Disasters
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. |
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 1959 passengers 1198 died. |
30th January 1945, German Wilhelm Gustloff, 25,484 tons, exacly 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. |
December 1987, Dona Paz, a Philippine ferry sank with 4,600 passengers. |
April 1990, a fire raged through the Scandinavian Star ferry, Oslo to 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. |
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