4 killed in China subway collapse

Posted on 17 November 2008

BEIJING, China (CNN) — A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.
The search continues for the missing, who are believed to be trapped in the construction site in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua news agency reported.

Wildfires raging through Southern California

Posted on 16 November 2008

Chaotic, gusting winds fanned wildfires all over Southern California on Saturday, reducing 500 mobile homes to cinders and forcing thousands of homeowners and even firefighters to flee as flames as high as 50 feet licked at their heels.
The Sayre Fire, the worst of the blazes, raced through Sylmar, a San Fernando Valley town on [...]

Fire destroys 80 homes, injures 4 in SoCal town

Posted on 14 November 2008

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters were racing early Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed about 80 homes and a college dormitory, injured four people and forced thousands to flee the longtime celebrity hideaway of Montecito.
The fire broke out just before 6 p.m. Thursday and spread to about 2,000 acres — [...]

Second Haiti school collapse injures nine

Posted on 12 November 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — A Port-au-Prince school partly collapsed Wednesday days after more than 90 were killed in another school cave-in, sparking a panic among parents of children in other risky schools and street protests over dangerous buildings.
Nine people were injured when walls at the small Grace Divine school in central Port-au-Prince partly gave way [...]

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Scores die in India temple crush

At least 125 devotees have died in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian city of Jodhpur.

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Natural Calamities

Strong quake hits Panamanian city

Posted on 19 November 2008

A powerful earthquake has struck south-western Panama, close to the border with Costa Rica, says the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake was reported with a magnitude of 6.2 and happened at a depth of 48.2km (30 miles), monitors said.
The epicentre was close to the Pacific coast and 55km (35 miles) west of David, Panama’s third-largest [...]

Hurricane

Paloma downgraded to tropical depression

Posted on 10 November 2008

Paloma lost its punch as it stalled over Cuba on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical depression after coming ashore as powerful hurricane that battered the island still recovering from two earlier storms.
Paloma left a trail of destruction through eastern Cuba, but not the widespread devastation of hurricanes Gustav and Ike that caused $8 [...]

Typhoon

Storm destroys part of Spain’s North African fence

Posted on 27 October 2008

MADRID, - A storm washed away part of a wall designed to keep out illegal immigrants crossing into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Sunday and heavy rains flooded many of the city’s streets.
Civil guard police reinforced the border near the 30-metre (yard) stretch of damaged wall, which was built to stem a flow [...]

News

QantasLink plane lands in Brisbane after smoke fills cabin

Posted on 19 November 2008

A QantasLink plane made an emergency landing at Brisbane Airport last night, after smoke filled the cockpit.
- QantasLink plane emergency landing
- White smoke ‘filled the cabin’
- 35 passengers land in Brisbane
The Dash-8 aircraft, en route from Roma in central Queensland, touched down at 7.23pm, less than five minutes after the pilot contacted Air Traffic Control [...]

Accidents

Qantas Says Two Aircraft Damaged in Collision at Repair Base

Posted on 18 November 2008

Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest carrier, said two of its Boeing Co. 747 aircraft were damaged in a collision while being towing at a maintenance base.
“Both aircraft did sustain some damage and the extent of this is being assessed,” Qantas said in an e-mailed statement. “We have stood the individuals involved down pending a full [...]

Major Disaster

Death toll from China landslide reaches 254

Posted on 14 September 2008

BEIJING, China (CNN) — The death toll from a mud and rock slide that occured at an unlicensed mine last week in northern China has risen to 254 as rescue workers continue to recover more bodies, state-run media said Sunday.
More than 1,000 rescue workers have combed through 90 percent of the inundated area — [...]

Survivor

B.C. plane crash survivor’s brother, doctors awed by his survival

Posted on 19 November 2008

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother said Tuesday.
“There’s no way he could have went through that and come down without some sort of help,” Michael [...]

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China Subway Disaster Gallery

Posted on 17 November 2008

A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.

Other Disasters

Death toll rises to eight in E China subway tunnel collapse

Posted on 19 November 2008

HANGZHOU, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — Eight people have been confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province after another body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon, a local official said.
Four sniffer dogs and more than 400 rescuers are still searching for 13 others, whose hope to survive is very slim after [...]

Transportation

Pilot alerted officials jet had run out of runway

Posted on 19 November 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A pilot can be heard on newly released cockpit recordings warning air traffic controllers that his plane was “going off the end” of the runway, the last words captured before the private jet crashed and killed four people.
Also among the eerie recordings are controllers at the Columbia, S.C., airport scrambling to [...]

Emergency Landings

Pilot alerted officials jet had run out of runway

Posted on 19 November 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A pilot can be heard on newly released cockpit recordings warning air traffic controllers that his plane was “going off the end” of the runway, the last words captured before the private jet crashed and killed four people.
Also among the eerie recordings are controllers at the Columbia, S.C., airport scrambling to [...]

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