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The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army 's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne training operation. [1][2][3] As of 2024, this incident has the largest number of ground fatalities for an accidental ...
0. On 25 December 2016, a Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, Russia, while en route to Khmeimim Air Base, Syria. All 92 passengers and crew on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble choir of the Russian Armed Forces, were ...
An airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS, usually pronounced as ay-kas) operates independently of ground-based equipment and air traffic control in warning pilots of the presence of other aircraft that may present a threat of collision. If the risk of collision is imminent, the system recommends a maneuver that will reduce the risk of ...
SS Charles Henderson, unloading accident in Bari, Italy, 9 April 1945. SS Canada Victory, Logan Victory and Hobbs Victory each with 6,000 pounds of ammunition sank after kamikaze attacks caused an explosion near Okinawa in 1945. SS Green Hill Park, 1945 incident in Vancouver similar to El Estero.
Altitude sickness, the mildest form being acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a harmful effect of high altitude, caused by rapid exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high elevation. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] People can respond to high altitude in different ways. Symptoms may include headaches, vomiting, tiredness, confusion, trouble sleeping, and dizziness ...
A Bell 412 helicopter of the Mexican Air Force crashed near the town of El Ventoso in the state of Durango. Three servicemembers died in the accident. [ 294 ] A Agusta-Bell 212 helicopter of the Austrian Air Force crashed in a field near Pramet, Ried im Innkreis. The helicopter caught fire and was destroyed.
A United States Navy Sikorsky HH-60H Seahawk crashed into the Pacific Ocean 16 miles (26 km) SW of San Diego, California. The aircraft was on a routine training flight and returning to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when the accident occurred off of Point Loma, California, killing all 5 members of its crew.
20 December. US Army Puerto Rican National Guard Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota, 07-02069, crashes in inclement weather off the coast of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, during a Counterdrug operation. All three crewmen and three passengers aboard are killed. This is the first incident involving the UH-72 airframe.