Kaprun disaster - Kaprun disaster The Kaprun disaster is the fire that broke out in the tunnel of the funicular train in Kaprun, Austria on November 11, 2000. In this disaster 155 passengers lost their lives. Nearly one year after the fire the official inquiry determined the cause of the disaster - it was a faulty heater in the train and highly flammable hydraulic brake oil. The train (white) can be seen waiting at the valley station. It enters the tunnel where the fire occurred (entrance just visible as a black dot) after a short open-air section on trestles. The victims were skiers who wanted to reach the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier : 92 Austrians 37 Germans 10 Japanese 8 Americans 4 Slovenians 2 Dutch 1 Briton 1 Czech.
List of disasters - 1900) 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco, California (April 18, 1906) Halifax explosion, Halifax, Nova Scotia (December 6, 1917) The Boston Molasses Disaster, Boston, Massachusetts (January 15 1919) The Bombay Explosion, Victoria Dock Bombay, India (April 14 1944) Texas City Explosion, Texas City, Texas, (April 16, 1947) 24 hours of Le Mans disaster, France, (June 11, 1955) The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, Midwest, United States (April 11, 1965) Aberfan disaster, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (October 21, 1966) Ibrox disaster, Glasgow, Scotland (January 2, 1971) Summerland disaster, Isle of Man (August 2, 1973) Hyatt Hotel disaster, Kansas City, Missouri (July 17 1981) Heysel Stadium disaster, Brussels, Belgium (May 29, 1985) Hillsborough disaster, Sheffield, England (April 15, 1989) Bijlmerramp disaster, Bijlmerramp, Netherlands (October 4 1992) Enschede fireworks disaster, Enschede, Netherlands (May 13, 2000) Kaprun.
Funicular - United States, USA Graz, Austria Gütschbahn, Lucerne, Switzerland Hastings, England Harderbahn, Interlaken, Switzerland Hong Kong Victoria Peak Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA (Run as part of the tourist attaction. Istanbul, Turkey (underground) Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA Lykavittos, Athens Lyon, France Montjuïc, Barcelona Montserrat (mountain), Catalonia Montmartre, Paris, France Mendelbahn, South Tyrol, Italy, build in 1903 Naples, Italy Nazaré, Portugal Penang, Malaysia Quebec City Tibidabo, Barcelona Vallvidrera, Barcelona Wellington, New Zealand (Kelburn Cable Car) Wiesbaden, Germany (using water as weight to move the cars) Zagreb, Croatia See also British funicular railways External Links Funimag, the first web magazine about funiculars Urban Mountain Railways and People Movers Fløibanen funicular in Bergen See Also Kaprun disaster Public transport Skiing and Skiing Topics.
Kegworth air disaster - Kegworth air disaster The Kegworth Air Disaster occured on January 8, 1989, when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, G-OBME owned by British Midland crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway, short of the runway of East Midlands airport, Leicestershire, close to the village of Kegworth. 47 of the 118 passengers lost their lives (39 at the scene, 8 later). All eight of the flight crew survived the accident. Of the 79 survivors, 5 had minor injuries and 74 were seriously injured. Surprisingly, no one on the motorway was hurt (and no vehicles damaged). The aircraft was on a scheduled flight from Heathrow airport to Belfast in Northern Ireland, the attempted unscheduled landing at East Midlands being due to an in-flight emergency which had occurred. After.
Heysel Stadium disaster - Heysel Stadium disaster The Heysel Stadium disaster was an event that took place at the 1985 football European Cup final in the Heysel suburb of Brussels, Belgium. On May 29, 1985, Liverpool F.C played Juventus in the European Cup Final, held at the Heysel Stadium. In a widely criticized move, the Belgian authorities had allocated a section of the ground to neutral fans. This was an idea opposed by Liverpool and Juventus, as it would easily provide an arena for fans who obtained tickets from Belgian ticket touts outside the ground to clash. A flimsy wire fence had been erected to segregate the fans. After a rain of missiles from the Italian fans inside the neutral area fell upon the Liverpool fans, the Liverpool fans charged at and.
