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Houston news: United plane evacuated after landing issue at Bush
“There was a lot of yelling because it was a big bang, and then everyone was sitting sideways,” John Lee of Houston told us.
HOUSTON — Passengers were evacuated from a United Airlines plane that veered off the runway at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston Friday morning.
United said it happened when the flight from Memphis landed and went from the runway into the grass as it was heading to the gate.
“2477, I see you in the grass, we’re rolling, ah trucks in route,” the tower is heard saying on audio obtained by KHOU 11 News. “We’ve got an aircraft off the runway …”
No injuries were reported but passengers said it was scary.
“There was a lot of yelling because it was a big bang, and then everyone was sitting sideways,” John Lee of Houston said. “People were really starting to raise the anxiety and get scared.”
“Well, there was a huge pop, plane tilted over and everybody kind of gasped. The lady across the way screamed,” Mike Allard from New Caney, Texas told us.
“We landed fine, and then there was a loud boom. So I thought we hit another plane,” Candace Davis said. “And then we just started going into the grass. And the plane just started leaning.”
Darrin Foster said he flew to Houston for his cousin’s wedding and to celebrate his birthday but his trip got off to a bad start.
“When we landed it was kind of rough, like we came in too fast or something,” Foster said. “I was kind of nervous, scared. I didn’t know what was going on and then that’s when they said fuel was leaking.”
Passengers were evacuated from the plane and bussed to the terminal.
According to the airline, there were a total of 160 passengers and a six-person crew.
The FAA was notified and the National Transportation Safety Board said they were sending a team to investigate.
The plane was still in the grass early Friday evening but workers were hanging a tarp across the fence that blocked the view.
Flights in and out of Bush were not impacted, according to United.
Third United incident this week
Friday’s incident is the third we’ve reported this week involving a United flight.
On Thursday, we learned that a tire fell from a United flight that took off in San Francisco. The plane landed safely at LAX.
On Monday, flames could be seen coming from an engine of a flight that took off from Houston and the pilot was forced to return to the airport. United later said the fire was caused by bubble wrap on the airfield being sucked into the engine.
No injuries were reported in either incident, according to United.
United issued the following statement about the three incidents Friday evening.
“We take every safety event seriously and will investigate each of the incidents that occurred this week to understand what happened and learn from them. Much of this work is conducted together with Boeing, the FAA, and the NTSB as well as with the manufacturers of individual components. While this work is ongoing, each of these events is distinct and unrelated to one another. Safety is our top priority, and we’ll continue to do everything we can to keep our customers and employees safe.”
Local mom of two Kirsten Coder didn’t let her cancer diagnosis stop her in her tracks, she got through it all with help from others and places like Hope Chest.
ORONO, Minn. — The three words “You have cancer” are life-changing.
“It was devastating,” said Kirsten Coder, a Twin Cities mom of two. “It was like my world just fell out from under me.”
Kirsten Coder’s mom was the first in their family to have breast cancer.
“They got her right into chemo like essentially like after finding out she had cancer cause it was very aggressive and it worked and um we’re really thankful for that and she had the full meal deal,” Coder shared. “We call it the double mastectomy of chemo and radiation and she’s still here today and cancer-free.”
Her mom was cancer-free, but little did Kirsten know her own battle with cancer was about to begin.
“I started screening, they wanted me to at 10 years before my mom’s diagnosis and that put me at 39 and I’d had a, a lump for a number of years that was bothering me,” Coder said.
Despite so many unknowns coming with a breast cancer diagnosis, the hardest part for Kirsten was telling her daughters.
“My girls knew something was wrong because I just told them I had something that was hurting me that I just needed to get figured out what it was, and my girls knew before I even told them that it was something,” Coder said.
“I said, ‘This is big guys’ and before I even said the words, they said, ‘Mom, God’s gotten us through some pretty hard things already in our life and we know God’s gonna get us through this too.’ I knew right then that we were gonna be ok.”
Kirsten was thankful she was in the early stages, soon undergoing a bilateral mastectomy, chemo and radiation. She says finding a support system and not being afraid to ask for help from organizations like Hope Chest for Breast Cancer made a huge difference.
“I first learned of Hope Chest in around 2009 when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer,” said Coder. “She said did you know there’s a store you can go shop and the proceeds go towards helping women with breast cancer and I thought, let’s check it out.”
