Crashes News

Copacabana - A video shows a fire department rescue helicopter crashing into water at the Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro. Although, we see the helicopter sinking into the water, the crew members escaped with only minor injuries after firefighters came to the rescue.

Pyongyang - North Korea, defying the international community, launched a long-range rocket on Friday, but it crashed and fell into the sea before it escaped Earth's atmosphere.

Perth - Diners inside a Japanese restaurant in Australia miraculously escaped death after a driver crashed his car through the building.

Following news today that YouTube and iTunes have been easily accessed by hackers, Internet information giant Wikipedia is now experiencing a lengthy down time period and for over an hour gave their users no explanation as to why.

A British fighter jet crashed inside NATO's largest base in southern Afghanistan. This was the second major crash there in two days.

Was it big birds that got into both engines of the US Airways jet that landed in the Hudson River Thursday? Officials say it's more than likely.

The number of medical air transport crashes are at an alarming level as last Sunday's crash in Arizona added to the tally another six fatalities and brings the number of serious medical aircraft accidents this year to ten and the death toll to sixteen.

Five people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed into two homes in Compton, California.

Hong Kong - Two Hong Kong policemen were on trial Tuesday accused of staging 19 bogus crashes and conning drivers out of thousands of US dollars in false compensation claims.

Last Friday afternoon a new ACE Hardware store in downtown Farmington, Michigan got a surprise customer no one would have ever suspected would show up, or even would be interested in shopping downtown.