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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 (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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    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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    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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    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 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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