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A recall by two separate companies for similar safety issues are under way as of earlier this month, reports say, for  drawstrings designs that apparently have become a strangulation issue. Although no accidents or injuries have been reported with regard to either of these products, both companies have evidently decided to heed the Consumer Products Safety Commission’s guidelines to prevent children from strangling themselves or becoming entangled on the strings of the jackets. The law actually dates back to May…

A 57-year-old Nigerian woman died on a recent Delta airline flight from Lagos to Atlanta, reports say. The woman died about an hour before the flight landed at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The identity of the passenger had not been released as of the date of this writing. Both the FBI and Delta Airlines have refused to discuss the case other than to say there appeared to be no foul play nor negligence involved. But other details are scarce….

  A ski lift accident at Devil’s Head resort near the Town of Merrimac, Wisconsin recently left several riders injured.   The chair lift, which was reportedly full of passengers, allegedly stopped and began going backward at a high rate of speed. Some riders jumped off their seats, sustaining injuries and requiring emergency crews. Local hospital staff reportedly treated 14 people for injuries in connection with the incident, with two seriously injured enough to be kept overnight for observation, including…

A passenger died while in-flight on an American Airlines flight recently, with the victim’s family claiming the crew ignored her pleas, reports say. The victim, Carine Desir, 44, died after a nearly-full Haiti-to-New York flight after complaining of not feeling well and being very thirsty after she ate a meal. The flight home from Port-au-Prince to John F. Kennedy International Airport took a turn for the worst when she then claimed she was having trouble breathing. She asked for oxygen,…

A tandem bungee jump turned to tragedy when a young couple plunged more than 200 feet to their deaths from a bridge recently. Reports say a set of snap-hooks failed when Tiziana Accorra, a 26-year-old university student from Rome, and boyfriend Alberto Galletti, 25, from Siena and a member of Italy’s elite Folgore army parachute regiment, leapt from the bridge together. The jump occurred at the Polino Jumping Centre, near Arrone in Umbria’s Valnerina valley. Although the jump facility had…