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Federal investigators are trying to figure out how to two planes crashed mid-air in Alaska and how the planes' pilots survived. Nathan Frandino reports.
Texas police stated that three people have died after two small aircraft collided in the air over the city of McKinney on Saturday. The two aircraft, a Piper PA-28R and a Luscombe, crashed into each other near the Aero County Airport. One plane went down near a storage facility while the crashed on a busy road near a commercial district of the city. The Aero County airport is a small regional airport that does not have air traffic control - pilots are required to announce landings and takeoffs via radio. Police and fire services cleared Custer Road from Virginia to Bedford as they worked on the scene of the crash. An investigation into the exact circumstances of the crash is ongoing.
A passenger opens an emergency exit on an Asiana Airlines flight as it was preparing to land in South Korea, as captured on amateur-filmed footage. The carrier told AFP that the plane landed safely but several people were hospitalised.
Israeli air strikes killed the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket force in Gaza early on Thursday in the latest in a series of strikes on the enclave that have killed 25, including women and children, and seen militants in the enclave respond by firing hundreds of rockets.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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