Deriba Merga of Ethiopia aims for North American marathon mark
When officials invited Deriba Merga to this year’s race in Houston, they told him they’d like him to break the 20-year-old record. But he has something just a tad grander.
Day: January 17, 2009
Ethiopian Airlines jet ditching in 1996 yielded survival lessons for NYC crash
Lessons learned from Ethiopian Airlines’ successful ditching in 1996 helped the pilot save 155 lives when he put his US Airways A320 jetliner down in the Hudson River.