Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Pilots describe terrifying moment TUI flight 'hit a wall of rain' as it tried to land at Manchester Airport during thunderstorm
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPilots have described the terrifying moment they 'hit a wall of rain' as they tried to land at Manchester Airport during a thunderstorm.
The TUI flight from Zakynthos in Greece was forced to divert to Newcastle after the pilot and co-pilot lost suddenly sight of the runway as they made their descent.
In a serious incident report into the last-ditch aborted landing, the pilots described it 'all going black outside' as they hit a band of torrential rain while coming into land on June 12 last year.
But as they attempted to pull the Boeing 737 out of the descent a 'sudden loss of headwind' meant the plane's speed began 'rapidly reducing'.
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