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Monday, 8 July 2013

Pilot of crashed Asiana plane was in 777 training

By Sarah McBride and Hyunjoo Jin

SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL (Reuters) - The pilot of the crashed Asiana plane at San Francisco International Airport was still in training for the Boeing 777 when he attempted to land the aircraft under supervision on Saturday, the South Korean airline said.
Lee Kang-kuk was the second most junior pilot of four on board the Asiana Airlines plane. He had 43 hours of experience flying the long-range jet, the airline said on Monday.
The plane's crew tried to abort the descent less than two seconds before it hit a seawall on the landing approach to the airport, bounced along the tarmac and burst into flames.
It was Lee's first attempt to land a 777 at San Francisco airport, although he had flown there 29 times previously on other types of aircraft, said South Korean Transport Ministry official Choi Seung-youn. Earlier, the ministry said Lee, who is in his mid-40s, had almost 10,000 flying hours.
Two teenage Chinese girls on their way to summer camp in the United States were killed and more than 180 people injured in the crash, the first fatal accident involving the Boeing 777 since it entered service in 1995.
The Asiana flight from Seoul to San Francisco, with 16 crew and 291 passengers, included several large groups of Chinese students.
Asiana said Lee Kang-kuk, whose anglicised name was released for the first time on Monday and differed slightly from earlier usage, was in the pilot seat during the landing. It was not clear whether the senior pilot, Lee Jung-min, who had clocked up 3,220 hours on a Boeing 777, had tried to take over to abort the landing.
"It's a training that is common in the global aviation industry. All responsibilities lie with the instructor captain," Yoon Young-doo, the president and CEO of the airline, said at a news conference on Monday at the company headquarters.
The plane crashed after the crew tried to abort the landing with less than two seconds to go, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said.
NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said information collected from the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated there were no signs of problems until seven seconds before impact, when the crew tried to accelerate.
A stall warning, in which the cockpit controls begin to shake, activated four seconds before impact, and the crew tried to abort the landing and initiate what is known as a "go around" manoeuvre 1.5 seconds before crashing, Hersman said.
She said the plane was "well below" the target air speed of 137 knots (157 miles per hour or 253 kph). "It wasn't just give or take a few knots," she told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show on Monday. "They were very slow in this critical phase of flight."
TRAGIC TWIST
In a tragic twist, the San Francisco Fire Department said one of the Chinese teenagers may have been run over by an emergency vehicle as first responders reached the scene.
"One of the deceased did have injuries consistent with those of having been run over by a vehicle," fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.
The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.
They were among a group of 30 students and five teachers from the school on their way to attend a summer camp in the United States, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Ye, 16, had an easy smile, was an active member of the student council and had a passion for biology, the Beijing News reported.
"Responsible, attentive, pretty, intelligent," were the words written about her on a recent school report, it said.
Wang, a year older than Ye, also was known as a good student and was head of her class, the newspaper said. The last post on Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging site, simply read in English; "go."
Twelve parents, including those of Ye and Wang, were due to leave China for San Francisco on Monday, Xinhua reported. The other students in Ye and Wang's group who are well enough to travel will return to China as the rest of their trip has now been cancelled, the People's Daily said on its official microblog.
More than 30 people remained hospitalized late on Sunday. Eight were listed in critical condition, including two with paralysis from spinal injuries, hospital officials said.
The charred aircraft remained on the airport tarmac as flight operations gradually returned to normal. Three of the four runways were operating by Sunday afternoon.
Hersman said it was too early to speculate on the cause of the crash. The data recorders corroborated witness accounts and an amateur video, shown by CNN, indicating the plane came in too low, lifted its nose in an attempt to gain altitude, and then bounced violently along the tarmac after the rear of the aircraft clipped a seawall at the approach to the runway.
Asiana said mechanical failure did not appear to be a factor. Hersman confirmed that a part of the airport's instrument-landing system was offline on Saturday as part of a scheduled runway construction project, but cautioned against drawing conclusions from that.
"You do not need instruments to get into the airport," she said, noting that the weather was good at the time of the crash and the plane had been cleared for a visual approach.
SERIOUS INTERIOR DAMAGE
The flight's passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Indians, three Canadians, one French, one Vietnamese and one Japanese citizen.
Pictures taken by survivors showed passengers hurrying out of the wrecked plane, some on evacuation slides. Thick smoke billowed from the fuselage and TV footage showed the aircraft gutted by fire. Much of its roof was gone.
Interior damage to the plane was extreme, Hersman said on CNN earlier on Sunday.
The NTSB released photos showing the wrecked interior cabin with oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling.
Hersman said the first emergency workers to arrive at the scene included 23 people in nine vehicles. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said a total of 225 first-responders were involved.
"As chaotic as the site was yesterday, I think a number of miracles occurred to save many more lives," Lee said at the airport news conference. Appearing later at San Francisco General Hospital, he declined to address whether one of the Chinese teenagers may have been run over.
It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the United States since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009.
Asiana, South Korea's junior carrier, has had two other fatal crashes in its 25-year history.
(Additional reporting by Gerry Shih, Alistain Barr, Sarah McBride, Ronnie Cohen, Poornima Gupta, Laila Kearney, Dan Levine, Jonathan Weber, Peter Henderson, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg in New York, Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Laura MacInnis in Washington; Editing by David Chance, Raju Gopalakrishnan and Bill Trott

LUTH acquires scanner that detects death in 10 seconds

Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH said they have acquired a CT scan equipment that has the capacity to run a check on all organs of the body, from head to toe in less than 10 seconds and fish out a patients death points for immediate treatment. The machine, called the 128-slice Aquillon CT scanner is the first of it's kind in West Africa.

