In June 2009 an Airbus A330-200, Air France flight 447, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean tragically killing 228 people. Now, the final BEA report into the event reveals that the tragedy occurred because the crew ignored the warning alarms in the cabin. Read More >>
Featured comment by PrinterElf:
"Hmmmm, for some reason I can't reply to your final post above, so here will have to suffice!
I think the reports were of a cruise alt of FL350, cli..." More »
We saw that insane real-life Hot Wheels stunt from the X-Games yesterday, which included a 21m gap to jump after a gravity-defying loop. This is what happens when you don't quite make it across the jump, and it's pretty painful to watch. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"God damn god damn god damn....
I *hate* people who use their tablets as cameras at live events, they look like absolute numpties, especially at gig..." More »
Car insurance is expensive no matter what age you are, but for those under 25 it's just horrendous. Now insurers in Britain are starting to offer up to a 15 per cent discount for young drivers, if you mount a crash-cam in your car. Read More >>
Featured comment by Michael Pegg:
"Drivings fun!! I pray for the day I have my own robot chauffeur and I'm driven not driving LOL.
I'd gladly put this in my car if it gave a discount..." More »
If real, this is one of the most incredibly shocking things I've seen all day. A crazy Russian dude apparently parked up in the middle of a motorway, got out and was hit by a car in another lane, flipping him completely end-over-end in the air before he lands hard on the tarmac. Read More >>
Yesterday we heard that Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel deliberately crashed a 727-jet plane into the desert. Now there’s a terrifying eyewitness video to show you just how horrific that really was. There’s no way you’d come out of that alive, surely? Read More >>
Featured comment by The Doctor:
"Actually, plans designed 40 years ago are considerably more sturdy than planes today. Back then materials science was much less understood and so safe..." More »
This truck carrying 1,000 gallons of sulfuric acid crashed in Bartow, Florida, spilling its cargo over State Road 60. The driver was burned, people and animals have been evacuated, and a hazardous materials team in on the scene. But my question is: if sulfuric acid drops on a road, would the road melt? Read More >>
Featured comment by John Baker:
""But thankfully, apart from the driver’s injuries, nothing really bad has happened." His and the life of his family changed forever, I think enough ..." More »
The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It's amazing how lucky the residents and the pilots were. Read More >>
There's nothing quite as funny as watching people hurt themselves. Not seriously of course; that'd just be creepy. But there's something hilarious about people walking or crashing into things, especially when it's live on air. Ouch. Read More >>
It looks like the Post Office is having yet more issues, and again they’re pretty serious. The whole of the UK’s 11,800 Post Offices have been taken offline due to a central computer system crash, which kicked off at midday making the place even more miserable than usual. Read More >>
Earlier this week we showed you Jeb Corliss' brush with death, as he hit the side of Table Mountain while attempting a wingsuit jump. Now, the footage from the cameras mounted to his helmet is available—and it looks terrifying. Read More >>
Jeb Corliss is a seasoned wingsuit flyer: he's jumped off the Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle, and even the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia with just flaps of material to keep him aloft. But when he jumped off Table Mountain, he hit one of its outcrops at full speed. Somehow, he survived. Read More >>
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Passengers flying in a British Airways' airplane from Miami to London thought they were going to die last Friday, when a recorded voice announced: "This is an emergency, we will shortly be making an emergency landing on water." Read More >>
One of the coolest space missions of recent time, to be carried out by Russia's Phobos-Grunt, failed last November. Now the unsuccessful probe has crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean. Read More >>
The Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques has taken this hot picture of the Russian Mars 13-ton probe Phobos-Grunt as it falls to planet Earth. It may hit tomorrow, but we still don't know where. Read More >>
Featured comment by Andy10:
"As an article on this website last week stated, the Type 45 Destroyers can track and destroy a cricket ball travelling at Mach 3, so it would definite..." More »