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without a seat belt have been higher. Before 2019, the number of fatalities had fallen for three straight years. “People make mistakes, but human mistakes don’t always have to be lethal. In a well-designed system, safety measures make sure that human fallibility does not lead to human fatalities,” Buttigieg said on Tuesday in a statement. “That’s what we will be doing for America’s roads with the National Roadway Safety Strategy and the safe system approach that it embraces.”
three neonatal intensive care nurses onboard that flight. And in the summer of 2021, a baby girl was born on a U.S. military evacuation flight from Afghanistan en route to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. She was named Reach after the call sign of the aircraft.
Party Plane
from a kid’s birthday party, through to a new product launch or a corporate presentation.” Upcoming bookings include a filming commission for a TV show, as well as a number of parties. The aircraft can also be hired for weddings at a cost of £12,000 ($16,000) for 24 hours, which factors in set up and breakdown times. The team already has a wedding booked in this spring. Bat mitzvah, anyone?
Snow Man and Wife
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There was an extra person walking off the United Airlines Flight 997 in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Well, we shouldn’t say he was “walking.” Instead, the newborn was cradled in his mother’s arms after he made his debut over the Atlantic just hours before. The midflight delivery began hours after the plane departed from Accra, the capital of Ghana. Thankfully, a nurse and physician were onboard and were able to assist in the delivery. Although not common, other people have given birth on planes. In the spring of 2021, a woman gave birth on a flight to Hawaii from Salt Lake City, Utah. She was 29 weeks pregnant. Amazingly, there was a doctor and
This plane has been grounded, but it’s not retiring. The decommissioned British Airways jet is now starting its second career as a party plane. The Negus 747 was bought by Suzannah Harvey for a mere £1 (around $1.30) back in October 2020. Since then, she has spent more than a year converting the aircraft into a “party plane,” with rates starting at about $1,300 an hour. Harvey is chief executive of the privately owned Cotswold Airport near Kemble in England. She said it took six weeks of negotiations before she was able to buy the plane. Although the livery and cockpit stayed the same, the entire economy section has been ripped out and replaced with custom lighting, a party room, and a bar. The makeover has cost nearly £500,000 ($671,000). This month, the party is about to start. “We’re absolutely inundated with inquiries at the moment,” says Harvey. “It’s a very versatile events facility, so it can accommodate anything
ny. Meanwhile, Adam surprised everyone at the impromptu altar by unveiling a suit underneath snowboarding gear. To top off the celebrations, the couple said everyone ended up playing in the snow — they were also keen to start a snowball fight once they’d officially said yes. “Adam actually fired the first shot at me,” Sally said. “But it was so hard to do anything out there. If you didn’t have goggles, it was hard to see. It was crazy.” Talk about having cold feet when tying the knot.
Coldest Marathon Ever
Despite the bands of snow dumping inches of white freezing flakes onto their ceremony, a Rhode Island couple braved their way down the aisle. Adam and Sally Irujo were set to get married on January 29 – they saved the date around 14 months ago. And despite forecasters’ predictions for a blizzard, the couple decided to move forward with their outdoor ceremony. “We have a few cutting boards with this date on it, a couple mugs, and a marriage license with it on it,” Sally Irujo explained. And so, the wedding took place on Saturday outside the Providence Public Library, with snow blanketing the area around them as the couple exchanged their vows in front of forty guests bundled up in coats and wearing boots. “We were joking for the whole year, there’s going to be a blizzard, and sure as can be it’s literally the blizzard of the year,” Adam said. Despite tough weather conditions, the Irujos still dressed the part. Sally wore a cream skirt she originally used for their rehearsal dinner with a white sweater and pulled her hair back underneath a cream-colored hat. “I actually had snow pants on my way over for the first 10th of a mile,” she said, said, adding that she wanted to take them off for the actual ceremo-
Speaking of cold feet, a marathon in Siberia may have broken a Guinness World Record when runners braved temperatures of 63.4 degrees below zero two weeks ago. Organizers of the Pole of Cold Marathon in Yakutia, Russia, said the start time for the race was pushed up to the early morning on January 21 after weather forecasts indicated the temperature would dip to 76 degrees below zero in the afternoon. The temperature during the race reached a low of 63.4 degrees below zero. Think that was cold? Guinness World Records currently lists the world’s coldest marathon as 2001’s Siberian Ice Marathon, where the temperature was about 38 degrees below zero, so this marathon may just be the coldest yet. Despite the freeze, Russian runner Vasily Lukin did not stay frozen, winning the Pole of Cold Marathon in 3 hours, 22 minutes. There were 65 runners in the race, cheered on by 100 dedicated spectators. Marina Sedalischeva, a Yakutia local, was the first woman to finish the race, with a time of 4 hours, 9 minutes. Could it be she broke out into a cold sweat during this marathon?
