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Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Helicopter ditches in the North •Stanford Financial Group: two escaped Russian hostages Sea; all 18 on board rescued who were abducted in the Niger •SFG units are seized in A British helicopter with eighteen Delta in December Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador, and people on board ditched in the Peru. water while approaching an oil Violence erupts in Guadeloupe installation in the North Sea. •The Federal Bureau of after labor dispute According to Her Majesty's Investigation serves Allen Violence has erupted in Coastguard, everyone on board Stanford with a fraud complaint Guadeloupe after a month-long the aircraft survived the crash, on behalf of U.S. Securities and general strike protesting the high and have been picked up by two Exchange Commission. costs of food and fuel. life-boats. •China claims it has artificially produced snowfall by cloud A union official, Jacques Bino, has US automakers GM and seeding to ease drought. been reported killed by armed Chrysler seek more youths at a barricade in Pointe-à- government aid •Palestinian militants fire three Pitre, the largest city. Three police The United States auto rockets into Israel. officers were injured when they manufacturer Chrysler, which has •Opinion polls show that the tried to reach the scene. been badly affected by the Swedish public supports the ongoing recession, has asked the government’s refusal to bail out "He was killed at a roadblock held US government for an additional the automaker with taxpayer by rioters, a group of youth who US$5 billion in aid on top of the money. were mostly wearing masks," four billion it has already Prefect Nicolas Desforges told received. Another automaker, •General Motors may lend its France Info. "He wasn’t killed in a General Motors, announced that it subsidiary US$400 million. confrontation with police." seeks $16.6 billion in loans from •Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Council the government, in addition to approves the closure of the U.S. Guadeloupe is an overseas the $13.4 billion that it has Air Force's Manas Air Base. department of France. The French already been loaned. government urged calm and called •A Russian court acquits three for a meeting between the men of aiding the 2006 murder of Buffalo, New York plane crash disputing parties. Workers in investigative journalist Anna may have resulted from pilot Guadeloupe are seeking a $250 Politkovskaya. error per month pay raise. The investigation into Continental •The French battleship Danton is Connection Flight 3407, which discovered in the Mediterranean French Interior Minister Michèle crashed near Buffalo, New York Sea. Alliot-Marie said that France is last week, suggests that the pilot sending 260 National Gendarmerie •U.S. President Barack Obama of the turboprop commuter officers to quell the violence. airliner may have put the aircraft meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in into its plunge. Minister of Overseas France, Yves Ottawa. Jégo, said that France has set Wikipedia Current Events •China's Ministry of Health reports aside €190 million for increased that HIV/AIDS was the country's food, housing, and unemployment California's State Senate leading cause of death in 2008. allowances in Guadeloupe. approves a budget. •Nigeria's Military Forces locate If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Friday, February 20, 2009 Wikinews Page 2 Meanwhile, there are reports that wings of an airplane, and the unrest has spread to nearby The helicopter, a Super Puma aircraft can no longer keep the lift Martinique. registered (G-REDU) to Bond necessary to keep it airborne, Offshore Helicopters, crashed causing it to fall. Court rejects Polanski bid to about 125 miles miles east of the have child sex charges Scottish city of Aberdeen. A The normal maneuver to recover dismissed Nimrod jet from the RAF Kinloss, a from a stall for wing icing is to Superior Court Judge Peter Sea King helicopter from RAF apply full power to the engines and Espinoza has today rejected a Lossiemouth, and several choppers push the nose down. For a tail stall motion by lawyers for French film from nearby oil platforms searched recovery, the opposite procedure director Roman Polanski to have the area after the alarm was is used: the nose should be pulled charges of unlawful sex with a raised at 18.40 GMT. The search up and engine power reduced. In child dismissed. effort, however, was hampered by this instance, the pilot seems to limited visibility and low clouds in have pulled the nose upward, but In 1977, Polanski was arrested the area. also increased the engine throttles charged with sodomy, sexual to their full setting. assault and rape of a 