DISASTERS - AIR, SEA AND EARTH

 

WB01704_.gif (383 bytes)Air crashes
2001, 12 of November an Airbus 300 crashed in New York on the way to San Domingo killing all 255 aboard and 6 on the ground.
2001, 8th October a SAS DC-9 crashed into Cessna airplane in Milano, about 118 were killed including 110 aboard the DC-9.
2001, 4th of October a Russian TU-154 of Sibir Airlines was shot down by AAA-missile at Black Sea. All 74 aboard were killed.
2001, 11th September 4 Boeing 767 and 757s crashed into World Trade Center and Pentagon with all 266 aboard killed.
3rd of July 2001 . A Vladivostok Avia  TU-154 crashed at Irkusk killing all 145 passengers aboard.
2000, 23th August an Airbus A 320 of Gulf Air crashed in the Persian Gulf with all 143 aboard killed.
2000, July an Air France Concorde crashed in Paris. All 113 aboard were killed.
31st of October 2000: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 heading for Los Angeles crashed with 66 out of 179 aboard killed.
19th of April 2000: A Boeing 737-200 from Air Philippines crashed with all 131passengers aboard killed.
31st of   January 2000: An Airbus A310 from Kenya Airways crashes in sea off Abidjan airport with 169 deaths and 10 survivors.
1999, Oct. 31, An EgyptAir Flight 990 Boeing 767 went down with all 217 passengers off Nantucket.
16th of February 1998: A China Airlines Airbus A300-600 crashes at Taipei Airport on Taiwan and hit a house-  202 killed.
09/02/1998 Off Nova Scotia, Canada Swissair MD-11 - 229 killed.
5th of August 1997: A Jumbojet from Korean Air craches at  Guam island. 226 are killed.
09/26/1997 Buah Nabar, Indonesia Garuda Airways A300 - 234 killed.
08/06/1997 Agana, Guam Korean Airlines B747 - 228 killed.
11/12/1996 New Delhi, India Saudi / Kazastan B747 / IL76 - 349 killed.
01/08/1996 Kinshasa, Zaire African Air AN32 - 227 killed.
07/17/1996, a Boeing 747 Jumbo of TWA exploded 4 minutes after its start in New York. All 230 aboard died.
04/26/1994 Komaki, Japan China Airlines Airbus A300 - 264 killed.
23rd of Marts 1994: An Airbus A-310 of  Aeroflot, crashes at Novokusnetsk, with 70 personer killed because son of pilot flew plane.
26th of April 1994: An Airbus A300-600 from China Airlines explodes at Nagoya Airport in Japan. 264 are killed.
07/11/1991 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Nigeria Airways DC-8 explodes - with 261killed pilgrims.
1991, May 26, Austrian Lauda Air�s Boeing 767-300 flying from Bangkok to Vienna chrashed with all 223 aboard killed.
12/21/1988 Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am B747 exploded with 270 killed.
07/03/1988 Persian Gulf Iran Air A300 Airbus - 290 killed.
12/12/1985 Newfoundland, Canada Arrow Air  DC-8 - 256 killed.
08/12/1985 Mt. Osutaka, Japan Japan Air Lines B747 - 520 killed.
06/23/1985 Irish Sea Air India B747 - 329 killed.
09/01/1983 Sakhalin Island, Russia Korean Airlines B747 - 269 killed.
11/28/1979 Mt. Erebus, Antarctica Air New Zealand DC-10 - 257 killed.
03/27/1977 Tenerife, Canary Islands,  a Pan Am B747 collided into KLM  B747, - 583 killed - all time record.

 

Disasters at sea, in the air and on the earth

 

SHIP/FERRY/SUB - DISASTERS
1912, 1062 died when TITANIC, 46.329 BRT collided with iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
May 7th, 1915 the Lusitania, 32.000 BRT was sunk by German "U 20". Out of 1,959 passengers 1,198 died.
30th January 1945, German Wilhelm Gustloff, 25,484 tons, exactly 9,343 deaths, sunk in the Baltic Sea.
April 16, 1945 German fugitive ship "Goya"  went down at Rixh�ft with 6,500 fugitives.
July 25th 1956 Andrea Doria sinks off New York. 50 passengers die out of 1962 on board.
March 6, 1987: Channel ferry Herald of free Enterprise capsized at Zeebr�gge harbour with 193 deaths.

20th December 1987, Dona Paz, a Philippine ferry collided with a tanker and sank with 4,341 passengers.
April 1990, a fire raged through the Scandinavian Star ferry, Oslo-Copenhagen, killing 158 passengers.
August 22, 1994 sinking of the Estonia in the Baltic Sea, which claimed 852 lives.
Sub Wrecks on the Ocean Floor

April 10, 1963: USS Thresher sinks off the New England coast with all 129 men aboard. It sits at a depth of 8,530  feet.

May 22, 1968: USS Scorpion sinks east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean with 99 men aboard. It sits at a depth of 9,860 feet.
April 11, 1970: Soviet November class submarine sinks in the Bay of Biscay outside Spain in the Atlantic Ocean. It sits at a depth of 15,354 feet.
Oct. 3, 1986: Soviet submarine catches fire and sinks east of Bermuda, killing three sailors. Nuclear warheads also reportedly broke open, spewing plutonium into the Atlantic. It sits at a depth of 16,404 feet.

April 7, 1989: Soviet submarine, the Komsomolets, catches fire and sinks off Norway, killing 42 of the 69 sailors aboard. It sits at a depth of 4,500 feet.

August 12, 2000: Soviet submarine, the Kursk, sinks off Murmansk with 118 sailors aboard.

 

Disasters in the air, at sea

and on the earth

 

EARTHQUAKES
Year Location Deaths Richter
2001 GUJARAT, NW INDIA 20.000+ 7,9
2000 GOLKAR, NW TURKEY 45,000 --
1995 KOBE, JAPAN     6,500 6,9
1994 NORTHRIDGE, SF, CAL      >100 6,7
1976 TANGSHAN, CHINA 240,000 7,8
1964 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA         131 8,3
1963 SKOPJE, YUGOSLAVIA     1,011 5,5
1949 TADZHIKISTAN, USSR 120,000 7,5
1927 NAN-SHAN, CHINA 200,000 8,3
1923 TOKYO & YOKOHAMA 143,000 8,3
1920 KANSU, CHINA 180,000+ 8,5
1908 MESSINA, SICILY   75,000 7,5
1906 SAN FRANCISCO         667 8,3
1905 KASHMIR, INDIA   19,000 8.6
1811 NEW MADRID, MO., USA            -- 8,7
1783 CALABRIA   50,000 --
1755 LISBON, PORTUGAL   30,000+ 8,7
1556 SHANSI Province, CHINA 830,000 --
1201 UPPER EGYPT 1,000,000 --

VOLCANO-ERUPTIONS
Year Location Deaths
1991 MT. PINATUBO, PHILIPPINES           745
1985 NORTHERN COLUMBIA     25,000+
1980 MT. ST. HELENS, WASHINGTON            61
1902 MT. PEL�E, MARTINIQUE      28,000
1883 MT. KRAKATAU, EAST INDIES      37,000
1815 MT. TAMBORA, EAST INDIES    162,000
1683 MT. MOUNT ETNA, SICILY      60,000
1669 MT. MOUNT ETNA, SICILY      20,000
79 A.D. MT. VESUVIUS, ITALY       2,000+
1645 B.C. SANTORINI          N.A.

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