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Young Pilot Makes Masterful Emergency Landing On Loudoun County Parkway (UPDATE) Young Pilot Makes Masterful Emergency Landing On Loudoun County Parkway (UPDATE)
Young Pilot Makes Masterful Emergency Landing On Loudoun County Parkway (Update) A 27-year-old pilot masterfully landed a small plane on Loudoun County Parkway Friday, Jan. 19, officials said. Ahmed Awais, of Florida, was headed to Lancaster Airport in PA, and had just departed from Dulles Airport with Southern Airways Express Flight 246, when the plane went down in the DIREX lanes near Arcola Mills Drive, around 12:15 p.m., according to the FAA and local authorities. Southern Airways Express flight 9X246, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, force landed on Loudoun County Parkway roadway, two minutes after takeoff from runway 30 at Washington-Dulles International …

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by Zak Failla & Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police
PA Family Killed In I-81 VA U-Haul Crash: Police Shortly after friends said "drive safe & see you next time" to a Pennsylvania family, they received the news that all four members of the family had died in a crash on Interstate 81 in Virginia. A beloved grandmother, Douangpee Amnatkeo, 54, of Shippensburg, was driving a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox with her relatives Ericssan Kathpratoum, 13, Samiane Kothpratoum, 37, both of Shippensburg; and Monthy Matnopaseuth, 39, of Reading, in the passenger seats, while towing a U-Haul trailer back from the annual Lao New Year Festival at Wat Lao Buddharam in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, authorities said. …

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by Jillian Pikora