Accidents

[clarke]

What is the worst transportation accident ever occuring in your city/town (air/ground)

[Buckeye Native 001]

That Northwest Airlines flight that crashed during takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport back in 1987 was bound for Orange County.

[Tall Steel]

August/2001/This didn't exactally happen in my town but really close, one night a boat was going though the canal and the lift bridge didn't go up in time and the boat crashed into the bridge. The boat was a big cargo ship and this happend in Welland. The cause of this accident is that the lift-bridge operator was drunk.

In my hometown which is Port Colborne the only accident that I know of that was bad was that at the end the road which I live on, someone was trying to turn onto the highway and another driver hit him and the car fliped on it's side. It was a real mess.

[BamaGrad04]

March 20, 1995 - ~ 200 car pileup on Mobile Bayway. Largest auto pileup in US History. Extremely dense fog was the cause.

March 3, 2006 - Cargo ship ZIM MEXICO III miscalculated its turning radius in the shipping channel and knocked over a ship-to-shore container crane, killing a crane worker

[urbanflyer]

4/26/94 - China Airlines flight 140, an Airbus A300-600 coming from Taipei, crashed while making its second attempt to land at Nagoya Komaki International. The pilots incorrectly set the autopilot and were fighting it for control of the plane. They eventually overcontrolled, stalled and crashed. 264 of 271 were killed.

[Daquan13]

July 31, 1973, Logan Int'l Airport, Boston - A Delta Airlines DC-9 hit a seawall while trying to land in fog, flipped over and crashed on the runway that it was supposed to land on.

All 89 passengers and crew were killed instantly. Some of the passengers were found on the ground still strapped to their seats!

A report had said that the tower (ATC's) was confused for 6 minutes after the accident.
The FAA had questioned whether those 6 minutes were very crucial in getting help to the victims to try to save some of them.


January, 1982, Logan Int'l Airport, Boston - A World Airways DC-10 had skidded off the icey runway during an attempted landing, overshot the runway and came to rest partially submerged in the water.

The complete nose section along with the cockpit came off. Two male passengers were reported missing and to this day, were never found. Everyone else had survived the mishap.

[Justin10000]

1970.

Air Canada crash in a field in Castlemore just east of my shithole suburban City of Brampton.
(The crash area is now a subdivision).

[alps]

• Halifax Explosion, 1917 - Two ships (one filled with munitions) collide in Halifax Harbour, causing a huge explosion, the largest before the atomic bomb tests. (~2000 fatalities)
• Swissair Flight 111, 1998 - Crashed into the sea while trying to land at Halifax International Airport (229 fatalities)
• MK Airlines Crash, 2004 - 747 crashed at the end of a runway at Halifax International Airport, killing all 7 crew members (cargo plane).

[toddguy]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

That Northwest Airlines flight that crashed during takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport back in 1987 was bound for Orange County.

The lone survivor of that crash( a four year old girl) happens to be doing well, graduated from college, and living in some southern city. She popped in on some site when the crash was being discussed, and even provided an email link.

[Buckeye Native 001]

September 10, 2006 Costa Mesa California:

My car's timing belt snaps, I lose power steering fluid and all other vital instrumentation on the northbound 55 Freeway. Final damage assessment: $3300 worth of work.

[staff]

Originally Posted by urbanflyer

4/26/94 - China Airlines flight 140, an Airbus A300-600 coming from Taipei, crashed while making its second attempt to land at Nagoya Komaki International. The pilots incorrectly set the autopilot and were fighting it for control of the plane. They eventually overcontrolled, stalled and crashed. 264 of 271 were killed.

China Airlines.

[Xelebes]

Wabuman Lake derailment of 2006

Train derailed right at Wabuman Lake, dumping thousands of tonnes of heavy bunker oil into the lake, making the whole towns nearby unhabitable for at least several months.

[Daquan13]

October, 1990, Back Bay Station, Boston - An Amtrak Train coming from New York City derails just before entering the station, crosses over onto one of the other tracks and slams into a commuter rail train.

The National Transportation Safety Board, upon final investigation, ruled that speed was the deciding factor. The Amtrak train was going way too fast before it entered the station. Also it was determined that an inexperienced driver was at the controls.

A support column was also knocked loose and had to be replaced. The service there for all trains except the Orange Line was shut down for months and was deverted over to the Midland Railroad that runs through Hyde Park. No deaths were reported, although there were some injuries.

[The Chemist]

Originally Posted by staff

China Airlines.

Never flown on them. What's so bad about them?

[staff]

Originally Posted by The Chemist

Never flown on them. What's so bad about them?

I think they have one of the worst accident records of any airline in the world. However, they went through some kind of change a number of years ago, and fired a lot of pilots among other things.

I've flown them HKG-TPE and it was an ok experience - although if you going to fly a Taiwanese carrier I'd suggest EVA Air instead.

[MayorOfChicago]

The steamboat Eastland rolled on its side on the Chicago river in downtown Chicago in 1915. 844 people died.

[Daquan13]

Boston, Dorchester Ave.

Just earlier this week on Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, after dropping off an elderly passenger in front of a community center, a cab driver had allegedly mistakingly put the vehicle in reverse, stepped on the gas pedal and crashed into that passenger and two others, knocking over a bench and a fire hydrant and pinning the passenger under the vehicle.

The passenger later died at the hospital as a result of her injuries, and the other two people were reportedly in serious but stable condition. So far, no charges were filed against the taxi driver.

[hauntedheadnc]

July 1967 -- Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Boeing 727 en route from Asheville to Washington, DC collided with a Cessna over Hendersonville and crashed, with the whole mess slamming down not a hundred feet from a crowded summer camp. 82 people died, including John T. McNaughton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, who had flown in to pick up his son from another summer camp.

This was a particularly traumatic crash. It was messy -- there were body parts raining down all over the eastern end of Hendersonville, including one flight attendant who crashed through the roof of a house and landed neat as you please on the living room sofa with her legs crossed and her arms thrown back as though she was relaxing in front of the television.

[urbanflyer]

^ no thanks

staff, most China Airlines crews are now foreign ex-pats. They fired most of their ex taiwan AF pilots and revamped their training program after that Mandarin Airlines HK crash landing in 1999. Korean Air has made similar changes.

[Daquan13]

July 2001, Logan Int'l Airport, Boston - A Cape Air 10-seat Cessna flips over on takeoff, catching fire.

Officials had ruled that it became caught up and stuck in the wake turbulence of a 757 whick took off just mere minutes before it. The pilot, the only one onboard, was able to get out and walk away from the smouldering wreckage virtually unharmed.