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12 January 2011, Stratford – About 9:15 a.m. a New Plymouth bound freight train collided with a utility vehicle at Flint Road Level crossing, which was controlled only by stop signs, killing one person and seriously injuring two others in the vehicle. This was the fifth crash, and second fatality, at this crossing since 1992.
A bus in Northland Region leaves the road after brake failure and rolls down a valley, killing 15 people, and becomes the worst road crash in New Zealand history up to that time. [26] April 7 – Kenya – A bus returning from a church meeting plunged into the Tiva River, Mitaboni, Machakos, killing at least 72 people. [27]
A Jetstar Airways aircraft had steering issues while landing at Christchurch Airport on Friday morning, the airline said in a statement, with local media reporting it left the runway.
1943 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 5 Jun 1943: south of Fiji: 14 [79] [80] Pan Am Flight 806: air accident 30 Jan 1974: Pago Pago, American Samoa: Only New Zealand deaths listed 12 [81] 1945 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 27 Jan 1945: off Beqa, Fiji 10 [82] Bere Ferrers rail accident, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform train ...
The crash and subsequent inquiry resulted in major changes in Air New Zealand's management. 257 (all) 0 0 0 TE24: 19 May 1987 Boeing 747-200: Nadi International Airport, Fiji During the first of Fiji's coups d'état that year, Air New Zealand Flight 24, flying from Tokyo Narita to Auckland via Nadi, was hijacked at Nadi International Airport ...
The building collapsed in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, with only the north shear wall that included the lift shaft left still standing. [16] One survivor was quoted as running out of the ground floor during the shaking. When she had reached the other side of the 14-metre-wide (46 ft) road, she looked back and "the building was down."
Acosta had a blood-alcohol level of .129 at the time of the crash, court documents show, Hawaii News Now and Arizona’s Family reported. The legal level in Arizona is 0.08. He was found ...
The Central City Red Zone, also known as the CBD Red Zone, was a public exclusion zone in the Christchurch Central City implemented after the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. After February 2013, it was officially renamed the CBD Rebuild Zone by government agencies, but remained known as the Red Zone. It gradually shrank in size and ...