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An 11-year-old girl was struck and killed by a boat while tubing at a camp, Michigan authorities said. A 25-year-old lifeguard and 29-year-old “spotter” took a group of children out tubing on ...
TWO RIVERS – Nearly 20 years ago, Chow Chong — who owned a kite-selling business in the city’s downtown — came up with an idea to bring folks to town. “I went to kite-flying festivals in ...
A more recent variant of towed tubing is "kite tubing". When tubes being towed on water reach high speeds, they may take flight. This is because the body of the tube acts as an airfoil and creates lift. In this way, the tube becomes a kite. A tube's ability to achieve and maintain flight depends on a number of factors including the speed at ...
Kite flying was so popular that kids called school vacations “the time of kites,” Luiz Antônio Simas, a historian who specializes in Rio's popular culture, told a packed bar near the Maracana ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Among the fatalities was actress Carole Lombard. October 30, 1941 14 1 1 Northwest Airlines Flight 5: Moorhead: Minnesota: Douglas DC-3: The aircraft developed severe icing on its wings and crashed. The captain was the sole survivor, though he would die a year later in another aviation accident. February 26, 1941 8 8 8 Eastern Air Lines Flight ...
Two other kids were seriously hurt in a separate tubing incident, officials said. 10-year-old girl tubing on Tennessee River dies after being hit by boat, officials say Skip to main content
Kites and Planes: A young boy flies a kite near an electricity pylon (transmission tower), not realizing that the kite control cord is a conductor. The boy receives a shock when the kite makes contact with a conductor on the 132,000 volt pylon. As a stand-alone TV broadcast, it is assumed the incident is fatal.