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He was thrown off his luge and over the sidewall of the track, striking an unpadded steel support pole at the end of the run. [20] [21] He was travelling at 143.6 km/h (89.2 mph) at the moment of impact. [22] Medics were at Kumaritashvili's side immediately after the crash. Both cardio-pulmonary and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation were performed. [21]
On August 21, 1995, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia flying from Atlanta to Gulfport, crashed in the community of Burwell between the cities Bowdon, Georgia and Carrollton, Georgia. 9 of the 29 passengers and crew on board were killed as a result of the accident.
A CIA Lockheed U-2A, 56-6693, Article 360, flown by Francis Gary Powers was shot down by a SA-2 (Guideline) missile near Degtyarsk in the Soviet Union during an overflight codenamed Operation GRAND SLAM, the twenty-fourth and most ambitious deep-penetration flight of the U-2 program. [16] Powers parachuted down and was captured.
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The LA wildfires across the state of California this week have taken the lives of 5 individuals and thousands displaced from their homes. These before and after pictures show the wildlife's ...
Guyed steel lattice mast 100 Aircraft collision Hit by a B-29. [4] Ochsenkopf, West Germany January 1958: Guyed steel tube mast 50 Ice Replaced by concrete tower KAYS-TV Tower, Hays, Kansas: May 29, 1959: Guyed steel tube mast 224 Storm with 105 kt winds [5] Top 150 m of the tower toppled. Replaced within three months by a mast 251 m tall.
A "G" model (tail number 57-6496, call sign "Quilt 03") from the 456th Bombardment Wing, Beale AFB, CA, attached to 72nd Strategic Wing, Andersen AFB, Guam, was shot down during an Operation Linebacker II mission.While flying over Hanoi, the aircraft was hit by enemy fire, a SA-2 surface-to-air missile, and crashed in Yên Viên. Two of the ...