Paraglider Survives High-Flying Ordeal
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By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia - A champion German paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm in eastern Australia.
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This was a high-flying, high-scoring show even Chad Johnson and all his props couldn't top.
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The only person known to have survived an unprotected plunge over Niagara Falls has returned to the scene of his stunt. Kirk Jones, 40, went over the 167-foot Horse Shoe Falls on Oct. 20, 2003.
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Four passengers had a remarkable escape when the plane they were travelling in burst into flames after losing both its wings in a crash-landing
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Injured captain is winched to safety at the second attempt as stricken ship rolls in gale-force winds
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A single-engine plane used by a parachuting club crashed into a field, killing a man whose parachute got tangled in the plane's tail. The others on board, including the pilot, parachuted to safety.
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PORT ALLEN, Hawaii Sept. 27, 2004 - Wind up to 60 mph prevented helicopters from lowering rescue workers to the wreckage of a tour helicopter that crashed in a remote mountainous area of Kauai.
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More than 150 passengers survive as a plane operated by Lloyd Aereo Boliviano crash lands in a swamp.
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Female passenger grappled with controls during mid-air hijacking attempt over New Zealand
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Rafi Yoeli has an unconventional solution to saving people from burning high-rises or rescuing soldiers trapped behind enemy lines: a flying car.
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An airline success story in an otherwise grim industry tries to keep its inner quirk.
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As an actor playing Superman, Christopher Reeve could never really fly. But, somehow, after a spinal chord injury left him unable to breathe or move a limb on his own, Reeve - the man - learned to soar.
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The hoopla is normally reserved for the highest dignitaries. When Brooke Ellison took her first flight, she was greeted by two fire trucks on either side of the plane spraying an arc of water over it. Ellison's flight Friday was no small feat: She has been paralyzed from the neck down since being hit by a car in 1990.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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HELENA, Mont.  - A woman who survived a plane  crash in Montana then hiked down a mountain was expected to  make a full recovery, while the other survivor, who made the  grueling trek with a fractured spine, was in good spirits but  awaiting surgery, officials said on Friday.
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altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight on Wednesday. world altitude record for a fixed-wing aircraft, set in 1963 by the experimental X-15 rocket plane.
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The controversial tilt-rotor aircraft has defied its critics with its performance to date in its harsh new landscape.