A percentage of every item sold at the resale store in Orono goes towards helping families like Kirsten’s in the breast cancer community.
“We help with rent, mortgage groceries, auto-related expenses, daycare and we are seeing more unique needs come through for the patients,” said Hope Chest Executive Director Maureen Scallen Failor.
Failor says Hope Chest has been doing incredible things since its inception in 2001. To date, they have shared over $2.9 million in patient grants, which has served over 6,000 patients.
“It was like kind of a surprise after surprise along the way and I’m self-employed and I don’t have sick time,” said Coder. “I had to take time off work to recover from these things and take care of my kids too. That’s why I’m so thankful for hope chest.”
Local mom of two Kirsten Coder didn’t let her cancer diagnosis stop her in her tracks, she got through it all with help from others and places like Hope Chest.
ORONO, Minn. — The three words “You have cancer” are life-changing.
“It was devastating,” said Kirsten Coder, a Twin Cities mom of two. “It was like my world just fell out from under me.”
Kirsten Coder’s mom was the first in their family to have breast cancer.
“They got her right into chemo like essentially like after finding out she had cancer cause it was very aggressive and it worked and um we’re really thankful for that and she had the full meal deal,” Coder shared. “We call it the double mastectomy of chemo and radiation and she’s still here today and cancer-free.”
Her mom was cancer-free, but little did Kirsten know her own battle with cancer was about to begin.
“I started screening, they wanted me to at 10 years before my mom’s diagnosis and that put me at 39 and I’d had a, a lump for a number of years that was bothering me,” Coder said.
Despite so many unknowns coming with a breast cancer diagnosis, the hardest part for Kirsten was telling her daughters.
“My girls knew something was wrong because I just told them I had something that was hurting me that I just needed to get figured out what it was, and my girls knew before I even told them that it was something,” Coder said.
“I said, ‘This is big guys’ and before I even said the words, they said, ‘Mom, God’s gotten us through some pretty hard things already in our life and we know God’s gonna get us through this too.’ I knew right then that we were gonna be ok.”
Kirsten was thankful she was in the early stages, soon undergoing a bilateral mastectomy, chemo and radiation. She says finding a support system and not being afraid to ask for help from organizations like Hope Chest for Breast Cancer made a huge difference.
“I first learned of Hope Chest in around 2009 when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer,” said Coder. “She said did you know there’s a store you can go shop and the proceeds go towards helping women with breast cancer and I thought, let’s check it out.”
A percentage of every item sold at the resale store in Orono goes towards helping families like Kirsten’s in the breast cancer community.
“We help with rent, mortgage groceries, auto-related expenses, daycare and we are seeing more unique needs come through for the patients,” said Hope Chest Executive Director Maureen Scallen Failor.
Failor says Hope Chest has been doing incredible things since its inception in 2001. To date, they have shared over $2.9 million in patient grants, which has served over 6,000 patients.
“It was like kind of a surprise after surprise along the way and I’m self-employed and I don’t have sick time,” said Coder. “I had to take time off work to recover from these things and take care of my kids too. That’s why I’m so thankful for hope chest.”
Johnson, who played hockey at Hibbing and UMD, died after his neck was cut by an opponent’s skate during a pro game in Sheffield, England.
SHEFFIELD, UK — It’s been one year since the death of American hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was fatally cut by an opponent’s skate during a game in Sheffield, England.
A man remains under investigation after being arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Thousands of fans witnessed the grisly collision last Oct. 28 and there’s video of it but authorities have not announced a decision about whether they will bring charges.
There could be a variety of explanations, from delays in digital forensic analyses to weighing the potential difficulty in proving criminality for “on-the-ball” incidents like this one.
Johnson and the Nottingham Panthers were playing the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League’s cup competition. The Steelers were leading 2-1 in the second period. Johnson, a forward who briefly played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, skated with the puck into Sheffield’s defensive zone. As he pivoted to move inside, Steelers defenseman Matt Petgrave was skating toward him. Petgrave had another Panthers player in front of him and appeared to have made contact. Then, Petgrave’s left skate elevated as the defenseman began to fall and the blade hit Johnson in the neck.
