Tucano T1 plane wrongly leading to overcooking the turbo during his training stint with air force last year, CNN has reported. This could have damaged the plane but it didn’t happen. Britain’s Daily Mail has repoeted the incident. “He flicked the wrong switch on shutdown and overcooked the turbo,” Watt told the paper. “I think he switched it back on.

It is a variant of Short Tucano T1. The Short Tucano was developed by the British Short Brothers company in order to meet a requirement to replace the Jet Provost as the basic trainer for the RAF, as laid down in Air Staff Target 412. It is an adaptation of the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano fitted with the more powerful 1,100 shp (820 kW) Garrett turboprop engine in place of the EMB-312’s 750 shp (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine, to give higher climb performance.

(AGI) - Londra, 14 apr. - Ha premuto l'interruttore sbagliato e ha mandato in fumo il motore da un milione di sterline del suo aereo. La disavventura e' capitata lo scorso anno al principe William durante le 12 settimane di addestramento da pilota della Royal Air Force. Il primogenito del principe di Galles ha bruciato il motore del suo 'Short Tucano T1', turboelica da addestramento al combattimento derivato da un aereo brasiliano.

Bay News 9

Bay News 9 was honored with a prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award for best breaking news coverage for its continuous reporting on a tanker truck explosion along Interstate 75 last year. The award given by the Society of Professional Journalists recognizes the best in professional journalism in 53 categories.

Bay News 9 competed against stations in the top 50 U.S. markets, including New York City and Los Angeles. The station was given the award based on its coverage of a June 2008 accident that killed the driver of a tanker truck, which careened off the I-75 bridge at U.S. Highway 301. Bay News 9 is a 24-hour local news channel serving over 1 million cable households in the Tampa Bay area, including Manatee County.

MANATEE — Manatee County is seeking five members for the Tourist Development Council advisory board. Members of the board will serve in an advisory capacity to the Manatee County Commission. Four of the members will be hoteliers and one will be an interested citizen. Applications for the positions are being sought by July 10. Those interested in applying should contact Monica Luff of the Bradenton Area Convention & Visitors Bureau at 729-9177.

Nancy Shevell

Nancy Shevell beamed for hundreds of cameras in London's Leicester Square, a green silk jacket on one arm and Paul McCartney on the other. The 49-year-old trucking heiress dazzled on the red carpet at a movie premiere with the ex-Beatle, her boyfriend of 18 months. Two days later, Shevell shielded herself behind a colleague, turning away from cameras recording a Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting where she cast a vote to raise city subway fares 25 percent.

Few who have seen Shevell photographed in Israel, Antigua and at the Grammy Awards with McCartney know of her other life as an executive at a New Jersey trucking company and board member of the nation's largest mass transit agency. But her public and behind-the-scene personas have collided more and more since the socialite began seeing McCartney in the Hamptons in late 2007.

Since January 2008, Shevell has missed four full board meetings, more than any voting member, according to MTA meeting minutes reviewed by The Associated Press. She attended one Finance Committee meeting in the past year, and has 26 absences total, according to the agency's records. Shevell skipped an MTA committee meeting approving a controversial fare hike the day she walked the red carpet in London. Since early 2008, the unpaid appointee has the worst attendance of any voting board member, sometimes missing meetings to travel around the world with McCartney.