Tag: crash

On the 12th of February 2009, a Bombardier Q400 turboprop flying on behalf of Continental Connection lost control on approach and plunged into a neighborhood near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground. The crash immediately galvanized unprecedented public attention,...

On the 23rd of November 1996, three men stormed the cockpit of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767, beat the First Officer, and demanded that the Captain fly the plane — and everyone in it — to the far-off land of Australia. Unable to convince the hijackers that the wide body jet did not ha...

On the 12th of December 1985, a chartered DC-8 carrying United States military personnel home from a mission in the Sinai Peninsula crashed on takeoff from a fuel stop in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board in what remains the deadliest air accident on Canadian soil. The disaster p...

Ever wonder what life was like before fancy gadgets and, well, everything else? Welcome to the Chipped Stone Age, also known as the Paleolithic Period. This period lasted a whopping 2.5 million years, from roughly 2.5 million years ago to about 12,000 years ago. That’s a long ti...

I think there are probably a bunch of different factors that lead any given person to develop an alcohol addiction. It’s kind of like a plane crash … usually it isn’t 1 big thing that went wrong, it’s a series of small things that led to 1 big thing. Take me ...

The emerging world of autonomous vehicles experienced a major setback recently when one of Cruise’s driverless cars was involved in a serious crash with a pedestrian in San Francisco. The incident raised alarms about the safety and capabilities of self-driving cars being tested on public roads...

End of 2023 and we are experiencing first big insolvencies in real estate market, after more than decade of seemingly blooming stage. With Signa group insolvency we have to ask our selves what is the stage of the industry and is this only a first in the row to experience negative effects of “M...

It’s been nearly four years since Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna and seven others died in a tragic helicopter accident in Calabasas, California. The NTSB concluded the helicopter pilot became disoriented in thick fog and crashed into a hillside. The victims were killed instantly. Since th...

Moorgate is a street in the district “City of London” (population as of 2016: 9401), right in the heart of the English capital. Moorgate is named after one of the city’s first entrance-gates back in the fifteenth century, then sitting on the edge of the city. Today the area is unof...

In 1982, the video game market was a booming seemingly-unstoppable multi-billion dollar juggernaut. Then third party game companies saturated the market with similar and clone hardware and low-quality games based on dog food and soda, culminating in Atari’s Shakespearean mistake of releasing a...