Hindenburg disaster - Hindenburg disaster On May 6, 1937, at 19:25 the German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was utterly destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Although the disaster is famous, of the 97 people on board, only 35 died. The LZ-129 Hindenburg was the largest aircraft ever. The craft was named after President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. He (German airships have always been referred to in the masculine) was a brand-new all aluminium design: 245 m long (804 feet), 41 m in diameter (135 ft), containing 211,890 m3 of gas in 16 bags or cells, with a useful lift of 112 tons, powered by four 1100 horsepower engines giving it a maximum speed of.
Hillsborough disaster - Hillsborough disaster The Hillsborough Disaster occurred on April 15, 1989 on a football field in England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives. Liverpool F.C were involved in their 17th FA Cup Semi-Final, to be played against Nottingham Forest F.C at Hillsborough, the home of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. The game started just like any other, but with only 6 minutes played, the referee called a halt to the game. An influx of supporters in the Leppings Lane end of the ground (the Liverpool supporters' end) was causing a crush. This crush ultimately took the lives of 96 people. A permanent tribute to those who tragically lost their lives can be found alongside the Shankly Gates at Anfield. A further tribute was set up in 1999 at Hillsborough..
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage - Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage is a 1937 documentary film which shows the burning, explosion, and crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg. (See Hindenburg disaster.) The narration is done by the on-the-scene reporter Herbert Morrison, who was there to watch the zeppelin's arrival in the United States. Morrison was a radio reporter whose commentary was recorded and not broadcast until later. It has been combined with the separately filmed newsreel footage. To modern eyes, the result may appear to have been a live broadcast with pictures and sound, but it was not. The documentary has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Quotation "Oh, the humanity!" See Herbert Morrison for more details on the broadcast..
Hyatt Hotel disaster - Hyatt Hotel disaster The Hyatt Hotel disaster happened on July 17, 1981 during a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Two concrete walkways suspended above the hotel atrium collapsed onto the crowded dance floor, killing 114 people. Only four days after the disaster, Wayne Lischka, a structural engineer hired by the Kansas City Star newspaper, discovered that the disaster was caused by unauthorized change in the design of the walkways. The construction engineers' original design featured two walkways one above the other, hanging from continuous rods attached to the ceiling. However, this design was in fact impossible to build as drawn, as it would have required the whole of the rod below the fourth floor to be threaded, in order to screw on.
Ukraine airshow disaster - Ukraine airshow disaster On July 27, 2002 at an airshow at Skhyliv airport near Lviv, Ukraine, 84 people were killed and over 100 injured when a Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft crashed. It is the world's worst airshow disaster to date. The aircraft, flown by two experienced pilots, was reported to have lost power before clipping trees, at which point the pilots ejected. The plane hit a stationary aircraft and burst into flames, then slid into the crowd. Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma publicly blamed the military for the disaster and sacked the head of the air force, Volodymyr Strelnykov. The defence minister, Volodymyr Shkidchenko resigned. The Interfax news agency reported, from a Sukhoi source, that "after the Soviet Union's breakup, planes have been operated with serious technical violations in Ukraine..
Granville railway disaster - Granville railway disaster On January 18, 1977, Australia experienced its worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The crowded 6.09 am commuter train from Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains to Sydney left the rails, and hit a support of an overhead road bridge constructed from concrete and steel. The bridge, and several cars which were on top of it, crashed down on top of several carriages, crushing them. In all, 83 people died and many others were badly injured. Recently, an Australian movie was made of the disaster, titled 'Day of the Roses'. External Links Danger Ahead A policeman's story.
