December 10, 2005More than 100 people are killed; seven survivors hNigerian plane that crashed carrying 'large number' of children LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- A Nigerian passenger plane carrying a "large number" of school children headed home for the holidays crashed and burned Saturday at an airport in Port Harcourt. One-hundred-and-three of the 110 people on board were killed, Nigeria's federal aviation authority said.Seven surviving passengers were taken to the hospital, Chika Onah of the Nigerian Red Cross told CNN.Students from a Catholic secondary school in Abuja were aboard the plane, returning home for the holidays, according to the Rev. Felix Femi Ajakaye, spokesman for the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in the nation's capital, Abuja. The students, who ranged in age from 10 to 18 years old, attended Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja, the reverend said. It is unclear if any of them were among the survivors. The airlines' managing director Oscar Ikwuemesi confirmed "there were a large number of children aboard the flight," without offering any details.A search-and-rescue operation is under way at the airport, and bodies are still being recovered, said Femi Shittu, acting director of Nigeria's federal aviation authority.The domestic Sosoliso Airlines plane was coming in from the nation's capital of Abuja during bad weather, though it remained unclear what caused the crash, Nigerian government spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode said."We will get to the bottom of it, we will ascertain the cause and the government and Mr. President (Olusegun Obasanjo) will do everything within his power to ensure that this sort of thing does not happen within our airspace again," he said.Witnesses said an explosion and massive fireball followed the crash, engulfing the plane in flames. The Associated Press reported that the plane was a DC-9.Government spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode pledged a full investigation into the cause of the crash. Sosoliso Airlines, a Nigerian company, was established in 1994 and began domestic flights to six cities in 2000. There are no reports of previous crashes involving the airline.An airport worker described a horrific scene at Port Harcourt, according to the AP. He said burned bodies lay across the landing area after the plane broke into pieces. "The place where I'm standing now is scattered with corpses," told the AP. He said the dead -- "many of them burned beyond recognition" -- were being taken to mortuaries. The plane had shattered "into many pieces, scattered all over the ground," the airport employee told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity.Fani-Kayode said Nigeria's federal aviation authority has launched a search-and-rescue operation at the airport, but had no details on casualtiesNigerian airports have come under criticism in recent months following a string of near-misses, including one at Port Harcourt in which an Air France passenger jet crashed into a herd of cows on the runway, according to the AP. International airlines briefly suspended flights at Lagos' international airport because of holes in the runway, the wire service said.Saturday's crash comes less than two months after a Bellview Airlines plane went down north of Lagos during bad weather, killing all 117 people on board. (Full story)One of the passengers killed in the October 22 crash was an American. Maj. Joseph J. Haydon Jr., 40, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was assigned to the Office of Defense Cooperation in the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.Journalist Christian Allen Purefoy in Lagos contributed to this report Associated Press contributed to this report.
THAT' S WHY WE DO MISSIONS!! God bless the planet built by Him to His glory, not for that! We 're asking for His mercy. Zoení Tompakow. htpp://zuuka.buzznet.com
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December 4, 2005Pérolas da PUCSei que esta galeria é para fatos e news serias mesmo.Mas impossível deixar de publicar isto!
Pérolas da PUC-RJ As redações do vestibular 2005 da PUC-Rio acabam de ser corrigidas. Eis as pérolas deste ano:
a) Sobrevivência de um aborto vivo ( título); b) O Brasil é um País abastardo com um futuro promissório; c) O maior matrimônio do País é a educação; d) Precisamos tirar as fendas dos olhos para enxergar com clareza o número defamigerados que aumenta; e) Os analfabetos nunca tiveram chance de voltar à escola; f) O bem star dos abtantes endependente de roça, religião, sexo e vegetarianos, está preocupan-do-nos; g) É preciso melhorar as indiferenças sociais e promover o saneamento de muitas pessoas; h) Também preoculpa o avanço regressivo da violência; i) Segundo Darcy Gonçalves (Darcy Ribeiro) e o juiz Nicolau de Melo Neto(Nicolau dos Santos Neto); j) Resposta a uma pergunta: "Esta não cei". A MELHOR !!! k) E o presidente onde está? Certamente em sua cadeira fumando baseado e conversando com o presidente dos EUA.
HISTÓRIA !!! a) O Hino Nacional Francês se chama La Mayonèse... b) Tiradentes, depois de morto, foi decapitulado. c) Entres os índios de América, destacam-se os aztecas, os incas, maiôs pirineus, etc. d) A História se divide em 4: Antiga, Média, Moderna e Momentânea (esta, a dos nossos dias). e) Em Esparta as crianças que nasciam mortas eram sacrificadas.
OUTRAS EXCELENTES!!! a) Resposta à pergunta: "Que entende por helenização?": "Não entendo nada". (muito boa...rsrsrs) b) No começo os índios eram muito atrazados mas com o tempo foram se sifilizando. c) Entre os povos orientais os casamentos eram feitos "no escuro" e os noivos só se conheciam na hora h. d) Então o governo precisou contratar oficiais para fortalecer o exército da marinha. e) Em homenagem a Gutenberg, fizeram na Alemanha uma estátua, tirando uma folha do prelo, com os dizeres: "e a luz foi iluminada". f) No tempo colonial o Brasil só dependia do café e de outros produtos extremamente vegetarianos.
GEOGRAFIA!!! a) A capital de Portugal é Luiz Boa. b) A Geografia Humana estuda o homem em que vivemos. c) O Brasil é um país muito aguado pela chuva. d) Na América do Norte tem mais de 100.000 Km de estradas de ferro cimentadas. (nossa...) e) Oceano é onde nasce o Sol; onde ele nasce é o nascente, e onde desce, decente. f) Na América Central há países como a República do Minicana. (República Dominicana)
ESTAS SÃO DEZ!!! a) A Terra é um dos planetas mais conhecidos no mundo e suas constelações servem para esclarecer a noite. b) As principais cidades da América do Norte são Argentina e Estados Unidos. c) Expansivas são as pessoas tangarelas.
HORS-CONCOURS O clima de São Paulo é assim: quando faz frio é inverno; quando faz calor é verão; quando tem flores é primavera; quando tem frutas é outono e quando chove é inundação. (sem comentários!!!)
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