Accidents
- On 8 February 1989, a Boeing 707 operated by Independent Air in route to Punta Cana airport, Dominican Republic crashed into the mountains of Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, during an approach to the island airport for a stopover, and killed all the 144 passengers and crew on board.
- On 1 July 2002, a Boeing 757-23AF operated by DHL had taken off from Milan-Bergamo and was involved in the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision with a BAL Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M whilst over Lake Constance, near Überlingen, Germany. All 71 people on board the two aircraft were killed
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)