The potential cause of the fatal bus accident in Mississippi that left two young siblings and five other passengers dead, and several others injured, has been revealed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the early Saturday morning crash was believed to be caused by “tire failure.” “The NTSB, in coordination with the Mississippi...
At least seven people have died and dozens more were injured Saturday after a bus overturned along Interstate 20 in Mississippi, officials say. The Mississippi Highway Patrol says the one-vehicle crash involving a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus happened around 12:40 a.m. near Bovina in Warren County. “Six passengers were pronounced deceased on the scene,...
A small plane with two people on board crashed Saturday morning into a row of townhouses in a residential neighborhood of Fairview not far from the Portland International Airport and Troutdale Airport in Oregon, officials confirmed. The crash killed the plane’s occupants and one resident in the townhouse it struck, the Associated Press, citing local...
On this day in history, Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana — causing massive destruction. Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast early that morning as a large Category 3 hurricane, according to multiple sources. Sustained winds were around 145 mph in southeast Louisiana. Katrina continued northward, affecting areas near...
The collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people following heavy rains, a U.N. agency said. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said late Monday, citing local officials, that the actual number of fatalities from the...
The captain of the superyacht that sank off the coast of Italy last week during severe weather, killing seven, is under probe by Italian prosecutors. James Cutfield, 51, of New Zealand, is under investigation on suspicion of manslaughter and culpable shipwreck, Italian media reported Monday. He and 15 others survived the sinking of the Bayesian....
Six U.S. service members and other civilian personnel were injured at McConnell Air Force Base on Sunday after a heavy storm forced the cancellation of a planned airshow that was expected to draw thousands. McConnell Air Force Base, located in Wichita, Kansas, reported that 10 people suffered “minor injuries during a slow-moving wet microburst that...
Search and rescue teams recovered the final missing person from a luxury superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, the Italian coast guard has said. The woman’s body was discovered in the wreckage and brought ashore on Friday. She has not been identified. However, Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike...
Investigators in the superyacht sinking off the coast of Sicily that left seven people dead earlier this week are considering manslaughter charges in the case, judicial sources told Reuters. The public prosecutor’s office of Termini Imerese in Sicily is investigating possible negligence on the part of the crew of the yacht when it was besieged...
An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue. The collection of a tiny sample of the debris inside the Unit 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel would start the fuel...
