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The captain of Flight 407 had slept for only 6 hours during the 24 hours before the accident, while the first officer had 8 hours of sleep in the same period. [ 2 ] : 18 [ a ] The captain had flown a total 99 hours during the prior month, 1 hour short of the maximum 100 flying hours allowed by Emirates, while the first officer had flown 90 ...
The Melbourne–Voyager collision, also known as the Melbourne–Voyager incident or simply the Voyager incident, was a collision between two warships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HMAS Voyager. On the evening of 10 February 1964, the two ships were performing manoeuvres off Jervis Bay.
By the time 5264 arrived at Kensington at 9:30 p.m. it was only 113 seconds behind 5262, putting both trains in grave danger. Asking the driver of 5262 to attempt to outrun the runaway would have placed the passenger-carrying train at great risk of a derailment, meaning Metrol's only option was to divert the runaway before it could collide with 5262. [11]
Melbourne hit Evans amidships at 3:15 am, cutting the destroyer in two. [10] The paths taken by HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans in the minutes leading up to the collision. Melbourne stopped immediately after the collision and deployed her boats, liferafts and lifebuoys, before carefully maneuvering alongside the stern section of Evans. [11]
On 21 February 2017, at 8:59 am local time, a Beechcraft B200 King Air aircraft operating a charter flight, carrying a pilot and four passengers bound for King Island, crashed seconds after taking off from Essendon Airport in Melbourne, Australia. [2] [1] Four American passengers and the Australian pilot died in the crash.
[10] [1] [11] Victoria Police officers from the Critical Incident Response Team shot the driver in the right arm and also tasered him before his arrest. [12] [11] [1] A child and two adults died at the scene, [13] another man died in hospital before the end of the day, and a three-month-old baby boy died the next day in the evening. [14]
When 16-month-old Jackson Taylor got in a car accident that decapitated his head, doctors didn't know if he would survive. ... — 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) September 29, 2015.
On 20 February 2020, two people, confirmed to be the train driver and a safe working person were killed near Wallan after a Melbourne-bound XPT derailed at approximately 7:45pm. Numerous other injuries occurred and one person was airlifted to Melbourne. [83] [84] [85]