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The Shag Harbour UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast, on 4 October 1967. The reports were investigated by various Canadian civilian ( RCMP and Canadian Coast Guard ) and military ( Canadian Forces navy and air force) agencies as ...
The train involved in the crash, a DM80760 / Fac BD, was a British train from Hanover, Germany to Hook of Holland, Netherlands, carrying 151 on leave British military personnel and their families, including some 10 women and several children. [1]
[1]: 24 At 08:09:28, the MD-87 was given clearance by a different controller to take off from Runway 36R. [1]: 24–25 Fifty-three seconds later, the MD-87 aircraft, travelling at about 150 knots (280 km/h; 170 mph), collided with the Cessna. One of the four people in the Cessna was killed on impact; the remaining three initially survived the ...
[9]: 26 The Zagreb VOR was a reporting point for a number of congested airways between northern Europe and southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. [10] The airspace was divided into three sectors by altitude: the lower sector below 25,000 feet (7,600 m), the middle sector from 25,000–31,000 feet (7,600–9,400 m), and the upper ...
The incident was one of the largest mass killings in British criminal history, [2] and the largest involving illegal immigrants entering the United Kingdom, the second being Essex lorry deaths, where all 39 Vietnamese immigrants were found dead in a truck in Essex. [1] [3] [4] The 60 Chinese had paid £20,000 each. They were flown from Beijing ...
The Kerch Strait incident was an international incident that occurred on 25 November 2018 in the Kerch Strait, during which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coast guard fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels after they attempted to transit from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov through the strait on their way to the ...
The Venlo incident was a covert operation carried out by the German Nazi Party's Sicherheitsdienst (SD) on 9 November 1939, which resulted in the capture of two British Secret Intelligence Service agents five metres (16 ft) from the German border, on the outskirts of the Dutch city of Venlo.
On 20 April 2017, three French National Police officers were shot by Karim Cheurfi, a French national wielding an AK-47 rifle on the Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris.One officer, French National Police Captain Xavier Jugelé, was killed and two other French National Police officers and a German tourist were seriously wounded.