accidents
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Crash Test Dummy Failures Send Them Flying Off Roller Coaster Into Nearby Hotel
Stories about amusement parks are typically dominated by two topics: either the opening of a new attraction or the catastrophic failure of an old one. This time it was neither, as two crash test dummies designed to ensure a roller coaster was operating safely failed, causing them to be launched through the roof of a…
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Two Workers Are Dead After Partial Building Collapse At Amazon’s Baltimore Warehouse
Two men were killed in a partial building collapse at an Amazon facility in Baltimore late Friday in an incident resulting from severe weather, a company executive confirmed Saturday.
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US Airline Employee Steals Plane From Sea-Tac Airport, Crashes After Being Tailed By Fighters
A 29-year-old airline employee “thought to be suicidal” stole a 76-seat Q400 turboprop plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) on Friday night, eventually crashing some 48km away with fighter jets on his tail, the New York Times reported. Local authorities confirmed he is dead.
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Skyscraper Window Replacement Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
Video: Construction workers in Moscow using a rooftop crane to lift a giant pane of glass to the top of a 30-plus-storey skyscraper will unfortunately have to try it once again. The glass was almost in their reach when the cable apparently snapped, sending the window and its support rig plummeting to the ground.