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Passengers filmed pushing airplane off runway
The unusual sight of a group of people pushing an airplane off a runway has gone viral on social media.
Passengers at an airport in Nepal were filmed pushing the Tara Air plane lasst Wednesday. According to Nepal News, the plane’s rear tyre burst while landing at Bajura Airport in Kolti and was unable to move off the runway.
Meanwhile, another plane flying overhead was unable to land because the taxiway was blocked by the parked aircraft.
Noticing this, passengers at the airport joined security personnel in pushing the aircraft off the runway.
Footage showed a group of about 20 people working together to move the airplane off the runway.
Yeti Airlines spokesperson said with no infrastructure to drag the airplane to the other side, passengers joined airport officials to move the plane so flight operations could resume.
The other plane was able to land safely after the Tara Air plane was successfully moved out of the way. The plane’s punctured tyre was also replaced shortly afterward, according to officials. —ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
