fuckyeahwrecks
transportation gone awry
**planes, trains, automobiles, airships, streetcars etc that have come to an unfortunate end. **
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Photo reblogged from New Hampshire Railroad Gallery
Wreck of the Boston and Maine Red Wing passenger train. Nashua, NH November 13, 1954. One killed, 53 injured.
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Photo reblogged from Alex Williams
Sunken Ship. #olympia #wa #vscocam #vscophile #snapseed #afterlight #shipwreck #pnw
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This Day In Wrecks
1960: A U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers is brought down in Soviet airspace and captured; while the Russians claim to have shot the plane down, it will later be reported the plane crashed after being flipped by a close flyby of a Sukhoi Su-9, or a missile exploding near the plane. The US tries to cover-up their involvement by claiming the plane belonged to NASA and strayed off course while doing research, but they are unsuccessful. Above, Nikita Khrushchev surveys the collected wreckage.
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Photos of the derelict SS United States, docked in Philadelphia while attempts to raise conservation money are underway.
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National Air Cargo Flight 102 - Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan - 4/29/2013 - 7 fatalities (no survivors).
The 747-400 crashed while taking off for a cargo flight to Dubai. The video above shows clearly a high angle of attack, stalling of the wings, and eventual crash of the plane.
To me, it looks like the pilot did the right thing and pitched the nose down to try to gain speed and level the wings, he just ran out of space to work with. The cause of the crash is being investigated, possibly a load shift.
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This Day In Wrecks
1848: The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, on an Arctic expedition commanded by Sir John Franklin, are abandoned by their crews after becoming trapped in the ice for over a year and a half. None of the men survive the attempted walk back to the mainland. Later search parties piece together what happened to the expedition as notes, relics and bodies are recovered over the years. The two ships are never seen again.
pictured: The Erebus and Terror in better times, off the coast of New Zealand in 1841. (John William Carmichael)
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This Day In Wrecks
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, also known as The Red Baron, is shot down behind Australian lines near Amiens, France during a battle. The fighter ace pilot, a member of the Luftstreitkräfte with 80 air combat victories, is fatally wounded by anti-aircraft fire from the ground; he manages to land his Fokker Dr.I but dies almost immediately after. The plane, pictured above with members of the Australian Flying Corps, was picked apart by souvenir hunters in spite of its minimal damage.
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Photoset reblogged from It Could Be Amazing
The Crew of the Sarah Joe
- On February 19, 1979, five men from the Hawaiian island of Maui – Benjamin Kalama, Ralph Malaiakini, Scott Moorman, Patrick Woesner, and Peter Hanchett—went on a fishing trip on a vessel called the “Sarah Joe”. The boat and its crew all vanished after a terrible storm hit the area. It would seem obvious that the five men probably got lost at sea and drowned, but things got really weird in 1988 when pieces of the “Sarah Joe” were found on an island over 2000 miles away.An unmarked shallow grave was also found on the island where the remains of Scott Moorman were buried under a pile of rocks. However, no trace of the other four men was found, so if they were the ones who buried him, what happened to them afterward? And if they didn’t bury him, then who did? To make things even weirder, this island had apparently already been searched a couple years beforehand and no one found the pieces of the Sarah Joe or the grave at that time. The fate of the four other missing men and the mystery of how Scott Moorman was buried remains unsolved. -
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This Day In Wrecks
2002: After a missed approach, Air China Flight 129 descends below the minimum altitude while attempting to land again at Gimhae Airport in Busan, South Korea. The pilots lose sight of the runway in the rain and the plane crashes into a hill. Only 37 of the 166 on board the Boeing 767 survive.
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The Talk Page at Wikipedia for the Lion Air crash has me cracking up.
Side note, opinions from fellow aviation enthusiasts about counting AV Herald as a more reliable source than most mainstream media reports for aviation incidents?
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This Day In Wrecks
1988: While escorting tankers through the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes an Iranian mine, causing a large amount of damage, including flooding in the engine room, a broken keel and a 15-foot hole in the hull. Ten sailors were injured, but no one was killed.
Above, the hole in the hull; the Roberts being lifted by the Mighty Servant 2 on her way to the repair yard.
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Truck fire on the Queensboro Bridge. One of the oxygen tanks in the cargo exploded after the engine fire had already started.
