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** FILE ** A Tupolev 154 comes in for a landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport in 1996. A similar Tupolev 154 suffered an electrical system failure Tuesday and made an emergency landing, ending up in a forest in northern Russia. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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A wildfire burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010. Authorities said Tuesday night they counted 92 structures that have been destroyed and another eight that have been damaged. (AP Photo/ Matt McClain)
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In this photo provided by Eric Peter Abramson, a line of buses are destroyed after a wild fire passed through Gold Hill, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency Tuesday as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/Eric Peter Abramson)
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A spotter plane and large slurry bomber past over a burning home in Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency Tuesday as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Mark Leffingwell)
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A firefighting helicopter flies over a plume of smoke from a wildfire west of Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Kathryn Scott Osler)
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A group of Sunshine residents discuss the fate of their homes before Gov. Bill Ritter and Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle spoke to the media and concerned residents at a staging area in Boulder, Colo., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, after concluding a tour of the fire area. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Craig F. Walker)
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Homeowner Phil Helper listens to a group of Sunshine residents discuss the fate of their homes at a staging area in Boulder, Colo., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter spoke media and concerned residents at the staging area after he and Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle concluded a tour of the fire area. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Craig F. Walker)
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Dee Spencer, right, who lost her home in a wildfire near Boulder, Colo., on Monday is comforted by Beth Byerlein after a briefing on the fire in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Firefighters are fighting the blaze that forced the evacuation of over 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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A slurry bomber works against the wildfire near Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has declared a state of emergency as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point, the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/Daily Camera, Paul Aiken)
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Debris crush a car outside the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral after an earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake hit at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Wethey) NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO ARCHIVES, NO SALES
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A prison construction project north of Baghdad shows no signs of being completed any time soon, and the inspector general says, "It will never hold a single Iraqi prisoner." (Associated Press)
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A $165 million children's hospital in Basra has not opened because of problems connecting to the electricity grid. (Associated Press)
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A wastewater treatment plant in Fallujah is almost finished, at a cost more than three times the original estimate and four years past the original deadline. (Associated Press)
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Workers clean up a pile of debris from a collapsed metal building, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in Raymondville, Texas, after Tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A car passes by a stop sign, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas, after tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Dr. Dan Ivankovich, left, helps his patient Bazelais Suy blow out the candles during Suy's birthday party Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this photo taken Feb. 24, 2010, Bazelais Suy rests next to a motivational sign after attempting to stand at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, as he recovers from surgery to repair his shattered spine. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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In this photo taken Feb. 24, 2010, Bazelais Suy grimaces in pain as he attempts to stand at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago while recovering from surgery to repair his shattered spine. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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In this photo taken Feb. 24, 2010, a therapist helps Bazelais Suy stand with parallel bars at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago while recovering from surgery to repair his shattered spine. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
