disaster

Today (January 28th, 2026) is the 40th anniversary of the destruction of the Challenger during its ascent phase post Max-Q. It was a shocking event to may including myself (I'd turned 13 the previous November in 1985 and I was on holiday with my family in Mt. Maunganui) in which the public...

View: https://x.com/tcsavunma/status/1988223519399047214?t=dAn0hxG2EfBbJpfV0eeD6Q&s=19 View: https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1988230531561975817?t=M0zHtzuiFB-lbi_l3sCZNQ&s=19 View: https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1988243370284580945?t=M0zHtzuiFB-lbi_l3sCZNQ&s=19 RIP to those 20...

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operated by UPS crashed shortly after takeoff at Louisville airport. 3 dead and 11 injured as of right now. The aircraft was filmed trailing fire and smoke during takeoff. Live report: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ups-plane-crash-louisville-airport

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv1m4013e7o https://en.bonikbarta.com/bangladesh/g2toK4gfq8k1CQS3 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/cargo-fire-at-dhaka-airport-may-cost-bangladesh-1b...

It seems to have been a case of a stall test that got out of control, here is a selection of videos on this accident. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTBfQqF3ENE View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7borjnKd-g View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yoj_85MDJc View...

Three videos covering accidents in East Germany where passenger trains collided with Soviet Tanks, the 1962 Trebbin Rail Accident was declared a state secret by both East Germany and the Soviet Union and only the heavy involvement of East German civilians in the rescue efforts kept the story...

A BAF F-7BGI (Chengdu J-7 export variant) on a training mission crashed into a school campus in Bangladesh's capital just over four hours ago. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75rprqwr67o :(

I found this one on youtube,its rather interesting as evidently the worlds first nuclear reactor disaster took place during the middle of ww2 in germany. Whats quite astonishing about this experimental reactor was that it had no control system,it had a way to start it but no way of controlling...

Updates on link below. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/12/air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-ahmedabad-india-latest-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I happen to live near Pier 36 on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where the Mexican Navy's sail training ship Cuauhtémoc was towed after its 17 May collision with the Brooklyn Bridge a bit downstream on the East River. I walked over to the pier this afternoon to see the damaged ship; see my photo...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/ Pretty massive outages. Regards,

April 26th 2025, a massive explosion occurred at the Shahid Rajaee Port near Bandar Abbas, by far Iran's largest sea port. In 2020's Beirut explosion, said to be a large stockpile of Ammonium Nitrate, there was initially a gray smoke cloud and then an explosion containing a dark red smoke. In...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/helicopter-crashes-hudson-river-new-york-city/story?id=120691975#:~:text=All%20six%20people%20on%20board,according%20to%20law%20enforcement%20sources. Regards,

3月28日14时20分，缅甸发生7.9级地震。确切的伤亡率仍不清楚，救援队正在行动。不过，根据实际情况，缅甸地震可能在7.9级以上，震地动山的强震区绵延500多公里。

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/oil-tanker-cargo-ship-collide-north-sea/ https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/aircraft-carrier-harry-truman-collides-ship-mediterranean-sea/story?id=118787251 WTF??? Is the USN literally asleep at the wheel??? I well remember USN woes from a few years back, but it looks like the rot has resisted any cleaning ship efforts - what gives??? In...

American Eagle Flight 5342, a CRJ-700, has collided with a US Army Blackhawk out of Fort Belvoir near Reagan International Airport in D.C. Current reports say both the helicopter, and the two halves of the CRJ, are in the Potomac River. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt

A 737-800 flying from Thailand to Korea has run off the runway and hit a wall during a belly landing at Muan International Airport. Reported to be 173 Korean, 2 Thai passengers and 6 crew. 47 confirmed dead so far with 2 confirmed survivors (a passenger and a flight attendant). Early reports...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-06/new-zealand-navy-ship-runs-aground-off-samoa-/104438052

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