speech "does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type."
Fact-checking claims from Trump's address to the nation about Iran In his remarks Wednesday night, Trump declared that he inherited a "dead and crippled country" and delivered an economy with "no inflation." H…
