Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s Flying Wild Alaska series, has been killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after take-off, Alaska State Troopers say. Tweto’s family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the … [Read more…]
Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s Flying Wild Alaska series, has been killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after take-off, Alaska State Troopers say. Tweto’s family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the … [Read more…]
Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s Flying Wild Alaska series, has been killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after take-off, Alaska State Troopers say. Tweto’s family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the … [Read more…]
A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family says. Gilberto Barbera Montoya, the woman’s son, told the Associated Press that doctors at the state hospital where she was rushed after … [Read more…]
Flags have been lowered in the Canadian province of Manitoba and relatives are bracing for bad news after 15 mainly elderly people died in one of the country’s worst recent road crashes. Police have not identified any of the victims of the collision between a truck and a bus near the town of Carberry in … [Read more…]
Police have issued defect and infringement notices to the transport company at the centre of the Hunter Valley bus tragedy following raids on two depots. Sunday night’s crash near Greta killed 10 people, and nine others remain in hospital. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Police have issued notices to the transport company at the centre of … [Read more…]
A teenager has been killed at a workshop in Perth’s southeast. It is understood the 16-year-old boy was crushed as he worked at sandblasting business TLC Surface Treatment on Railway Pde in Welshpool. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Teen crushed at sandblasting business in Welshpool, Perth. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus … [Read more…]
An urgent search has resumed on Thursday morning for a 43-year-old boatie missing off the NSW coast. Ashley McKellar failed to return home as planned after a voyage at Lake Macquarie on Wednesday, sparking the multi-agency response that night, according to Marine Rescue NSW. He was last seen at a Bolton Point home at 8.30am … [Read more…]
At least 79 migrants have drowned and hundreds more are feared dead or missing after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of Europe’s deadliest shipping disasters. As a painstaking search for survivors continued, a European rescue support charity said it believed about 750 people were on board the … [Read more…]
Ten people have been killed in a bus rollover involving about 40 people in NSW’s Hunter Valley. The 58-year-old bus driver was taken to hospital for mandatory testing and subsequently arrested with charges expected. Emergency services were called to the crash site about 11.30pm on Sunday at a roundabout on Wine Country Drive near Greta … [Read more…]