Speaking on the machine, the Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Professor Akin Osibogun told Nigerian Tribune:
"The Aquillon CT scanner is a 128-scanner and the main advantage it has over other CT scanners of earlier generations is its ability to penetrate deeper into the tissues and organs to show clearly the state of those tissues and organs. Of course the CT scanner is an imaging device and because it is able to provide images of tissues and organs inside the body. We are able to see the state in which those tissues and organs are and we are able to make diagnosis that help us to provide appropriate treatment for the patients.

"I am first an actor before an evangelist' - Eucharia Anunobi declares

She may be doing the work of God now as an evangelist but that doesn't mean she's quit acting. Evangelist Eucharia Anunobi explains on her Facebook page

I am first, an actor, before becoming an evangelist, which God has made me right now. Acting is and will continue to be my first ministry and I am not a former actress. For those who are of the wrong opinion or would I say impression that Eucharia Anunobi has taken a break from acting, this is to inform you that I have two movies out in the market right now - The Most Wanted and Windows Gang.

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Tiannah Styling CEO Toyin Lawani shows off hot bikini body

Two benefits of dating a younger hot dude: One, you have no choice, you have to look good always! To keep up! And two, it can be a big boost to your self-esteem. Rock on, Ms Lawani! Hot bod!

Tonto Dikeh reacts to NDLEA jail term threat

The photos are still up on Instagram, take them down biko! See more Tweets after the cut...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

INTERVIEW WITH PAUL OMORUYI THE DIRECTOR OF THE MOVIE "THE MIND-GAME"

COURTESY NOLLYWOODGOSSIP
NG: Hello sir, good morning, I am Perry Martins the new editor of nollywoodgossip
Paul Omoruyi: Ok, Goodmorning
NG: Just wanted to ask a few questions about the movie “THE MIND GAME”. But for the benefit of our readers, can we get to meet you?
Paul Omoruyi: My name is Paul Omoruyi, I am a film maker, Entrepreneur and An Artist by training (painter)
NG: I understand you are the producer of the movie?
Paul Omoruyi: Yea, Am the producer and the Director.
NG: You don’t mind if I interview you here, right?
Paul Omoruyi: Not at all
NG: Is it a movie or a television series?
Paul Omoruyi: The mind-game is a short film
NG: What’s should we expect in this movie? I mean what’s the story?
Paul Omoruyi: The Mind-Game is a movie that deals on our mindset, actions and the consequences of wrong thoughts which is insecurity and fear. In this movie. A long relationship could be dashed to the wind for lack of trust. The movie is starring Portia Yammaha, Lurrenz Onuzulike, Meg masha and others.
NG: I like the angle of the story. Have you any previous works? I mean movies.
Paul Omoruyi: Yea before now, I have done JAMBITOS BAG (2011) and my last movie was LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH (2012), and this year I have a couple of full length movies to shoot.
NG: And my last question is, when is the movie premiering and where?
Paul Omoruyi: The movie will premiere in August but the date is not yet fixed but as soon as it’s ready I will keep you updated. The movie is planned to feature in film festivals around the world so it’s a movie to watch out for.
NG: Thank you for your time.

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Omotola paid $650,000 to earn a slot on Times 100 influential list??

Hmmmmn..I found this allegation unbelievable but decided to share. According to blogger, Sheifunmi,our very own Omosexy bought her way into the 2013 Times most influential list with a whooping $650,000 which is about a 100 million naira. If you recall, Sheifunmi had big twitter rows with Davido and Wizkid when he published stories that Davido's dad was dating a young Uni lag girl and claimed Wizkid is disrespectful to his mum...

I just feel if Omotola has 100million naira, would she use it in gaining a slot on the times list? Seriously....

Before you decide, read Sheifunmi's allegation below

"Before we get into it and stans or celebrities with mild relevance start coming at me with a bullet-less gun thinking they have a shot, let’s get one thing out of the way; This is a gossip type website. Any information contained on this site is reported as rumor and not actual facts unless receipts(proofs) are shown, official news/confirmation from a celeb’s rep/camp or i am talking about my own experiences. Do not take offense to any material on this site because everyone has the right to their side of the story. I am willing to hear all sides. Anyone in this industry, including myself will be subject to being put on blast. What you see is what you get! This is all for your own entertainment purposes… Now moving on.

An insider who happens to work closely with the most loved actress squealed details about Omotola making 2013 TIME Magazine 100 (Most Influential People in the World) list, stating that the actress paid a whooping sum of 650,000 dollars (which is over a 100 million naira if converted) to get a slot on that list.

Now i don’t know how true this is but i won’t find it amusing if she paid to make the list. Rich people (especially Nigerians) tend to pay for a lot of things (like Grammy,MTV,Bet award tickets which comes in different packages but the one they mostly go for is the full package with the hotel covered, access to Clive David’s pre-grammys party, red carpet, a seat next to a celebrity and after party, Forbes list, etc) to get recognised or live that ‘party with celebrities’ lifestyle."