13-year-old Dave Webster, a squadron leader girl at Jack Nicholson's house in with the Royal Air Force, said that After the airplane pulled up California, United States. this type of accident is a very rare abruptly, it then pitched down at occurrence. an angle of 31 degrees, rolling left Polanski agreed to plead guilty to and right, partially upside-down. unlawful sex with a child, often The helicopter that ditched would This sort of stall is known as an called statutory rape, in exchange have been equipped with survival aggravated stall, and it can be for having the more serious suits to shield the passengers from very difficult to return the airplane charges dropped. the cold waters, as well as a to normal flight from one. In this flotation device. case, the pilot had less than two However, in 1978, before his thousand feet to do so before the sentencing, Polanski fled the Buffalo, New York plane crash aircraft impacted from the ground. United States. He has since been a may have resulted from pilot fugitive and faces arrest if he sets error The pilot's training has now been foot on US soil. France refuses to The investigation into Continental put into question, and it was extradite him. Connection Flight 3407, which discovered that the captain, crashed near Buffalo, New York Marvin Renslow, aged 47, had Polanski's lawyers argued that last week, suggests that the pilot logged only 110 hours in this there were irregularities and of the turboprop commuter airliner particular aircraft, though he had misconduct in the original handling may have put the aircraft into its thousands of hours in similar of the case. While the Judge plunge. aircraft. Experts say his experience agreed, he rejected the notion that should have adequately prepared the charges should be dismissed A source close to the investigation him. on the grounds that Polanski says that information from the cannot challenge the ruling while flight data recorder on board the A spokesman for the National on the run as a fugitive. airplane indicated that the pilot's Transportation Safety Board, Keith control column, the device which is Holloway, said that it is currently Helicopter ditches in the North used to steer the aircraft, was too early to definitively say what Sea; all 18 on board rescued pulled upward abruptly, thereby caused the crash. "We have not A British helicopter with eighteen causing the nose of the airplane to concluded anything," he said. people on board ditched in the pitch up. water while approaching an oil Continental Connection Flight 3407 installation in the North Sea on The sudden pitch-up movement crashed into a house in Clarence Wednesday. According to Her happened soon after the flight Center, a suburb of Buffalo on Majesty's Coastguard, everyone on crew received a warning in the February 12 in icy weather, killing board the aircraft survived the cockpit that the aircraft was about all 49 people on board the airplane crash, and have been picked up by to stall. In aviation, a stall is when and one person on the ground. two life-boats. the air no longer flows over the If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Friday, February 20, 2009 Wikinews Page 3 Colombian military spy plane US automakers GM and plans for several weeks before a crashes Chrysler seek more decision is made on whether or not According to media reports, a government aid to extend the loans. That decision Colombian air force AC-47 The United States auto is due by the end of next month. (registration FAC1670) spy plane manufacturer Chrysler, which has carrying five people has crashed been badly affected by the ongoing Two nuclear submarines collide near the Colombian city of La recession, has asked the US in the Atlantic Ocean Dorada, in the department of government for an additional US$5 The Nuclear ballistic missile Caldas. billion in aid on top of the four submarines Triomphant, from billion it has already received, France, and HMS Vanguard, of the All on board the plane are believed saying that it plans to fire three British Royal Navy, collided deep to have been killed, according to thousand employees. At the end of under the middle of the Atlantic Colombia Reports. Among the last year, the auto maker had just Ocean in the middle of the night dead, according to Monsters and over 54,000 employees, meaning between February 3 and 4, despite Critics, are two technicians, a that the layoffs will equal about six both vessels being equipped with major and two second lieutenants. percent of its total workforce. sonar. The collision caused ABS-CBN News reports that the damage to both vessels but it did dead included three high ranking Another automaker, General not release any radioactive officials and two lower ranking Motors (GM), announced that it material, a Ministry of Defence ones.