Disaster_Accident

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Federal Aviation Administration officials investigate the scene of a plane crash in Payson, Utah on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Authorities say the small plane has crashed into a house in Utah, killing the pilot. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)

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Workers wearing yellow hard hats are seen at upper right from the air Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, near Steilacoom, Wash., at the site on Ketron Island in Washington state where an Horizon Air turboprop plane crashed Friday after it was stolen from Sea-Tac International Airport. Investigators were working to find out how an airline employee stole the plane and crashed it after being chased by military jets that were quickly scrambled to intercept the aircraft. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne shoots against the Seattle Storm in a 100-77 win over the Seattle Storm on Thursday at Capital One Arena. (Arturo Holmes/Special to The Washington Times).

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses while speaking during a meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Lee Petty, center, 50-year-old head of the most successful family in stock car racing, and his sons look into empty engine well of a new race car on July 15, 1964. In the shop with Petty at Level Cross, NC are Maurice, left, 25, an occasional driver whose main job is building engines and helping pit crews, and Richard, 26, the family's no. 1 driver since 1961 when Lee was crippled in an accident at the Daytona International Speedway. (AP Photo)

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Illustration on flood insurance by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Screen capture from "The Unchained Goddess," a 1958 education video produced by Frank Capra which warned that manmade global warming could melt polar ice caps and dramatically flood significant portions of the United States. (YouTube)

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SpaceX Venture Crashes to Earth Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on economic growth and hazards to sustaining it by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Popping Balloon Patent Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Rodney Downs of New Orleans, La., watches as sand recovered from Superstorm Sandy is filtered of debris at Jacob Riis State Park in the Rockaways, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in New York. Downs is an employee of Environmental Chemical Corporation, a private contractor hired by the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clean up after Hurricane Katrina and now Superstorm Sandy. The company is cleaning up construction debris, discarded personal items and over 100,000 cubic yards of sand. After filtration for debris, the sand is being returned to the beach. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Shelters at Fortitude Ranch, in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains, will serve as shelter should a cataclysmic event impact the Earth. (Gabe LaMonica/Special to The Washington Times)

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Safe Space Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Image courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute, a federal agency within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Human Rights Emergency Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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David L. Gadis, general manager and CEO of D.C. Water, addresses the press early Friday afternoon outside the Bryant Street Pumping Station in the Northwest of the city. An open valve at the pumping station Thursday evening caused a drop in pressure threatening bacteria contamination of the city's drinking water for an estimated 34,000 customers. (The Washington Times/Laura Kelly)

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The Bryant Street Pumping Station in Northwest D.C. is where an open valve caused flowing water to stand still for about an hour on Thursday evening, raising fears of contamination. (The Washington Times/Laura Kelly)

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Navy sailors are dismissed after a rededication ceremony for the USS John S. McCain at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, Thursday, July 12, 2018. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer dedicated one of two destroyers involved in fatal accidents in the Pacific last year to Sen. John McCain. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)