Sailor claims seeing plane on fire
A woman who was sailing with her husband across the Indian ocean from India to Thailand claims she saw Malaysia Flight 370 approximately three months after it went missing.
I was on a night watch. My husband was asleep below deck and our one other crew member was asleep on deck. I saw something that looked like a plane on fire. That’s what I thought it was. Then, I thought I must be mad… It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before, so I wondered what they were.I could see the outline of the plane, it looked longer than planes usually do. There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind it. I looked back through our GPS logs and lo and behold, what we saw was consistent with the confirmed contact which the authorities had from MH370.
Jordan: elderly man dead
A 69-year-old Jordanian man dies after contracting the virus. An official at Jordan’s Health Ministry confirms :
The man, who suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, died in hospital on Wednesday. He died five days after he was admitted to hospital.
The official said the latest death brings to six the number of fatalities in Jordan from MERS since it first emerged in 2012.
Show banned
Youssef holds a press conference to say that his show was banned for the second time in less than a year. He says MBC channel, which airs his program, has been under extreme pressure to cancel the political satire program. His associates told Reuters that his latest show, never broadcast, had made fun of the low turnout in the presidential vote, the pro-Sisi media frenzy and women supporters dancing at polling stations.
I thank MBC Masr for hosting us and I can’t blame it for the pressures it had been put under. It was more than it could handle. Those who think there has not been pressure are delusional…We hope to live the day when we can do the show the way we want it, with no pressures.
An MBC group spokesman said the network had nothing to do with the decision to pull the show off air.