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Taca Airlines officials give varying stories about nine-hour plane diversion

12/21/08 20:49

Problems can happen with flights, such as being stranded and forced arrivals to midpoint cities.

However, I find it difficult to understand why should passengers suffer a lot while inside the train with little provisions to take care of them. It is rather irresponsible for airport officials to not practice protocols when such situations occur.

This is the case of the Taca International Airlines flight from El Salvador to Los Angeles. Now the officials are giving different stories.

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Peru to produce industrial fertilizer from natural gas

If Peru wants to increase its income and add some value to its natural gas reserves, it should develop its petrochemical industry and produce a lot of fertilizer that it can export to countries needing it, says a projection made by PeruPetro, Peru's state gas and oil promotion agency.

Right now, Peru still imports 100% of its fertilizer requirements from its neighboring nations.

News: petroleumworld

Peruvian Rock Sculptures

Bill Veall, a British discoverer used the latest satellite imaging techniques to search the Peruvian mountains for look for ancient shapes and formation carved into the Andean Cordillera region. His discovery has already faced a series of doubters and said that it is just an elaborate hoax. This is about to be proven now that he obtained the permission to to carry out a real time flyover of the sites for more analysis.

News: British Archaeoastronomer To Prove Claims About World's Largest Rock Formations Found In Peru | UK News | Sky News

Peru's Ancient Cloud People Found

The lost city of the Cloud Forest People is found perched on a mountainside in the northern side jungles of Amazon in Peru which is estimated to be over a thousand years old.

Archaeologists found undisturbed burial grounds and ceramics, they say that the remoteness of site protected itself from looters and treasure hunters.

Early Spanish texts describe these Cloud People as ferocious fighters but were wiped out by small pox and other diseases brought by Europeans.

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