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Kite fighting has caused horrific injuries and even deaths, and a bill moving through Brazil's Congress is seeking to prohibit the manufacture, sale and use of the razor-sharp lines nationwide ...
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 ...
Plane crashed from navigation error, high in the remote Andes. 29 deaths included 11 rugby players and the team physician. 16 starving survivors cannibalized the dead, until rescue on December 21–23. 28 February 1973: Kyzylorda Region women's basketball team: Basketball: Aeroflot: Yakovlev Yak-40: Semipalatinsk Airport, Soviet Union: 32: 13
In 1984, a fatal heart attack suffered by one visitor was unofficially believed to have been triggered by the shock of the cold water in the pool beneath the Tarzan Swing. The water on the ride and in that swimming area was 50–60 °F (10–16 °C), while other water areas were in the 70–80 °F (21–27 °C) range, more typical of swimming ...
The hatchback that collided with a semitruck in Oklahoma earlier this week, killing all six high school students inside, made a rolling stop before it was struck, federal authorities said Thursday.
(Reuters) -At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S. Southern Plains, while weather ...
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.
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