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=Train wreck= Please add Geni profiles of people who died in any sort of train related incident to this project. Do consider spinning off big accidents into separate but related projects. A train wreck or train crash is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track; or an ac...
In spite of the stormy weather, the atmosphere at Mount Maunganui on 28 December 1950 was one of festivity. World War II had ended five years previously, the decision earlier that year to establish a deep-water port would bring new opportunities, and the town was packed with holidaymakers. Before the day’s end though, a tragedy would occur that would leave rescuers bleeding and bruised and the ...
The Hartford Circus Fire , which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. The fire killed at least 167 people and more than 700 were injured.This project is a memorial to...
At 9:09am on 3 July 1963, 23 people died in what remains New Zealand's worst internal aviation disaster. As a National Airways Corporation DC-3 plane began its descent towards Tauranga in poor weather it was suddenly caught in severe turbulence and slammed into a ridge on the Kaimai Range, killing all on board. Story and profiles researched and written by Debbie McCauley (3 July 2013, recently ...