Tag: rescue

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 02:42 UTC

  First body recovered from Air France wreckage in seabed four kilometres deep

  

  An undersea recovery team has retrieved a first body from the wreck of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 with the loss of all 228 on board, French police said on Thursday.

• Friday, January 21st 2011 - 18:06 UTC

  Mountaineers Rescued on Aconcagua

  

  An Argentine and a Spaniard were reunited with their families in Mendoza city today after having been rescued from the Aconcagua mountain in Mendoza province, on the border with Chile overnight.

• Thursday, January 20th 2011 - 23:35 UTC

  Chilean Commission Finds Mines Owners Responsible for Collapse

  

  The Chilean commission investigating the mining disaster in the Atacama desert last year, has found the owners of the San Jose mine and the National Service of Geology and Mines responsible for the accident and the Chilean government free of any blame.

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 00:58 UTC

  US drillers who reached the miners receive heroes welcome

  

  Four United States drillers who helped free 33 Chilean miners from two months of confinement underground returned home to Colorado Saturday. The men were greeted by more than a dozen family members, who anxiously awaited their return.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:32 UTC

  Tuesday, should be Rescue Day for the 33 Chilean trapped miners

  

  Chilean rescue teams hope to start evacuating next Tuesday the 33 miners who have been trapped 700 metres underground for two months in a survival story that has gripped the world.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:27 UTC

  Chilean government says trapped miners could be out by mid-October

  

  While rescuers have insisted that the 33 Chilean trapped miners at San Jose mine will be evacuated in early November, the government has suggested that the rescue will most likely be as early as mid-October.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Chile celebrates contact with trapped miners; rescue “will take months”

  

  Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a northern Chile mine for the past 17 days are all alive, President Sebastian Piñera announced Sunday. Rescuers heard hammering noises when they sent a new probe into the mine.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Whisky Galore” rare bottle of Ballantine’s to be auctioned next August

  

  A rare bottle of whisky salvaged from a shipwreck, on which the novel and film Whisky Galore were based, is to go under the hammer in Scotland. The bottle of Ballantine's is thought to have been recovered from the wreck of SS Politician in the 1950s or 1960s.

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:35 UTC

  Rescued-hostage Ingrid Betancourt has sued Colombia for 6.8 million USD

  

  Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, who spent six years as a rebel hostage before being rescued, has sued the Colombian state over her kidnapping, sparking outrage from the government that freed her.