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Japan Airlines Flight 123(Japan, 1985)Mechanical failure caused
crashCharkhi Dadri mid-air collision (India,1996) Mid-air collision
caused by pilot error
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (France, 1974)Explosive
decompression of a DC-10
Air India Flight 182 (AtlanticOcean, 1985) Bombing
Structural collapses
Collapse of the Rana Plaza(Savar Upazila, Dhaka District,
Bangladesh, April, 2013)
Sampoong Department Storecollapse (Seoul, South Korea,June,
1995). Structural failure
Collapse of wooden bleachersat a bullring/stadium in
Colombia, (Jan., 1980)
Makahali River (Nepal) bridgecollapsed, (Nov., 1974)
Six-storey apartment collapsed
(Karachi, Pakistan, Sept., 1976)
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Sporting events
Happy Valley Racecourse (Hong Kong) fire(Feb., 1918) Unclear as
to how it started
1964 Lima football riot tragedy (Lima,May, 1964). Game between
Peru and
Argentina, bad call angered the crowds
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Hillsboroughstadium crush
(Sheeld, England,1989). FA Cup semi-final match between
Liverpool andNottingham; over-crowding of people
entering the stadium
Hailstorm/stadiumcrush (Kathmandu,Nepal, 1988). Fans
attempted to flee thestadium when a storm brokeout, some doors
were locked
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Deadlydisasters
Church of the Company Fire (Santiago, Chile, Dec., 1863). The
temple was adornedwith a profusion of gas lights and wall coverings
for the Feast of theImmaculate Conception. A gas light ignited one
of the wall decorations
Theatre fire (Kamli, China, 1893)
2,000
1,995
Theatre fire (Canton, China, May, 1845)
1,670
Theatre fire(Shanghai, China, June, 1871)
900
Lehman Theater fire(St. Petersburg, Russia, 1836)
800
Aviation
Structural fires
The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse last
monthhas risen to more than 650 people.
Heres a comparison of death tolls from other deadly
disasters.
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Halifax Explosion (N.S., 1917)French cargo ship fully laden with
wartime explosives collided with a Norwegian vessel
Palace of the Grand Masters explosion, Rhodes,
Greece (April, 1856) Lightning strike started a fire that
detonated tons of explosives
Ammunition plant explosion at Smederevo, Serbia, June 8,
1941
1,950
Salang tunnel (Afghanistan, 1982)An army convoy was travelling
through the 2.7-km long tunnel. Its thought an army vehicle
collided witha fuel truck and exploded. Fire rapidly spread
throughout the tunnel
3,000
4,000
1,500
Explosions
