Accident News
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Buenos Aires -
The discovery of the wreckage of an Argentine submarine lost a year ago has revived a stalled probe into the cause of the undersea disaster that took the lives of 44 crew members.
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Bangkok -
A ship that capsized in July off the coast of Thailand's tourist hotspot Phuket -- leaving dozens of Chinese tourists dead -- was plucked out of the sea on Saturday, immigration officials said.
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Mar Del Plata -
The crushed wreck of an Argentine submarine has been located one year after it vanished into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean with 44 crew members, in the country's worst naval disaster in decades.
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Buenos Aires -
The wreckage of an Argentine navy submarine that exploded and disappeared one year ago with 44 crew on board was located in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, the navy said.
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Jakarta -
The family of an Indonesian man killed in a Lion Air jet crash is suing Boeing, alleging that the accident may have been caused by a problem with the flight-control system in its newest 737 plane.
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Washington -
Questions swirled Wednesday about how Boeing had failed to tell airlines and pilots about changes to an anti-stall system suspected in last month's fatal crash in Indonesia.
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Marseille -
Rescue workers Friday pulled an eighth body from the rubble of two dilapidated buildings which collapsed in the southern French city of Marseille, as residents were evacuated and nearby buildings inspected.
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Marseille -
Pressure grew on Marseille's mayor and other officials Thursday, accused of ignoring warnings about unsafe housing as a seventh body was pulled from rubble after a deadly building collapse in the southern French port city.
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Jakarta -
A Lion Air passenger jet has been involved in another accident -- just a week after a plane from the Indonesian airline crashed with the loss of all 189 people on board.
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Oslo -
An operation was underway Thursday to try to stop a Norwegian navy frigate from sinking after it collided with a Maltese oil tanker in a fjord in western Norway.
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Marseille -
Two dilapidated buildings next to those which collapsed in southern France were to be demolished Thursday, forcing rescue workers to call off their search after six bodies were pulled from the rubble.
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Rabat -
A teenager died Wednesday in Morocco when an abandoned coal mine collapsed in the impoverished former mining town of Jerada which saw protests earlier this year following similar accidents.
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Jakarta -
Boeing issued a special bulletin Wednesday addressing a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people last week.
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Jakarta -
Boeing issued a special bulletin Wednesday addressing a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people last week.
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Marseille -
A sixth body was found Wednesday in the wreckage of two dilapidated buildings that collapsed in the French city of Marseille, where furious residents have accused authorities of ignoring warnings about the state of housing for the poorest.
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Marseille -
As many as eight people might have died in the southern French city of Marseille in two building collapses, officials said Tuesday after the first body was pulled out from the wreckage.
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Wellington -
A New Zealand baby was plucked from the ocean as he floated past a fisherman in a rescue hailed as "miraculous" by water safety experts, who warned the accident could easily have ended in tragedy.
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Marseille -
French rescue workers were searching into the night Monday for possible victims under the wreckage of two dilapidated buildings that suddenly collapsed in the centre of Marseille.
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Marseille -
French rescue workers were searching for possible victims under the wreckage of two dilapidated buildings that suddenly collapsed Monday in the centre of the southern city of Marseille.
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Jakarta -
An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said Saturday.
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Jakarta -
An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said Saturday.
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Bejing -
A scuffle between a driver and a passenger caused their bus to plunge from a bridge into a river in southwest China, killing at least 13 people, police said Friday.
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Apo -
Jordan's education and tourism ministers resigned on Thursday, a week after a deadly school-bus accident in the flood-hit Dead Sea region, a government official said.
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Korolyov -
Russia said on Thursday the launch of a Soyuz rocket failed last month because of a sensor that was damaged during assembly at the Baikonur cosmodrome but insisted that the spacecraft remains reliable.
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Korolyov -
A Russian rocket that carried two people to space last month failed and sent the craft back to Earth because of "deformation" of a part that was made during assembly at the cosmodrome, a space official said Thursday.
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Jakarta -
A black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, authorities said Thursday, a find that could be critical to establishing why a brand new jet plunged into the Java Sea shortly after take-off, killing 189 people on board.
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Moscow -
Russia hopes to launch three crew for the International Space Station on December 3, the first manned blast-off since an accident this month, the Roscosmos space agency said Wednesday.
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Herat -
An Afghan army helicopter carrying 25 people crashed in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing all those on board, officials said.
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Jakarta -
When investigators arrive at an aviation crash site, one of their first priorities is to locate the plane's black boxes, two pieces of equipment that can hold vital clues on what caused an aircraft to go down.
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Jakarta -
The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian jetliner may have been found, the country's military chief said Wednesday, two days after the deadly accident feared to have killed 189 people.
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DRIVERLESS: A Google self-driving car is seen parked in Mountain View. Mark Doliner/Wikimedia Commons
Van in ditch, driver gone, beer inside
A bus crashed into a low overpass bridge in Boston injuring at least 30. YouTube
Johnathan Legear, Belgian Footballer, drives his Porsche into a convenience store. Video screen capture
Officials work at the scene of a multi-vehicle wreck on Interstate 75 at Paynes Prairie on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, south of Gainesville, Fla. Courtesy Matt Stamey/Gainesville Sun
Accident in Toronto's Koreatown KJ Mullins
Accident during filming of Transformers 3. YouTube screen capture
An estimated 22 people were killed in a horrific accident on the M13 highway in Durban, South Africa. Video screengrab
Screenshot of video showing a tow truck and rig falling off the cliff edge YouTube screenshot
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A police officer at the scene of an accident in Toronto
Lion Air plane crashes in Bali Twitter / @liatoriana
CRASH: The tour bus involved in Friday's accident in San Francisco came to rest alongside an under-construction Apple Computer store at Post and Stockton streets, near Union Square. LTSLTS/Wikimedia Commons
A660 Otley Bypass heading from Burley-in-Wharfedale. David Spencer [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
60 year-old cyclist pronounced dead at scene of TTC accident.
Incidents such as this happened due to alcohol and cell phone use. Studies have proven that current bans on usage are not stopping further accidents. Todd Dwyer
5 killed in routine safety drill on cruise ship in Canary Islands (MS Thomson Majesty) YouTube
A construction crane in Kirov, Russia falls, taking a whole row of balconies with it. YouTube
Game Commission officials were ob the scene of the accidental shooting of two teens in Tamaqua. screen grab
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