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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)
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An animation video depicting the June 22, 2009, collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people, is shown during a hearing at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, on the investigation findings and safety issues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A photograph depicting the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people is shown during a hearing at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, during a hearing on the investigation findings and safety issues (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Deborah Hersman presides at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator Ruben Payan answers questions at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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An animation video depicting the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people, is shown during a hearing at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, on the investigation findings and safety issues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Unidentified audience members watch an animation video depicting the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in Washington, during a hearing at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the investigation findings and safety issues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert L. Sumwalt asks questions at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) holds a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people, Tuesday, July 27, 210, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The wreckage of a Lufthansa cargo plane that caught fire and split in half as it was landing lies on the tarmac in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were slightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 22, 2001, photo, the last plane built under the McDonnell Douglas name, an MD-11, which was assembled at the Boeing Co. plant in Long Beach, Calif., and purchased by Lufthansa Cargo, lifts off from Long Beach Airport. A similar Lufthansa MD-11 cargo plane caught fire and split in half as it was landing on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. The German pilot and co-pilot were slightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo/Press-Telegram, Marilynn Young, File)
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Fire engines (far left) line up behind the wreckage of a Lufthansa cargo plane that caught fire and split in half as it was landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were slightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)
