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Air France 447 Crash a Result of Crew Ignoring Alarms

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 >>

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This Is What Happens When a Car Jump Stunt Goes Wrong

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 >>

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Would You Fit a Crash-Recording Camera In Your Car to Cut Your Insurance?

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 >>

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Was This Google Maps Car Driver Using Google Glasses When He Crashed?

Oh look, a crashed Google Maps car. Was the driver using Google Glasses like Sergei Brin? [Thanks Jelly!] Read More >>

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This Insane Russian Survives Getting Hit By a Car and Flipped Into the Air, Having Parked In the Middle of a Motorway

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 >>

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There’s No Way You’d Survive a Terrifying Plane Crash Like This

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 >>

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If a Truck Loaded With Sulfuric Acid Crashes, Does It Melt the Road?

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 >>

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Aftermath Photos of the F-18 Crash Show How Lucky Everyone Was

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 >>

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Watch a TV Reporter Walk Face-First Into a Sign-Post Live On Air

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 >>

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The Post Office Goes Tits-Up Nationwide After Computer Crash

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 >>

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This Is What You See When You Crash Into a Mountain at 120 MPH

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 >>

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Crashing Into a Mountain During a Wingsuit Dive Sure Looks Painful

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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Apparently, British Airways Loves To Torture Its Passengers

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 >>

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Failed Russian Probe Phobos-Grunt Crash Lands in the Pacific

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 >>

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Falling Russian Spacecraft Photographed; Impact As Early As Tomorrow

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 >>