Searchers pick up signal from missing helicopter that disappeared after rescuing hiker in NM

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico authorities say they are getting an emergency transponder signal from one of their own helicopters that went missing north of Santa Fe.

Crews search for helicopter carrying lost hiker that reported problems north of Santa Fe, NM

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico authorities are searching for one of their own helicopters that went missing shortly after its crew rescued a lost hiker.

Officials: 2 killed, 1 missing, dozens injured in explosion, collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — Two workers died when an explosion tore through a Slim Jim meat products plant in North Carolina Tuesday, punching holes in the building’s roof and blowing employees off their feet.

Officials: 2 missing, 41 injured in explosion, partial collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — A blast at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday blew workers off their feet, ripped the building’s roof off its supports and critically burned four people.

Officials: 3 missing, 41 injured by explosion, partial collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — An explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday injured at least 41 people, including four who suffered critical burns, and left a toxic cloud around the facility as authorities searched for three people still missing.

Officials: 3 missing, 38 injured by explosion, partial collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — An explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday injured at least 41 people, including four who suffered critical burns, and left a toxic cloud around the facility as authorities searched for three people still missing.

Two missing, 21 injured after blast at a Slim Jim meat products plant in N.C., officials say

GARNER, N.C. — Two people were missing and 21 injured, four critically, after an explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant in North Carolina, officials said Tuesday. Jeffrey Hammerstein, district chief with Wake County Emergency Medical Services, said a third person initially reported missing was found and taken to the hospital. Authorities were searching for two others.

Officials: 2 missing, 38 injured by explosion, partial collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — An explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday injured at least 38 people, including four who suffered critical burns, and left a toxic cloud around the facility as authorities searched for two people still missing.

Officials: 2 missing, 21 injured by explosion, partial collapse at NC Slim Jim plant

GARNER, N.C. — Two people were missing and 21 injured, four critically, after an explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant in North Carolina, officials said Tuesday.

Brazil: 24 bodies now found from jet crash; search on for Air France black boxes

RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian military authorities say boats searching the Atlantic Ocean have now recovered 24 bodies of passengers on an Air France flight that crashed eight days ago.

Brazilian divers find large tail section from Air France jet and keep searching for black box

RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian divers found a large tail section from an Air France jet on Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that is helping narrow the search for Flight 447’s black boxes. A U.S. Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data and voice recorders.

US sends underwater listening devices to aid black box search in Air France crash

RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian divers found a large tail section from an Air France jet on Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that is helping narrow the search for Flight 447’s black boxes. A U.S. Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data and voice recorders.

Bad weather hampers search for missing US mountain climbers in China

BEIJING — High winds and blizzards hampered the search Monday for two U.S. mountain climbers after the body of a third American climber was found buried in an avalanche in southwestern China, an official said.

Brazil’s military says 17 bodies have been recovered in Atlantic from Air France crash

RECIFE, Brazil — Search boats scouring the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday recovered 15 more bodies of passengers who were aboard a doomed Air France flight that crashed a week ago, Brazilian military authorities said.

Brazil and France recover 4 more bodies near Air France crash site, raising total to 6

RECIFE, Brazil — Search ships methodically worked through a “sea of debris” from a doomed Air France jet Sunday, recovering four more bodies near the spot where the Airbus A330 is believed to have gone down a week ago.

Brazil, France recovers 4 more bodies near Air France crash site, raising total to 6

RECIFE, Brazil — Four more bodies were found Sunday bobbing in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to six, Brazil’s military said.

French helicopter recovers additional body near Air France crash site, raising total to 6

RECIFE, Brazil — A spokesman for France’s armed forces says a French helicopter crew has retrieved an additional body from the ocean where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed, bringing the total to six.

Investigators comb ocean after bodies of 2 Air France Flight 447 passengers are found

RECIFE, Brazil — Investigators combed a huge swath of ocean Sunday, hoping to find more floating evidence of Air France Flight 447 after the bodies of two passengers and a briefcase were pulled from the Atlantic.

Investigators comb ocean in search of more evidence of doomed Air France Flight 477

RECIFE, Brazil — Investigators were combing a huge swath of ocean Sunday in search of more evidence of the doomed Air France Flight 447 after finding the bodies of two passengers and a briefcase.

Body of American climber found after avalanche in southwest China; 2 others missing

BEIJING — The body of an American mountain climber has been found after an avalanche in an isolated part of southwestern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

Report: 26 people killed as landslide buries valley in southwest China; dozens missing

BEIJING — A landslide buried an iron ore plant and several homes, killing at least 26 people and leaving dozens missing in a valley in southwestern China, state television said Saturday.

Report: 26 people killed after landslide buries valley in southwest China; dozens missing

BEIJING — A landslide buried an iron ore plant and several homes killing 26 people and leaving dozens missing in a valley in southwestern, state television said Saturday.

78 people missing after landslide buries mining town in southwestern China

BEIJING — Rescuers searched for 78 missing people Saturday after a landslide buried an iron ore plant and several homes in a valley in southwestern China.

Brazil defends jet debris sea search after wreckage misidentification

RECIFE, Brazil — As Brazil and France disagreed Friday about whether pieces of a downed Air France jet have been found in the Atlantic, investigators used the last messages from the plane to try to avoid future disasters.

Final messages from Air France jet indicate plane likely broke apart above ocean

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 Wednesday while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.

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Forbidding waters may prevent crews from recovering Air France flight recorders

BRUSSELS — The flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

Official says Air France black boxes may never be found; high seas hamper search at crash site

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Military planes and ships struggled through high seas and heavy winds Wednesday and found more debris from an Air France jet, while an investigator said the black boxes may never be found in the depths of the Atlantic.

Brazilian military pilots searching for missing Air France jet spot debris in Atlantic Ocean

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Brazilian military pilots hunting Tuesday for a missing Air France jet spotted an airplane seat, an orange buoy and signs of fuel in a part of the Atlantic Ocean with depths of up to three miles. Brazil’s Navy said three commercial ships in the area were joining the search and France said it would send a ship capable of deep-water exploration. A U.S. spy plane was also diverted from drug interdiction efforts to help with the effort.

Brazil military spots seat cushion, other debris in search for missing plane

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Brazilian military pilots spotted an airplane seat, an orange buoy, and other debris and signs of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday as they hunted for a missing Air France jet that carried 228 people.

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