Top Gun: Maverick—the sequel to the 1986 blockbuster that established Tom Cruise as an international action star—surpassed $1-billion in worldwide box-office earnings. So says the film’s maker, Paramount Studios. In a career spanning north of forty-years, Cruise has put up some big numbers. Neither Interview With the Vampire, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, nor the Mission Impossible franchise were box-office slouches—but none powered past the billion-dollar milestone as Maverick has.
NTSB Investigators Examine Wreckage of Historic Helicopter
A team of NTSB investigators has arrived in Logan, West Virginia for purpose of beginning the investigation of a 22 June 2022 accident involving a Bell UH-1B helicopter. Six lives were lost when the helicopter went down in the Kelly Mountain area along state Route 17 shortly before 17:00 EDT. The tail section of the Vietnam-era Huey came to rest in the highway, while the helicopter’s forward section appeared to have crashed through the thoroughfare’s guardrail and into the adjacent hillside.
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