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On 20 May 1905, three elevator accidents occurred in New York City within the span of a few hours, killing two men and one woman. [71] On 28 July 1945, a U.S. Army plane crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, causing an elevator to fall 75 stories (more than 300 meters or 1,000 feet). Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was ...
The flight encountered severe vertical windshear during approach, causing a rapid descent and crash. Contributing to the accident was the captain's decision to continue with the approach in spite of the (albeit limited) severe weather reports. December 29, 1972 101 75 75 Eastern Air Lines Flight 401: Everglades: Florida: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The accident of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was covered in 2010 in "Alarming Silence", a season-9 episode of the internationally syndicated Canadian TV documentary series Mayday. [19] The sole survivor of the accident was a four-year old child who appeared in the 2013 documentary Sole Survivor.
The family of a 30-year-old man who was crushed to death in a freak elevator accident is speaking out following the horrific incident. Samuel Waisbren was about to exit the elevator of his 23 ...
American Airlines Flight 96 (AA96/AAL96) was a regular domestic flight operated by American Airlines from Los Angeles to New York via Detroit and Buffalo. On June 12, 1972, after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off above Windsor, Ontario, the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor ...
February 9 - Mary A. Pebley, age 63, was beheaded in an elevator accident at the Transportation Building in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reported that the woman's head was "torn from her body" when the elevator suddenly shot upwards as she boarded the elevator. Her head fell to the floor of the car as "screaming passengers cowered against ...
On Nov. 17, 2023, Flynn MacKrell, 18, was a passenger in a BMW X3 that crashed into a utility pole and tree minutes after he left his home in the city of Grosse Pointe Farms.
A mine elevator fell 200m in the Impala Platinum mine shaft accident. [114] [115] Rustenburg, South Africa: 12 30 October 2008 An elevator plunged to the ground at a construction site. [116] Xiapu County, China: 12 2 June 1993 An elevator plunged to the ground from the 20th floor at a construction site. [117] North Point, Hong Kong: 11 25 April ...