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The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. at the centre of the controversy. The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed as "Crashgate" by some in the media, [1] [2] was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to give a sporting advantage to his Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso.
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
The cause of the crash was likely an onboard explosive device, [123] [124] and that ISIL has claimed that it brought down the aircraft. [ 125 ] On 2 February 2016, Daallo Airlines Flight 159 , an Airbus A321-111 registered as SX-BHS, suffered an in-flight explosion five minutes after takeoff, injuring two passengers; the explosion blew a hole ...
State and local officials say the Federal Highway Administration has approved plans for a new crash gate for emergency vehicles on I-84.
A B‑2 already in the air was called back to Andersen after the crash, where it and the other B‑2s were grounded until the initial investigation into the crash was complete. Six Boeing B‑52s of the 96th Bomb Squadron , 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base , Louisiana, were deployed to replace the B‑2s.
Some still images from the video had previously been released and publicly circulated, but this was the first official release of the edited video of the crash. [126] A nearby Citgo service station also had security cameras, but a video released on September 15, 2006, did not show the crash because the camera was pointed away from the crash site.
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