A group of teachers, staff and parents from Agricola Elementary School (AES) say they’re disappointed in the school board and the direction of the district after a sudden leadership change at the school.
we have breaking news to tell you about here on cnn and it involves an airliner apparently from jfk airport. reports of a fire on board. now, here we re being told that the plane is on the ground, though, at jfk. the reports and the details here are very slow to come in, but we want to get the very best information to you so we want to go to our national correspondent in the new york area and that s cnn s susan candiotti. susan, what flight is it? do we know? is it delta, is it american, what s going on? reporter: yeah, don, first of all, the good news is that the plane has landed safely. we just learned that moments ago. now, let s back it up. this was a delta airlines flight that was had just taken off from jfk and heading to moscow. there are unconfirmed reports of about 200 people on board that plane. according to an airport source, we are told that there was a possible engine flameout involved, not all of the engines, but one engine on the plane and, apparently, what
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