A disaster is an unexpected natural or unintentional man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant property damage or destruction, loss of lives or sometimes permanent changes to natural environment.
Disasters may also be used to refer to unforseen events which devastate a company or industry such as a public relations disaster or a major flop[?].
An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).
On the tape from the recovered cockpit voice recorder, an explosion was heard, followed by a rush of air out of the plane.
It was the worst airdisaster of all time until the Tenerife Disaster of 1977, and the worst single-airplane disaster before the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 in 1985.
The aircraft that crashed at Ermenonville had been certified by three inspectors at Convair's Long Beach plant as having been modified, but nothing had actually been done; indeed, a manufacturing error meant that the door latch was even flimsier than on other unmodified DC-10s.
Ermenonville is a town and commune 45 kilometers North-East of Paris, in the Oise département of France.
Rousseau's tomb, in fact, is prominently situated on the artificial island in the lake at Ermenonville.
An imitation of Rousseau's Island at Ermenonville was produced in Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, Germany.
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The precise number of fatalities is not known because the roll of the regiment was destroyed in the fire.
The disaster was made much worse by fire caused by wooden carriages and gas lighting.
The Hawes Junction train disaster of 1910 also involved a busy signalman forgetting about a train on the main line, but because the signalman there was fully focussed on his job, his momentary lapse may be more excusable.
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A disaster is a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry, often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment.
Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive.
Zagreb airdisaster mid-air collision between a British Airways Trident and a Inex-Adria DC-9 (September 10, 1976) 176 killed
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The Ermenonvilleairdisaster was the high-speed crash of a DC-10 on this route into a forest at Ermenonville, France.
All 346 people aboard were killed in the accident, a large number of these were English rugby fans who had transfered to the plane after their own flight had been canceled due to a strike in London.
A disaster is an unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant property damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent changes to the natural environment.
Disasters may also be unforeseen events which devastate a company or industry, such as a public relations disaster or a major flop.
'Disaster' comes from the Italian desastro, which means "unfavourable to one's stars", ultimately from the Greek astron (star), and reflects the key characteristic of a disaster which is its unintentional nature.
Climatic disaster if 535 AD, triggered by an Indonesian volcanic eruption,; grassland failures spurred migrations of Avars and others; plagues, collapse of Late Antiquity (David Keys theory, in Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, 2000.
The Blitz, (German massive bombing), caused the deaths of an estimated 42,000 civilians in major British cities.
Mount Erebus disaster in Antarctica (November 28 1979)
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This is a list of accidents and incidents on commerical airliners grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred.
March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Ermenonvilleairdisaster)
January 8 - British Midlands Flight 92 (Kegworth airdisaster)
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The Ermenonvilleairdisaster was the high-speed crash of a DC-10 on this route into a forest at
All 346 people aboard were killed in the accident, a large number of these were English rugby fans who had transfered to the plane after their own flight had been canceled due to a strike in
Ship 29, the one that crashed at Ermenonville, had been certified by three inspectors at Convair's
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Secondary effects on infrastructure: CSX train's derailment and fire in Howard Street Tunnel interfered with East Coast telephone network and Internet.
MRI Scanner: high magnetic field pulled in steel air tank, fatally injuring child being examined in scanner.
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This is a List of accidents and incidents on commerical airliners grouped by location of the incident
All Nippon Airways Flight 61 - Hijacked and taken back over Tokyo, Japan
TWA Flight 800 - Crashed off the coast of Long Island
