International, investigative and visual journalist at The New York Times. Lapsed astrophysicist. Ph.D. Princeton, formerly U. Colorado at Boulder, Science mag.
Joined July 2015
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We dedicate these investigative articles and the video to those who died in failed buildings in the Venezuela earthquakes; their loved ones; & engineers with the courage and determination to push for better standards in places like Chile, New Zealand, Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
Reporter video:
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The articles in Spanish:
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Exclusive. Structural drawings obtained from the city show the columns that buckled in a Midtown office tower should have been reinforced with steel plates.
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A building collapse in Manhattan? Well, at least two structural columns buckled. “It looks like the floor above could have dropped a foot or two, which is obviously not a good situation,” an engineer said.
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The way the Earth ripped apart, with a rupture that sped almost directly toward Caracas, was one of half a dozen factors that made Venezuela's earthquake especially destructive. With Helmuth Rosales & Marco Hernandez, edited by Anjali Singhvi.
New evidence suggests that after a struggle in the cockpit, a pilot deliberately dove a Boeing 737 into a hillside in China in 2022. All 132 people on board were killed.
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The pilots of Flight 2216 almost pulled off a "Miracle on the Hudson" after plowing into a gigantic flock of birds on their approach to a small airport in South Korea.
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Captain Sullenberger chose to emphasize how close the Korean pilots came to saving their plane, as he and his First Officer saved his. “Circumstances were with us," Captain Sullenberger said. "Circumstances were not with them.”