Johnson, a Minnesota native who was 29, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The Panthers had described it as a “freak accident.” On Nov. 14, South Yorkshire Police arrested a man but have not released his name or age. The man was released on bail the next day and has been “ re-bailed ” several times — a formality while the investigation continues. In the British system, an arrest signals the start of an investigation — a decision on charges would come afterward.
Police try to determine the “state of mind” of defendants. Besides conducting interviews, that likely means examining phones or computers — and that’s time consuming, even when defendants give passwords, which they’re not obligated to do.
“There are massive delays in the British criminal justice system. Cases are taking a long time to be brought to charge,” criminal defense lawyer Quentin Hunt told The Associated Press.
A report published less than two years ago said there was a backlog of 25,000 devices waiting to be examined.
“My cases are regularly being delayed by up to a year because of delays in getting back digital analyses of devices,” Hunt said. “It is notorious within the British justice system, why cases are taking longer to be brought to a charging decision.”
Lawyers point to a 2004 court ruling that overturned the “grievous bodily harm” conviction of an amateur soccer player who seriously injured an opponent with an on-the-ball tackle. It said criminal prosecution should be reserved for conduct that is “sufficiently grave.”
In deciding if conduct reaches the criminal threshold “it has to be borne in mind that, in highly competitive sports, conduct outside the rules can be expected to occur in the heat of the moment,” the ruling added. “The type of sport, the level at which it is played, the nature of the act, the degree of force used, the extent of the risk of injury, the state of mind of the defendant are all likely to be relevant in determining whether the defendant’s actions go beyond the threshold.”
Prosecutions have been more common in “off-the-ball” scenarios such us punching, biting or head-butting.
An “on-the-ball” case that involved a rugby player being left partially paralyzed was handled in civil court. Natasha King wasn’t criminally charged despite dropping her body weight onto Dani Czernuszka-Watts, who was in a vulnerable position as she was about to pick up the ball in a 2017 match.
Czernuszka-Watts won her civil suit in which a former referee testified after watching video of the game that in his 60 years in rugby he had “never witnessed such a reckless incident.” The civil court judge had found that King had acted out of revenge built up from earlier in the match.
“Against those hallmarks, the fact that the incident would likely be considered ‘on the ball’ may have saved the injuring player from concurrent criminal prosecution,” attorney Henry Goldschmidt wrote in his analysis of criminal liability in sports.
Petgrave’s collision with Johnson was clearly “on the ball” because Johnson had the puck on his stick.
An incident in a hockey game in December 1995 led to a grievous bodily harm charge against Nicky Chinn, who played for the Steelers and was accused of purposely using his stick to injure an opponent’s eye. A jury found him not guilty.
The case is likely an involuntary manslaughter investigation in which “there has to be an unlawful act or negligence,” Hunt said, but prosecutors wouldn’t need to prove the intent to kill or cause serious bodily harm.
Gross negligence manslaughter is still involuntary but more complicated: “You owe a duty of care to someone else, and you are negligent in conduct and that gives rise to death due to your negligence,” Hunt added.
Voluntary manslaughter is more akin to a murder charge with clear intent to kill. The fact that Johnson wasn’t wearing a neck guard could prove legally significant.
“Given that it’s not up to him (the man under arrest) as to whether the other player wore a neck guard or not, then it will be, I imagine, quite difficult for the prosecution to prove to the requisite standard that he should be held criminally accountable,” Hunt said.
A week before an arrest was made, South Yorkshire coroner Tanyka Rawden issued a “ Prevention of Future Deaths ” report urging that neck guards be mandatory for all hockey players.
“In due course the inquest will consider whether the use of a neck guard or protector could have prevented Mr Johnson’s death. At this stage in my investigation however, I am sufficiently concerned that deaths may occur in the future if neck guards or protectors are not worn,” Rawden wrote.
The coroner’s inquest was suspended in January, a procedural move because the police investigation was ongoing.
There has been debate about player protections. Britain’s top league made neck guards mandatory last Jan. 1, two months after Johnson’s death.
The next key date is Nov. 11, when the man who was arrested would need to be re-bailed again. Petgrave, a 32-year-old Canadian, has not made any public statements and his agent declined to comment. Police have also declined to comment.
Teams around the league began recognizing the one-year mark by holding 47 seconds of applause before games this weekend.
The Panthers plan to hold a jersey retirement ceremony for Johnson’s No. 47 on Dec. 14.
