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Tractor falls into crevasse [20] Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica 1979 Aircraft: 3 Molodezhnaya Ice Station plane crash [21] near Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica 11 survivors 1989 Aircraft: 3 Mirny Station plane crash [22] Mirny Station, Antarctica 1999 Aircraft: 3 Terre Adélie helicopter crash [23]
Deep Impact at Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Dart Impact at Dimorphos Mars 2020 Skycrane descend stage crash smoke plume in the distance. This is a list of uncrewed spacecraft which have been intentionally destroyed at their objects of study, typically by hard landings or crash landings at the end of their respective missions and/or functionality.
See and Bassett attempted to land their T-38 at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, in bad weather, and crashed into the adjacent McDonnell Aircraft factory, where they were going for simulator training for their Gemini 9 flight. [25] [26] Fire during spacecraft test 27 January 1967: Apollo 1: Virgil "Gus" Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee
The William Glacier in Antarctica partially collapsed in the same week as Antarctica's hottest recorded day at 65ºF. It lasted for several minutes and stretched half a mile.
Vibrations caused by the impacts are giving scientists new insight into the structure of the red planet. Recent meteorite crashes on Mars ‘could reveal clues about planet’s origin’ Skip to ...
[18] [19] Six seconds later, the plane crashed into the side of Mount Erebus and exploded, instantly killing everyone on board. The accident occurred at 12:50 pm at a position of 77°25′30″S 167°27′30″E / 77.42500°S 167.45833°E / -77.42500; 167.45833 ( accident site ) and an elevation of 1,467 feet (447 m) above mean ...
VX-6 traces its roots to Operation Highjump (1946–1947), the fourth Antarctic expedition conducted by United States Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd.That expedition set out in December 1946 to conduct an extensive aerial survey of Antarctica, using Martin PBM Mariners based in the pack ice of the Ross Sea, as well as land-based R4D Dakotas (Dakota, from the acronym "DACoTA" for Douglas ...
Flight 431 then crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan on 30 January 2000. Ten passengers survived. Of the 169 fatalities, 146 bodies were recovered, and 103 of those bodies were identified. Varig Flight 797 crashed into the jungle near Abidjan after engine failure on 3 January 1987. Of 51 on board, only a single ...