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 IT was a crisis that no pilot could ever prepare for. At 17,000ft in the sky, the passenger jet's windscreen blew out - taking the captain with it. He would have been sucked out of the plane to a certain death had a quick-thinking air steward not grabbed his legs, while the first officer had to find a way to get the stricken aircraft safely on the ground as winds of 250 knots blew into his face. And all the while the horrified crew could see their Captain Tim Lancaster’s face and body smashing against the outside of the plane, leading them to believe there was no way he could survive. It sounds like a scene from a disaster movie. But this is the real-life terror that faced passengers and crew on BA flight 5390 from Birmingham to Malaga, which they have relived for Channel 5 show Terror At 30,000ft. Aviation expert John Walton tells the documentary: “The wind is rushing in at 250 miles an hour. "The Captain is stuck half in, half out of the aircraft, from the waist up, he’s ...

For some reason, there's a running theme in triangular shaped regions around the world which involves those who pass through them never being seen again. We've all been warned to avoid the Bermuda Triangle, where hundreds of planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared, at all costs, but not a lot of us are aware that there's a spot in Alaska we really ought to avoid too. Even though it's supposedly been the site of a whopping 20,000 disappearances, the 'Alaska Triangle' isn't talked about half as much as it's sister in the North Atlantic Ocean - but it should be. It's loosely defined as an area of wilderness between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau, which you apparently shouldn't head to unless you're taking ghosting to a new level. According to the History Channel, the eerie region is the site of more unsolved missing person cases than anywhere else in the world, as 20,000 people have vanished within the triangle since the early...

 Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With nearly half of the country’s population facing the risk of acute hunger, “we are targeting to cull 200 elephants,” Tinashe Farawo, a spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority stated on Monday. The move follows a decision in Namibia to cull elephants and other wild animals to relieve food insecurity fueled by a prolonged drought. The culls have drawn criticism from animal rights activists and conservationists. Recall that Zimbabwe is home to more than 84,000 elephants. Zimbabwe’s elephant population is the second-largest in the world, exceeded only by Botswana’s. Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni told parliamentarians last week that “Zimbabwe has more elephants than we need and more elephants than our forests can accommodate.” She added that overpopulation by elephants “causes a lack of resources” for their sustenance, which fuels human-w...

 A woman thought she was pregnant, but when the doctors looked at her stomach they realized the unbelievable for her husband. Trevion and Joani met in high school and immediately fell in love. Over the years the high school lovers gave birth to four beautiful girls together. The girls, who are now 20, 17, 10 and 8 year old, are the couple’s pride and the family of six are very close. But still, Trevion and Joani wanted to have another child. In 2009, the couple received news that would crush their dream to shreds. Joani was diagnosed with a medical problem which would prevent her from having more children. But seven years later, the same doctor who told Joani she couldn’t get pregnant again, told her and Trevion amazing news. Joanie was pregnant again, and it wasn’t a normal pregnancy … The couple met when they were in high school and immediately knew they met the person they wanted to spend the rest of their life with. Very short after, they decided to start a family. Over t...