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 NBC announced Thursday night that NASCAR analyst Dale Earnhardt Jr. he will skip Saturday's broadcast of the Big Cup race in Bristol after he, his wife and their little daughter escaped serious injury in a plane crash earlier in the day at a small airport in Elizabethton, Tenn. Dale, Amy and Isla Earnhardt were on the private jet, n8jr in the queue, flying two pilots when it ran off the Elizabethton runway and caught fire. Kelley Earnhardt, Dale's sister, tweeted shortly after that the family was safe and had been taken to the hospital for evaluation. "We are incredibly grateful that Dale, his wife Amy, their daughter Isla and the two pilots are safe after today's accident," an NBC spokesperson said in a statement. "After being discharged from the hospital, we communicated with Dale and his team, and we all agreed that he should be taken this weekend to be with his family. We hope to have it back on the stand next month in Darlington.” Earnhardt will miss o...

 A U.S. military plane crashed Monday in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan, killing both passengers on board, according to NPR, after earlier reports said there were up to 100 casualties and that the plane was a commercial plane. CBS News reported that the plane crashed in Ghazni province, about 100 miles south of Kabul. According to Reuters, a spokesman for the US Armed Forces confirmed that the plane was an E-11A military aircraft, and that "there was no indication that the accident was caused by enemy fire.” The Associated Press reported that the US military is investigating the crash, and that it is unclear who the plane belonged to. Local officials initially believed the plane belonged to state-owned operator Ariana Airlines, but a Facebook page allegedly run by the company published a strongly worded denial. According to CBS News, Afghanistan's Civil Aviation Authority said it received no reports of a civilian plane crashing, meaning the plane could have been a m...

 An estimated 176 passengers and crew died after a Boeing 737-800NG plane operated by Ukraine International Airlines crashed ten minutes after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport on Wednesday. Flight PS 752, bound for Kiev, took off from Tehran at 6:12 a.m. local time, but came down minutes later around the city of Parand, according to a spokesman for Imam Khomeini airport. FlightRadar 24 shows the flight path of the Boeing plane that ended near the suburb of Tehran. There were no survivors of the accident. The Ukrainian Embassy in Iran previously claimed that the three-year-old plane crashed due to engine failure, but this has not yet been confirmed. The engines of the 737 - 800NG are supplied by CFM International, owned by General Electric and Safran of France. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said that Iranians, Canadians, Germans, Ukrainians, Afghan citizens, British and Swedish citizens were killed. UIA is working to clarify the exact number of people on boa...

 Swedish emergency services have confirmed that nine people have died following a small plane crash in northern Sweden on Sunday (14 July) in the afternoon. Research looks at smartphones The National Air Accident Investigation Board has begun its official investigation. They are currently examining victims ' smartphones to look for relevant altitude and position data, as there is no flight data recorder on small aircraft. The shipwreck will soon be transferred to its National Laboratory. It crashed shortly after takeoff Emergency services received a call shortly after 2pm local time. The plane took off at 1.30 pm from Umeå airport on Sweden's East Coast and crashed on Storsandskar island into a river about 1.5 miles south of the city shortly afterwards. The cause is not yet known. "We are already at the scene with a rescue team that is assisting the ambulance and have opened a location, along with relief organizations, to provide psychological and social care," said ...

 A smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party started the El Dorado fire in California's San Bernardino County this weekend, local fire department officials said in a statement Monday: it's not the only gender reveal to start a fire or cause other chaos. Here are other gender-revealing stunts that have gone terribly wrong. ABOUT US-CALIFORNIA-FIRE San Miguel County firefighters fight a fire in Jamul, California on September 6, 2020. GETTY IMAGES CHRONOLOGY April 2017dennis Dickey started a 47,000-acre wildfire in Arizona that cost más 8.2 million for more than 800 firefighters to extinguish after firing a target containing an explosive substance intended to reveal blue or pink dust, according to the Arizona Daily Star. April 2017A couple in Iowa fired a gun at a gender reveal set they purchased that was filled with an explosive intended to reveal colored dust, but the explosion reverberated and shook homes more than two miles away, the fire department sa...

 One of the most affected industries affected by Covid-19 is airlines. At the beginning of the virus outbreak, governments warned potential passengers about the health risks associated with air travel, and then ordered them to stop all unnecessary flights. When people realized the terrible consequences associated with the disease, they decided to avoid traveling. Boeing, the legendary major American aircraft manufacturer, took the brunt of grounding the planes. Airliners didn't have to buy new planes because of the almost nonexistent demand. The abandonment of its previous best-selling 737 Max jet in March 2019, after two fatal crashes that killed 346 people, hurt sales. The current and immediate climate is not conducive to air travel. Europe and other regions are experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, and it looks like the United States will too. Boeing expects travel to die out over the next few years due to the pandemic. As the planmaker loses cash—Boeing repor...

 A number of kitchen cabinet ingredients have found unlikely uses for improving the efficiency of solar panels. Solar cell scientist John Major explains why. From fizzy drinks to sweeter chips, many inventions are famous for their unusual and often closely guarded ingredients, but solar panels aren't usually at the top of this list. However, some food ingredients were unexpectedly useful when added to solar panels. Depending on what you like to eat, there's a good chance you can find at least one of them at home. Capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers a sharp sting, has been found to improve perovskite solar cells – the devices that make up solar panels. The addition of capsaicin expands the grains that make up the active material of the solar cell, allowing it to transport electricity more efficiently. More importantly, the material goes from a shortage of electrons to an excess, which changes how the cell works and allows more sunlight to be converted into electric...