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On 20 May 1905, three elevator accidents occurred in New York City within the span of a few hours, killing two men and one woman. [ 71 ] On 28 July 1945, a U.S. Army plane crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City , causing an elevator to fall 75 stories (more than 300 meters or 1,000 feet).
A representative from ATAC, Rome's public transport company, issued a statement that "all maintenance checks of the escalator were carried out regularly and the results were in accordance to the norms." [10] Police after studying the accident footage concluded that the fans were not jumping on the escalator. The CSKA fans released a statement ...
The 2006 Minato Ward elevator accident was an incident in June 2006 which shook Japanese public confidence in the safety of elevators around the country. In June 2006, in Minato, Tokyo, a 16-year-old high school student was killed by an elevator maintained by SEC Elevator Co Ltd ("SEC") but originally manufactured and maintained by another elevator manufacturer and maintenance company.
A terrifying escalator accident caught on camera at Repubblica metro station in Rome, Italy, left nearly two dozen people injured on Tuesday, Reuters reports.. The majority of those involved are ...
The young boy's death adds to the recent series of terrible escalator accidents, especially in China, over the past few months. It is the second fatal escalator tragedy in China since June, when a ...
On September 28, 2023, the NTSB released the probable cause of the accident. The NTSB stated the jammed elevators prevented the airplane from rotating during the takeoff. The jammed elevators condition was caused by dynamic high wind while parked like the Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 accident in 2017.
1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania: Dam: 89 dead, 76 injured 1972: Buffalo Creek Flood: West Virginia, US: Dam: 125 dead, 1,121 injured 1972: Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower: Königs Wusterhausen, Germany: Lattice tower: 1973 Skyline Towers collapse: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, US Building under ...
[1] [2] Early reports suggested a power surge or a terrorist attack to be the cause of the derailment, but both were soon dismissed. This accident was the deadliest ever recorded in the history of the Moscow metro system, and the second to occur due to a technical failure (after the 1982 Aviamotornaya escalator accident). [3]