Kalpana Chawla - campaign to honor teachers, as well as nearly two dozen CDs, including ones by Abida Parveen, Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar, and Deep Purple. She went to her first rock concert, a Deep Purple show, in 2001 with her husband. "Kalpana is not necessarily a rock music aficionado," her husband said of a Deep Purple show they went to in 2001. "But (she) nevertheless characterized the show as a 'spiritual experience.'" The administrator for the Hindu temple in Houston where Chawla attended when her schedule permitted said "She was a nice lady ... and very pious." Memoria Shortly after her last mission, India renamed its first weather satellite Kalpana-1 in her honor. She died a hero and a role-model for many young women, especially in India and particularly those in her hometown.
Karel Doorman - a battle was fought between the Combined Strike Force and a much stronger Japanese task force in the Java Sea. This battle proved a disaster for the Allies. Doorman became a Dutch maritime icon, after transmitting his last words to the fleet: "I am attacking, all ships follow me!" ("Ik val aan, alle schepen volg mij!"). Karel Doorman died when his flagship De Ruyter (named after the famous Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) was struck by a torpedo and went under. There was time to escape the sinking flagship, but Doorman chose to go under, according to old naval tradition. In his honour the only Dutch carrier ever was named Hr. Ms. Karel Doorman. This ship was commissioned in 1945 by the British service as the HMS Venerable. It was sold.
Kate Tufts Discovery Award - the Water 1999 - Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow 2000 - Terrance Hayes, Muscular Music 2001 - Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender 2002 - Cate Marvin, World's Tallest Disaster 2003 - Joanie Mackowski, The Zoo See also: List of poetry awards.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - material of his new command he could do nothing against the French revolutionary troops, and before long, being in actual danger of being murdered by his men, he took refuge in the French camp. He was promised a free pass to his own country, but Napoleon ordered that he should be sent to France as a prisoner of war. Two years later he escaped from Paris in disguise. The allegation that he broke his parole is false. He was not employed for some years, but in 1804, when the war party in the Austrian court needed a general to oppose the peace policy of the Archduke Charles, Mack was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He did all that was possible within the.
Kaimai Ranges - Skyliner ZK-AYZ Hastings crashed into the ranges during a flight from Whenuapai Airport, Auckland to Tauranga. All 25 aboard the flight died, making it the worst air disaster on mainland New Zealand. The Kaimai railway tunnel runs for 9 km under the ranges, making it the longest tunnel in New Zealand. Construction of the tunnel started from both sides of the range in 1969, they finally met up in 1976..
KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff - that 400 members of the Women's Auxiliary of the German Navy, died almost instantly after the second torpedo hit almost directly under the empty swimming pool in which they were sitting. The mass panic that followed the torpedo hits resulted in an increased loss of life, as many of the refugees ignored orders to allow women and children to disembark first, instead trampling each other in a mad rush for access to the few lifeboats and life jackets available. Some equipment was lost as a further result of the panic. It is estimated that of the approximately 5000 to 7000 refugees and over 1000 soldiers and sailors on board at the time, only 1239 passengers survived, saved by German vessels in the vicinity. Some modern studies of the disaster place the.
Kenny Dalglish - He later went on to become player-manager and then manager of Liverpool, following Joe Fagin as manager of the club in aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985. His managerial career mirrored his playing career in its success, and he became the first manager of a Liverpool team to win the "double" of the League Championship and F.A. Cup in the same season. He was in charge of the club at the time of the Hillsborough disaster in the 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest F.C. His dignity and bearing during these tragedies was exemplary, but ultimately took its toll on his health. Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool in 1991. He returned to management after a short break with Blackburn Rovers F.C, who he lead into the English.
Kerry Packer - gambling and tourism ventures, notably the Crown casino in Melbourne. Stuff to mention: Father Sir Frank Packer. World Series Cricket Alan Bond. political views The One-Tel disaster. James Packer..
Kegworth - motorway and is very close to East Midlands Airport. As a result of its closeness to the airport, it was the site of the Kegworth air disaster in 1989. Nearby places include Long Eaton, Castle Donington, Shepshed, and Loughborough. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
