Pilot rescued after small plane crashes into Atlantic off crowded beach 41NBC News

Newly released video shows firefighters pulling 57-year-old Mark Finkelstein out of the cockpit feet-first after his single-engine plane went down on August 2.

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    Pilot Fires House, Crashes Plane, IRS Suicide Protest

    What: Joseph Andrew Stack’s (owner) Piper PA-28-236 Dakota en route from Georgetown Municipal Airport
    Where: Northwest Austin, Echelon building
    When: Feb 18, 2010
    Who: Joseph Andrew Stack
    Why: The pilot apparently set his house on fire prior to crashing his plane into the Echelon Building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Northwest Austin. Stack left a suicide note.

    IRS employees in their offices described the crash “as if a bomb went off” “black and gray smoke billowing” and “windows blown out.”


    See PDF of the 6 page suicide letter here


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    France: Air Traffic Control Strike

    French air traffic controllers are on strike.

    Strikers are protesting France’s pension reform that would raise the country’s state pension age for all workers in France from 60 to 62 by 2018. Although public announcements tried to assert that only short haul travel would be affected most strongly, air travel has come to standstill. British Airways has cancelled 90% of flights to France, and Ryanair has also cancelled flights over French airspace. Easyjet cancelled 61 flights; Iberia cancelled 34 flights yesterday alone.

    Spanish airports report some delays.

    French train service has also ground to a halt.

    Reports are that the general strike in France affect French airspace until 0600 hours on Friday, September 24.

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