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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, crashed over Texas and Louisiana, U.S. 6-300+ 15 February 1996 Intelsat 708, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan, China, Launch vehicle veered off course immediately after liftoff and struck a nearby village, officially killing at least six people (although other estimates put the death count higher). 3
Engine failure; killed in same crash as Wiley Post: Jaime Roldós Aguilera: Ecuador 1981 President of Ecuador: Beechcraft Super King Air [8] Ecuador flew into mountain Charles Rolls: United Kingdom 1910 Co-founder of Rolls-Royce Motors: Short-Wright Flyer (modified) Bournemouth, England tail structural failure. Lester Roloff: United States 1982
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
In Sweden, 37,573 people died from the Spanish flu pandemic according to official statistics. [2] Pandemic: Sweden-wide: 37,000: 1834–1874: Between 1834 and 1874, 37,000 people died in Sweden of cholera. [3] Pandemic: Sweden-wide: 23,563: 2020, January 24 – present: The COVID-19 pandemic is reported to have killed 23,563 people in Sweden as ...
The white Honda Civic sped down Highway 57, a rural two-lane corridor that reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, after a Texas sheriff's deputy tried pulling over the car and gave chase when it didn't stop.
The gunman was among the 11 people killed in the worst shooting in the history of Sweden at an adult education centre west of Stockholm.. On Tuesday, police received reports of a shooting in ...
April 26 – Spain – At least 10 people were killed in bus crash in Province of Alicante. [173] May 5 – Tanzania – At least 72 people drowned when the bus they were travelling in was swept into a river in Tanga Region. [174] July 15 – India – At least 45 people were killed when a bus plunged into a river in Arunachal Pradesh. [175]
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]