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Four people are missing after two boats crashed and sank on the Colorado River, ejecting more than a dozen people who were on board, authorities said Sunday. A recreational boat carrying 10 people and another vessel with six people on board collided head-on Saturday night ...
Skipper to be relieved of command, sailors face punishment over U.S. warship collision off Japan
The skipper, executive officer and master chief petty officer of the USS Fitzgerald will be relieved of duty over its collision with a freighter south of Tokyo Bay in June.
Passengers injured in shuttle boat accident at Kobe Airport facility
One woman became unresponsive and 14 others were injured after a passenger boat rammed into a navigation aid near Kobe Airport, the Japan Coast Guard said Thursday. Twenty-nine people were aboard when the accident took place at around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, just before the boat ...
The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald will return home for repairs following its fatal collision last month with a Filipino freighter south of Tokyo Bay, a naval official said Friday. Seven crew members died in the collision on June 17. Whether the crew of ...
Two cargo ships collided Friday morning in the Seto Inland Sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, killing two men and injuring another, the Japan Coast Guard has said. The dead were identified as Fumihiko Kita, 50, the captain of the 499-ton Yamato Maru No. 8, and ...
Speeding Russian space junk forces ISS trio to 'shelter in place' in Soyuz escape capsule
A piece of space junk forced the three space station astronauts to seek emergency shelter Thursday. For nearly an hour, the American and two Russians hunkered down in their Soyuz capsule, which is docked to the International Space Station, in case they had to make ...
Passenger train derails in collision with truck in North Carolina; several hurt
A passenger train hit a tractor-trailer rig that stalled on railroad tracks in North Carolina, toppling the engine onto its side and injuring several people, officials said Monday. Sheriff's Chief Deputy Bruce Temple said the accident happened around noon in the town of Halifax. The first ...
A fisheries high school in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Tuesday marked the 14th anniversary of an accident in which an U.S. nuclear submarine surfaced beneath a school training boat off Hawaii, sinking it and killing nine occupants. About 300 people, including students and relatives of ...
At least 10 people were killed Wednesday when a bus carrying state prisoners skidded off an icy highway overpass in Texas, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing train, a county sheriff said. The overpass on Interstate 20 was slick with ice Wednesday ...
Two elderly residents of Osaka Prefecture were killed Sunday evening and five people suffered various injuries in a four-vehicle collision in the prefectural city of Yao. Masaru Shinohara, an 80-year-old company executive of Higashi-Osaka, and Haruko Abe, a self-employed, 70-year-old resident of Daito, died after ...
Two people drowned and four were missing at sea and feared dead after two merchant ships collided in rough seas off the Italian coast on Sunday, Italian officials said. A Turkish ship with 11 crew members sank after the collision with a vessel carrying a ...
Some Christmas fliers got their wings clipped — literally. Two jets at New York's LaGuardia Airport got a little too close for comfort Tuesday morning, with one ripping the wingtip off the other. No passengers on either plane were injured. American Airlines Flight 1104 from Dallas ...
