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Instead, he struck a bridge at high speed and died immediately. [116] [196] Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2003). While filming an episode near Kingman, Arizona, a filming-helicopter flew into a power line. David Gibbs, the helicopter pilot, had his pilot's license suspended for the accident. His family sued the company that made the show.
July 10 – Italy – A Pompeii -Naples and Naples- Herculaneum commuter train collided head-on in Cercola near Mount Vesuvius, Naples, killing 14 people and injuring 70. [ 88] August 21 – Thailand – A head-on collision of freight and passenger trains at Taling Chan killed 52 people and injured about 200.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
Unstoppable. (2010 film) Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.
High-speed railways; ... By death toll; Terrorist incidents; ... Classification of railway accidents; Derailment; Rail transport; Train wreck; Tram accident; Train ...
One of El Paso's greatest athletic legends is taking a microphone. Ed Stansbury, a grad of Irvin and UCLA, where he was a football standout, will team up with KTSM evening anchor Andy Morgan for ...
Crash ultimately doomed Wisconsin's only rapid transit line [ 154] 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, New York City; 78 killed plus hundreds injured in deadliest surface rail accident in New York. [ 155] 1951 Woodbridge train wreck, Woodbridge, New Jersey; ~85 killed plus hundreds injured.
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The scene of the collision was a curved section of single ...