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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout) is a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history and among the largest oil spills in history....
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Hundreds of rescuers scrambled Tuesday to try to locate more than 60 workers trapped in a Siberian hydroelectric plant after an accident on Monday. But with only two survivors recovered, the acting chief executive of RusHydro, which owns the plant, said that most had probably drowned. At least 12 people were confirmed dead after...
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An Indonesian military plane has crashed, killing at least 97 people.  As Daniel Schearf reports from The military transport plane crashed into homes near an air force base Wednesday morning as it was coming in for a landing. Over one hundred military personnel and their families were on board the Hercules C-130 plane when...
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An Alaskan volcano 100 miles (160km) south-west of the state’s largest city, Anchorage, erupted overnight, sending a plume of smoke up to 15,000 metres (50,000ft) into the air. Mount Redoubt experienced four large explosions late on Sunday and early today, according to geologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The observatory has issued a red...
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Marines knew five months before a military jet crashed into a home and killed four members of a family that the aircraft may have trouble getting fuel from tank to engine. That ignored warning was only one misstep in what the Marines called a string of bad decisions that led the F/A-18D Hornet to...
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A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, killing at least 73 miners and trapping dozens in the still-burning shaft, state media said. China’s mines are the world’s most dangerous with more than 3,000 deaths a year in fires, floods and explosions. The pre-dawn blast occurred while 436 workers...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico police say they found the mutilated remains of a woman floating in a seaside cave near the site of a small plane crash. Police spokeswoman Yaira Rivera says investigators believe the woman found Sunday in a cave under a cliff near the northwestern town of Camuy was one...
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A commuter plane coming in for a landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, sparking a fiery explosion and killing all 48 people on board and one person in the home. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the U.S. in 2 1/2 years. Witnesses heard the twin turboprop...
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A passenger jet with 153 people on board tonight crashed landed into the Hudson River in New York. The US Airways Airbus A320 came down after hitting a flock of birds, disabling both of its engines. It landed intact and passengers started fleeing into the freezing waters as boats flocked to the scene to...
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DENVER (AP) — Investigators took photos and measurements at the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plane veered off a runway and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow-covered ravine where it came to rest after its aborted...
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