Trasportation Disasters

An environmental disaster is threatening the Maharashtra coast after Saturday’s ship collision off the Mumbai harbour. Oil and natural-gas rigs operating in the U.S. rose for a ninth consecutive week, as drilling in Texas jumped, according to data published by Baker Hughes Inc. Crude oil rose for the first time in four days amid...
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A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
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Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed the other four people aboard, their doctor said Sunday.
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Hours after performing in a South Carolina concert, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.
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A Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others.
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A commuter train believed to have been carrying up to 350 people during the afternoon rush collided with a freight train Friday, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and trapping an unknown number of others in a mangled passenger car.
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A Metrolink commuter train carrying 222 people collided head-on with a freight train Friday afternoon, killing at least 12 people, injuring about 135 and leaving an unknown number of others trapped in a horrifically mangled passenger car. (Sept. 13)
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More than 150 people are feared dead after a passenger plane swerved off the runway at Madrid’s Barajas airport. Nineteen people survived the crash but some are in critical condition, said Development Minister Magdalena Alvarez.
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