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These Days in Wrecks:

January 8th

1979: The oil tanker Betelgeuse suffers a structural failure and explodes at the Whiddy Island oil Terminal off West Cork, Ireland, killing 50.  A diver also dies during the salvage.

1989: British Midlands Flight 92 crashes near Kegworth in England while attempting an emergency landing; instead, the plane hits an embankement of the M1 motorway, and 47 of the 126 people on board the 737 are killed.

2005:  The USS San Francisco, a Los Angeles-class submarine, collides with an undersea mountain and is badly damaged.  One crew member dies, but the vessel is able to surface.

January 9th

1972:  The Seawise University, formerly the RMS Queen Elizabeth, catches fire and capsizes in Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong.  Insurance fraud is suspected.

1975:  A private Cessna 150 collides with Golden West Airlines Flight 261, a De Havilland Twin Otter DHC-6, over Whittier, CA.  None of the 14 people on either plane survive.

2005:  The Elizabeth M towboat is pused over the Montgomery Locks and Dam during high water while pushing 6 barges through the lock on the Ohio River near Industry, PA.  4 crewmembers are lost and 3 escape.

January 10th

1938:  Northwest Airlines Flight 2, a Lockheed 14H Super Electra, crashes in the mountains near Bozeman, MT.  All 10 on board die in the first fatal crash for both the Super Electra and Northwest.

1954:  One of two Comets to suffer metal fatigue and explosive decompression this year, BOAC Flight 781 breaks up over the Mediterranean near Elba, killing 35.

2000:  Crossair Flight LX498 crashes minutes after taking off from Zurich in Niederhasli, Switzerland.  All 10 people on the Saab 340 are killed.