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Pakistani rescuers surround the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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Relatives mourn the deaths of their family members killed in a plane crash, outside a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)
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Pakistani rescuers surround the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo)
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Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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Pakistani rescue workers examine the site of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed Wednesday into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather, killing dozens of people and stoking fears nobody could have survived the disaster. (AP Photo)
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Volunteers push the dead body of a passenger on a stretcher at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)
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A Pakistani man mourns the death of his family member who was killed in a plane crash at Karachi airport in Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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Oil spews from a wellhead in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, after it was struck by a tugboat. A crew capable of capping the well is expected onsite later Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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A landslide sweeps aside buildings in the village of Wangong in Hanyuan county in Ya'an in southwest China's Sichuan province in this Tuesday, July 27, 2010, file photo. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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A business jet damaged in a landing lies at Wittman Regional Airport on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Oshkosh, Wis. NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in series but stable condition after walking away from the crash. (AP Photo/Oshkosh Northwestern, Anthony Wahl)
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In this undated photo released by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines in Tokyo, Japan's shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' tanker M. Star is shown. The Japanese shipping company said Wednesday, July 28, 2010, an explosion, suspected to be an attack, has damaged the oil tanker near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, causing one minor injury but did not cause an oil leak. (AP Photo/Mitsui O.S.K. Lines)
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The glow from a wildfire can be seen through the entrance to the small community known as Old West Ranch near the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., as residents were evacuated Tuesday July 27, 2010. More than 30 homes were lost in the small hill community of Old West Ranch and another 150 structures were threatened, firefighters said Tuesday. The area is about 70 miles north of Los Angeles. (AP Photo by Alex Gallardo)
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A tree fallen by Sunday's storm blocks a street in Silver Spring, Md., near Washington, Monday, July 26, 2010. It could take days to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people in and around Washington after a storm downed power lines and trees and left four people dead, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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** FILE ** Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney (right) and Jim Albaugh, chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, pose with a Boeing 787 after it landed for the first time outside the United States in Farnborough, England, on July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)
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Pakistani rescuers surround the wreckage of a plane that crashed with 152 people on board, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2008 file photo, NASCAR team owner Jack Roush speaks during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Media Tour in Concord, N.C. Roush is in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Wisconsin on Tuesday night July 27, 2010. Roush, an aviation buff, was attending the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., this week. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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SAFETY LAST? A photograph depicting the June 22, 2009, collision of two Metro trains in Northeast Washington that killed nine and injured 52 is shown at a hearing Tuesday on the National Transportation Safety Board's findings. (Associated Press)
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Nine people died when two Metro trains collided near the Fort Totten station in Washington, D.C. in 2009 “after the automatic train control system failed. ”With IoT, this likely would have been averted," writes Peter Lewis. (Photo: The Washington Times)
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NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman assails the safety-related shortcomings of the Washington Metrorail system at a Tuesday hearing on the findings of the board's probe of the deadly June 2009 train collision. (Associated Press)
