Disaster

Two US Navy Super Hornet fighter jets crashed off the coast of North Carolina into the Atlantic sea on Thursday.  The US Coast Guard confirmed that the crews on board the F-18s were recovered and taken to a nearby hospital. RT.com reports: Four people have been recovered and taken to the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginian-Pilot reported citing Coast Guard Petty Officer Fagal Nifin. Nifin said the extent of the crew members’ injuries is “unknown.” One of the crew had a leg injury, reported WCTI.

Kevin Sheehan claims he has been ordered to remove a fish pond from his back garden in Oxfordshire over fears it could pose a danger to burglars. He said he was told by Sovereign Housing Association that the pond posed a ” possible risk ” to members of the public because it is not clearly visible from the other side of his garden fence. They told Mr Sheehan that the measure had to be adopted because ‘if someone breaks in they could fall in’.

France may go dark tomorrow, but for residents of downtown Seattle elevators ground to a halt and lights went out across downtown Seattle late Wednesday morning as a major power outage struck. According to Komo News, the outage struck at about 11:30 a.m. The cause of the disruption was an equipment failure at Massachusetts Street Substation and was expected to last about two hours, according to Seattle City Light.

By now we are accustomed to hearing about US spy planes flying recon missions that are either infringing or extremely close to infringing on the borders of other countries - especially Russian borders.

The Russian Defense Ministry has called on the US Air Force to avoid endangering civilian passenger flights with their “unprofessional” actions. A US defense attache has been summoned after an incident over the Sea of Japan near Russia’s eastern borders, where an American spy plane was detected flying too close to civilian aircraft.