But while the disaster is undoubtedly catastrophic, it isn’t unprecedented: Between 1960 and 2015, 35 major bridges around the world collapsed ... about seven of the worst bridge disasters ...

In the period between 1961 to 2025, 14 US, 4 USSR and 1 Israeli astronaut died. In addition to these incidents, 11 astronauts, test pilots, and other personnel have been killed during training or ...

Seventy-five years ago, a plane crash on a scale the world had never seen before happened in a tiny Welsh village. The ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

Each brought world ... history. Wednesday's collision between a commercial airplane and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport became the latest in a list of midair ...

It was the worst home front disaster in World War II. Over 10,000 tons of explosives detonated, sinking two ships and killing over 300 sailors, most of whom were African-American. Many of the ...

The crash of a C124 Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953, killing 129 U.S. servicemen, was the world’s worst single-plane disaster. The greatest catastrophe in aviation history occurred in 1960 ...

He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

Eschede, Germany June 3rd, 1998 In the world's deadliest high-speed train ... Harmelen, Netherlands, January 8th, 1962 In the worst train crash in the country's history, 93 are killed when two ...

A Royal Air Force flypast brought to a close a commemoration to mark 75 years since what was then the world’s worst air disaster devastated a Welsh village. On 12 March 1950, an Avro Tudor ...