CNN — It’s only a week until Christmas, and Mechelle Lutsko is holding onto hope that her daughter, one of the hundreds of tourists stranded in Peru, will make it home in time. “I’ve been up all night worrying,” Lutsko told CNN Saturday from her home in Columbus, Ohio. “I’ll …
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An airline operator had to abandon take-off after horrified passengers were sent images of a plane crashing. Israeli authorities say passengers preparing to fly from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday, May 10 recieved cruel photos of crashed planes which caused some passengers to pass out with fright. The …
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