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10 Feb 2011 12:16

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World: Tragedy strikes at south Ireland’s Cork Airport

  • three number of attempts a small Irish airplane made at landing at Cork Airport; it was having trouble touching down due to low visibility
  • six number of people killed on the third attempt, which sent 6 other people to the hospital for wounds of varying severity source
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18 Jan 2010 10:42

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World: Optimism amid devastation: Survivors still being found in Haiti

After the first 72 hours of a catastrophe of this magnitude, hope of finding survivors is usually lost. They’ve found 60 as of Sunday. source
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01 Jan 2010 18:50

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World: Mudslides turn a Brazilian island resort into a disaster zone

  • 15+ have died in the mudslides, which hit on New Year’s Eve
  • 10+ were injured; authorities are searching for survivors now source
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22 Jun 2009 21:34

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U.S.: Survivors note how scary the D.C. Metro incident was

  • It happened so quick. The floor smushed up. It was lifted up. I saw the debris flying toward me. I was choking on the smoke.
  • Brianna Milstead • A 17-year-old high school student who was in the colliding train’s front car when it crashed into a train held up by traffic. The train crashed spectacularly, raising the car Milstead was in on top of the other one and tearing out its floor. Another survivor in the center of the storm, Marcie Bacchus, 30, put it succinctly: “The front of the train just opened up.” • source
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22 Jan 2009 09:08

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U.S.: Passengers of the Hudson River crash make bank

  • $5,000 for NYC jet crash passengers source
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