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• Plane Crashes in Chattanooga

  Shannon Weidemann | September 21, 2007 5:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Four men were injured when a small plane crash landed in Chattanooga. The plane was trying to make an emergency landing at a Chattanooga airport and fell short of its goal. It landed in a shopping center parking lot, hit two cars and a lightpole. Investigators were looking into whether the plane ran out of fuel as it approached Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, police Sgt. Jerri Weary...

• AIDS Drug Contains Carcinogen

  Shannon Weidemann | September 10, 2007 7:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  An AIDS drug manufactured by Pfizer contains a human carcinogen due to an effect of the manufacturing process. Viracept is not being recalled but a warning letter is being issued to doctors. A similar drug manufactured in Europe by Roche Ltd. was recalled. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, however, that some patients might already have been exposed to EMS levels higher than what...

• Plane Crash in California Kills Six

  Jenny Albano | September 02, 2007 5:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  A small plane crashed on Friday, August 31, close to the Kern County Airport and killed a family of six after bursting into flames. The plane left from Santa Monica Valley Airport and was headed to the Kern Valley Airport when the plane crashed.The Lancair Columbia was consumed in a grassfire sparked by the crash, reported shortly after 5:40 p.m., but the one-acre blaze was quickly contained,...