The flight left its gate at 2:55 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul at 4:36 p.m. local time before the flight crew followed the diversion instructions from the controllers, the airline said.
“It was a cataclysmic year and extreme cold badly hit livestock. It just devoured large number of baby goats,” he said. At about 15,000 feet altitude, the temperatures in the region can fall to minus 35 Celsius (-31 Fahrenheit) during long winter months.In 2011, Dorjey locked his stone house and left Kharnak for good. He painstakingly built his new life in Kharnakling and now drives a taxi for a living. The health of his daughter Dolma has improved while the two other children are studying.
“Ultimately, it boils down to safeguarding your family,” he said as he took a deep breath.“Urban life has brought its own issues and almost everything runs on money,” he said as he explained his earlier predicaments of new life. “Life was much easier there (in Kharnak) with all its hardships.”Konchok Dorjey sits inside a mud house of a neighbor in his remote, native Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Konchok Dorjey sits inside a mud house of a neighbor in his remote, native Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Nomad Gyaltsan Zangpo and village head, center, prepares dinner as his wife, sitting, prepares dough for bread inside their mud house kitchen in remote Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Nomad Gyaltsan Zangpo and village head, center, prepares dinner as his wife, sitting, prepares dough for bread inside their mud house kitchen in remote Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Dorjey’s wife, Sonam Kunkhen, expressed contentment about their flight from old village.The project’s price tag now exceeds $100 billion, more than triple the initial estimate. It has mostly been funded by the state through the voter-approved bond and money from the state’s cap-and-trade program. A little less than a quarter of the money has come from the federal government.
The authority has already spent about $13 billion. The state is now, and officials need to come up with a financing plan for the Central Valley segment by mid-2026, according to the inspector general’s office overseeing the project.
Garth Fernandez, Central Valley regional director for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, talks about the Cedar Viaduct, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Garth Fernandez, Central Valley regional director for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, talks about the Cedar Viaduct, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)