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Airplane crashes into ocean in Micronesia
Transport Related articles 29 September 2018: Airplane crashes into ocean in Micronesia 21 March 2018: Uber suspends...

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano releases ash plumes to 30,0...
Sunday, May 20, 2018 United States Related articles 20 May 2018: Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano releases ash plumes to 30...

Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestr...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Disasters and accidents Related articles 21 March 2018: Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States 7 March 2018: Winter storm fells US President George Washington's tree at Mount Vernon estate, Virginia 24 February 2018: Bus crash in Ocoña District of Peru costs over 40 lives 21 Feb...

Bus crash in Ocoña District of Peru costs over 40 lives
Disasters and accidents Related articles 24 February 2018: Bus crash in Ocoña District of Peru costs over 40 lives 21 February 2018: Iran: Wreckage found of plane crashed in mountains; all believed dead 15 February 2018: United States: Jet loses engine cover over Pacific en route to Honolulu from San Francisco 7 February 2018: United States: Two killed, mor...

Iran: Wreckage found of plane crashed in mountains; ...
Yesterday, the Iranian military announced the wreckage of an Aseman Airlines airplane, which went missing on Sunday morning shortly before it was due to land in Yasuj, had been located at an elevation of about 13,000 feet (4,000 m) in the Zagros Mountains. All 65 people on board were presumed dead. Crews were searching for the aircraft's two black boxes to try...

United States: Jet loses engine cover over Pacific e...
The Boeing 777-200 two-engine jet left San Francisco International Airport shortly after 9:00 am PST (1700 UTC) and was flying the scheduled United Flight 1175 when there was a sound described by one passenger, Maria Falaschi, as "a big bang". Pieces of the right-side engine assembly could be seen blowing in the wind. Passengers said the plane landed 40 or 45 ...

United States: Two killed, more than a hundred injur...
The two killed were 54-year-old engineer Michael Kempf of Savannah, Georgia, and 36-year-old conductor Michael Cella of Orange Park, Florida. Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told a press conference the passenger train had been diverted into a siding by a switch left "literally locked, with a padlock" in that position. The...

Airborne sedan smashes into dental office in Santa A...
Disasters and accidents Related articles 16 January 2018: Airborne sedan smashes into dental office in Santa Ana, California, US 16 January 2018: United States: State of Hawaii criticized by head of Federal Communications Commission over incoming missile alert mistake 15 January 2018: Turkey: Aircraft skids off runway toward Black Sea 11 January 2018: Unite...

Turkey: Aircraft skids off runway toward Black Sea
Disasters and accidents Related articles 15 January 2018: Turkey: Aircraft skids off runway toward Black Sea 11 January 2018: United States: At least fifteen dead in Southern California after rain causes mudslides and floods 4 January 2018: England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed 3 January 2018: Scaffolding collap...

United States: At least fifteen dead in Southern Cal...
Disasters and accidents Related articles 11 January 2018: United States: At least fifteen dead in Southern California after rain causes mudslides and floods 4 January 2018: England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed 3 January 2018: Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen 26 December 2017: Russia: Runaway bus kills at lea...

Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen
In Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday, the first day in the new year, scaffolding at the corner of Randersgade and Koldinggade collapsed at about 13:00 local time (1200 UTC). Strong winds were reported. Police cordoned off the area, noting it could collapse even more and cables for the street lightning were broken. No personal injuries were reported, but some car...

Russia: Runaway bus kills at least four in entrance ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017 Disasters and accidents Related articles 26 December 2017: Russia: Runaway bus kills at least four in entrance to Moscow Metro station 24 December 2017: England: Fire at London Zoo kills aardvark, meerkats believed dead 15 November 2017: DR Congo: Train crash kills more than 30 in Lualaba province 15 September 2017: Device expl...

England: Fire at London Zoo kills aardvark, meerkats...
Sunday, December 24, 2017 England Related articles 24 December 2017: England: Fire at London Zoo kills aardvark, meerkats believed dead 15 December 2017: England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth 13 December 2017: Apple, Inc. confirms acquisition of Shazam 12 December 2017: UEFA Champions League 2017–2018: ...

DR Congo: Train crash kills more than 30 in Lualaba ...
Disasters and accidents Related articles 15 November 2017: DR Congo: Train crash kills more than 30 in Lualaba province 15 September 2017: Device explodes on London Tube train at Parsons Green 4 September 2017: Frankfurt defuses World War II-era bomb, evacuates 60,000 28 August 2017: Many in Texas still reeling following hurricane Harvey 30 July 2017: Briti...

Death toll exceeds 200 after heavy rain and mudslide...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Disasters and accidents Related articles 3 June 2017: Death toll exceeds 200 after heavy rain and mudslides in Sri Lanka 21 May 2017: Fatal police helicopter crash in Slovakia due to technical failure: preliminary Interior Ministry finding 23 April 2017: Truck loses control in Andhra Pradesh, kills more than a dozen 21 March 2017: 2...

Death toll exceed 200 after heavy rain and mudslides...
Saturday, June 3, 2017 Disasters and accidents Related articles 2 June 2017: Death toll exceed 200 after heavy rain and mudslides in Sri Lanka 21 May 2017: Fatal police helicopter crash in Slovakia due to technical failure: preliminary Interior Ministry finding 23 April 2017: Truck loses control in Andhra Pradesh, kills more than a dozen 21 March 2017: 2...

Fatal police helicopter crash in Slovakia due to tec...
According to initial reports by the Slovak Police Force, the helicopter spiraled down from a height of about 100 metres and 200 metres away from the point of take-off. Slovak tabloid newspaper Plus Jeden Deň wrote that, according to a source from the forensic team that analysed flight recorders data, both rotors failed at the same time. The accident caused fa...

20 confirmed dead after Kintampo freak tree accident
Eighteen students, according to Ghana National Fire Service spokesman Prince Billy Anaglate, were killed at the falls, while another two were rushed to hospital and died in care. Varying reports indicated possibly up to 18 people remaining in a critical condition who were trapped under the tree, who were then rescued and rushed to hospital, including a Wenchi ...

File photo of a refugee camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (Image: Voice of America.)

Official death toll from Nigerian refugee camp airst...
On Monday Nigerian authorities raised the official death toll from January 17's airstrike upon a refugee camp to 236, though the BBC on Tuesday reported an official told them this was an error and the actual figure was 115. The military said at the time a jet mistook refugees for rebels. There are no words to describe the chaos[...] I saw the bodies of chi...

Nigerian jet attacks refugee camp, killing dozens
A Nigerian Air Force jet fighter mistook refugees for rebels yesterday, Nigerian military said, firing on a camp in Rann, Borno State. Dozens of refugees and aid workers died. File photo of a refugee camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Image: Voice of America. The lowest estimate from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is of 50 dead. The BBC estimates at least 52 d...

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