Month: August 2013
Ex-Microsoft Exec, 2 children feared dead in plane crash
Update:Â Bill Henningsgaard, a former Microsoft executive, and his son were aboard a turboprop airplane that crashed Friday morning into two houses in East Haven, Connecticut, a family member told CNN.
A twin-engine turboprop airplane crashed into two houses in the southern Connecticut town of East Haven on Friday morning, leaving two dead and one missing, officials told reporters.
Feared dead were two children -- ages 1 and 13 -- in one house, as well as the pilot, East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. said. The other house was unoccupied.
Two bodies can be seen inside the home but haven't been recovered because the home is unstable, East Haven Fire Chief Douglas Jackson said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Fire that consumed both houses prevented them from searching for victims, Jackson said, and the basement in the home holding at least two victims now filled with water. They are waiting for NTSB to arrive in a few hours to continue searching, he said.
Maturo said the children were in one house with their mother when the plane struck shortly before 11:30 a.m., Maturo said, adding that the mother escaped.
"It's ... total devastation in the back of the home," Maturo said.
The multi-engine Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B took off from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport on Friday morning and crashed while approaching the Tweed New Haven Airport around 11:25 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane missed its initial approach, which isn't uncommon, said Tweed's airport manager Lori Hoffman-Soares.
The neighborhood is about a half mile from the airport. One resident said the accident wasn't surprising.
"They fly in very low, and a lot of times you can hear the engine cut of before it gets to the runway," she told CNN affiliate WTIC.
The mayor said the airport's close proximity to residents isn't unusual.
"It's always a concern, but it's something that happens in every airport," Maturo said.
Neither the pilot's identity nor information about how many people were in the plane was immediately available.
The fuselage entered one of the homes, Malloy said. Video from WTNH showed smoke rising from a heavily damaged house in East Haven, and what appeared to be the tail of a plane nearby.
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iPhone helps T-Mobile from loosing customers
After steadily losing customers for years, T-Mobile had a total of 1.1 million customer net additions in its second quarter of fiscal 2013, with much of that success attributed to the addition of Apple's iPhone.
T-Mobile's second quarter, the results of which were reported on Thursday, was the company's strongest growth in four years. The company touted the successful launch of Apple's iPhone 5, as well as its new Simple Choice and Jump plans.
The iPhone debuted on T-Mobile, America's fourth-largest wireless carrier, in April, going on to sell 500,000 units in less than a month. T-Mobile revealed on Thursday that the iPhone has accounted for about 29 percent of the carrier's branded gross customer additions and upgrade smartphone sales, excluding MetroPCS, since its launch.
T-Mobile has attempted to differentiate itself from the competition with an initiative dubbed "Un-carrier." The company was the first to offer an early upgrade program for its customers — a plan that was quickly followed by both Verizon and AT&T.
"T-Mobile's Un-carrier approach has clearly resonated with consumers. By fixing the things that drive them mad, like contracts and upgrades, and freeing them from the two-year sentences imposed on them by our competitors, they are choosing the new T-Mobile in unprecedented numbers," said T-Mobile President and Chief Executive John Legere. "We are just beginning and we will continue to apply this innovative thinking to the Un-carrier offers we create and to the internal operations of our company, which taken together are driving significant shareholder value creation."
Last week, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated that the addition of Apple's iPhone may have kept 400,000 customers from leaving T-Mobile last quarter. The survey also found that 28 percent of T-Mobile subscribers planning to change devices in the next year say they will choose the iPhone.
T-Mobile was the last major carrier in the U.S. to gain access to Apple's iPhone. Previous losses seen by the company were attributed in large part to the lack of the iPhone, which is the most popular smartphone in America.
Via: AppleInsider.com