The Land's End disaster occurred at Land's End, western Cornwall, England on 6 May 1985. Four pupils from Stoke Poges School drowned after they were swept...
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complex is the Land's End Hotel. On 6 May 1985, four schoolchildren died in what is known as the Land's End disaster. In May 2012, Land's End received worldwide...
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A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches...
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A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone...
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An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity. This...
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guidance of the Health and Safety Executive. Cairngorm Plateau disaster Land's End disaster "Fatal catalogue of 'simple errors' | Tes Magazine". www.tes...
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The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...
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seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986. The mission, designated...
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A maritime disaster is an event which usually involves a ship or ships and can involve military action. Because of the nature of maritime travel, there...
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The Heysel Stadium disaster (Italian: Strage dell'Heysel [ˈstraːdʒe delleiˈzɛl]; German: Katastrophe von Heysel [ˌkataˈstʁoːfə fɔn ˈhaɪzl̩]; French: Drame...
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List of Mayday episodes (redirect from List of Mayday: Air Disaster episodes)
United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian...
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A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the...
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mission; the launch and subsequent disaster were seen live in many schools across the United States. The cause of the disaster was the failure of the primary...
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St. Francis Dam (redirect from St. Francis Dam Disaster)
is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California...
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The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife...
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Lake Peigneur (redirect from Jefferson Island disaster)
human activity caused an unusual disaster on November 20, 1980, that changed its structure and the surrounding land. In petroleum geology, the formation...
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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston...
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Emergency management (redirect from Disaster relief)
Emergency management (also disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability...
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The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing...
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Penlee. The Sennen Cove Lifeboat found it impossible to make headway round Land's End. The Lizard Lifeboat found a serious hole in its hull when it finally...
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Titan submersible implosion (redirect from 2023 Titan submersible disaster)
wreck of Andrea Doria aboard their other submersible Cyclops 1. (A near disaster on that expedition was recounted in Vanity Fair in 2023.) In 2019, Rush...
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The Seongsu Bridge disaster was a deadly bridge collapse that occurred on the morning of October 21, 1994 in Seoul, South Korea. 32 people died and 17...
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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (redirect from List of dates of the end of the world)
Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ. End-time events are normally predicted to occur within the lifetime of the person...
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leading to disaster (21:45 UTC+1) and grounding (23:00 UTC+1) Route leading to disaster compared to route of 14 August 2011 Timeline of the disaster Closeup...
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The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974...
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The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport...
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Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse (redirect from Novi Sad disaster)
expressed regret over the disaster. Government ministers, Prime Minister of Serbia Miloš Vučević and Đurić visited the disaster site. President of Serbia...
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Fukushima nuclear accident (redirect from 2011 Nuclear Disaster)
Fukushima nuclear disaster". The Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2 December 2022. HANAWA, KAZUNARI. "Fukushima cleanup costs swell with no end in sight". Nikkei...
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The Genthin rail disaster occurred on 22 December 1939, when an express train crashed into a stationary express train in Genthin station, in today's Saxony-Anhalt...
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The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is an Indian specialised force constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005. : section 44–45 The responsibility...
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