A British fighter airplane called a Hawker Hunter has reportedly crashed in Southern England during the Shoreham Airshow with a number of casualties. Below are two different views of the crash we've found so far...
According to reports from people witnessing the crash, the jet was performing a loop when it crashed at the end of the maneuver. It hit several cars on a nearby highway, before ending up in a bush, police said in a statement. Roads near the site were closed after the incident.
Around 20 people have been reportedly injured in a crane mishap in a Dutch town in western Netherlands, and the falling cranes were all captured on camera...
The accident occurred when the two heavy cranes were trying to lift a large part of a prefabricated bridge in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn.
The two cranes were placed on top of a barge on a canal for the renovation of the Juliana bridge.
As the cranes lifted the large piece it slowly tilted onto its side, causing it to topple. It was soon followed by the second crane and piece of bridge, and all three fell onto a shop selling second hand goods and an artists' supply store. - 9news.com.au
After reaching the top of an escalator, 30-year-old Xiang Liujuan was killed after she fell through a gap that suddenly opened up and swallowed her at a department store in Jingzhou city, Hubei province in China. She was with her two-year-old son at the time but she managed to push her son up to safety with the aide of shopping assistants and surveillance footage captured the entire moments on camera.
The young boy looked on as his mother was tragically pulled into the machinery. Xiang was reportedly shopping at the mall with her husband at the time, but he had not yet made it to the elevator on the fifth floor.
Damaged escalator after the incident | Source
The woman’s family wants to spread awareness of this tragedy and to the mall’s escalator safety by publicizing this story.
“Facing the loss of a lively human being, our whole family is shocked and unable to react,” her sister-in-law wrote in a blog post. “We don’t know how to save all the proof about my brother’s wife’s suffering, so what we can do is to count on the media to record what happened.”
Incidentally, there have been other escalator malfunctions in China in the last few years:
Plus two other more recent incidences in shopping malls according to CNN:
In southwestern Guangxi province, a toddler’s left hand and arm were caught in a gap of an escalator on Monday after he tripped and fell at the bottom, firefighters told local media. He suffered multiple trauma, including a fractured arm, and was hospitalized.
In Beijing, a boy’s foot was stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall on Sunday, according to People’s Daily. He was rescued by firefighters within half an hour and appeared only slightly injured, witnesses told the newspaper.
After taking four hours to rescue Xiang, she was pronounced dead. Loose screws on the footplate were allegedly unsecured and staff found out minutes before the disaster that the escalator was malfunctioning yet no actions were taken to examine it – or stop it entirely.
The recent earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest killing at least 17 people at Base Camp. Dozens of teams were training and acclimatizing themselves to higher altitudes as they prepared to make summit attempts in the next few weeks, when the avalanche hit.
A German photographer captured the moment the avalanche came down on a group of people.
"The ground is shaking," a climber calls out. The others laugh in response. Seconds later the group of men start running as they see a massive cloud of snow coming towards them.
With no time left to spare, the men went behind a yellow tent in an attempt to take cover. Seconds later, the climbers are buried and are heard gasping for air...
