Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A major event that precipitated the Spanish–American War. Exact cause remains unknown. 273 1875 Pacific: Accident – shipwreck Off Cape Flattery, Washington: Fatalities estimated 273 1979 American Airlines Flight 191: Accident – aircraft Chicago, Illinois: Deadliest aircraft accident in U.S. history 272 1943 Henry R. Mallory [21]
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
Lighting on a Houston radio tower reportedly failed just days before it was hit by a helicopter on Sunday, killing four people in a fiery explosion that toppled the tower and left debris scattered ...
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims’ families, friends, and loved ones involved in this tragic event,” Duluth Police department wrote on Facebook. Duluth, a city of nearly 90,000 ...
The entire tragic event elapsed in just 47 seconds, and two NSW warriors were lost to the sea." It happened too fast for the other SEALs to mount man-overboard rescue efforts. A 10-day search and ...
Most of the deaths were from suffocation or burns. However, some died from being trampled or from leaping off the upper decks onto the pier; only one person drowned. 118–139 2000 Russian Navy: Kursk – The submarine, one of the Russian navy's most advanced vessels, sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August with the loss of all 118 people on board ...
It does not normally include numerous non-notable deadly events such as disease deaths in an ordinary year, nor most deaths due to residential fires, traffic collisions and criminal homicide. Particularly for epidemics, years reflect when the event impacted New York City rather than the world at large.