Nocere – Earth Disasters

There were 21 people on board the Flair airliner as it wrecked in Bandundu which is about 125 miles on the west side of the capital.

It has been reported that the airliner hit a house. No on ground casualties are known of at this time.

The accident happened about 2km from the airport. The plane was to make one stop in Bandundu before it continued on to the capital.

Most of the passengers and the pilots died in the crash. The pilots are thought to have been Belgian nationals. 19 people who had perished in the accident were pulled from the plane. There were two people who initially made it through the crash alive, but one has since died.

The accident is being checked out as to the cause according to transport Minister Laure-Marie Kawanda.

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In the north eastern parts of China, in the province of  Heilongjiang, a passenger plane crashed. There were at least 42 people on board the plane the died.

There were 96 people on board the plane at the time of the crash. As it over shot the runway trying to land at Yichun City’s airport, it exploded into flames. The accident happened at 1336 GMT. 5 of the people on board were crew members.

Of the people that survived the wreckage, 3 of the 49 are listed in serious condition.

The plane departed the provincial capital of Harbin at 2051. It was an Embraer ERJ-190.

Among the people on board the flight was 5 children.

Most of the people who survived did not have serious injuries.

It is possible that the airport had been covered in fog at the time of the accident.

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A message attached to a drill came from the trapped miners. It brings relief to love ones who have been waiting for 17 days to learn the fate of the miners.

The note read that they were in a shelter in the mine. That they had water and ventilation.

Even now as rescuers know the miners are alive, there is talk of it taking possibly months to get them out.

This is the first contact from the miners since the cave in 17 days ago.

“The 33 of us in the shelter are well,” read the message written with red paint on the piece of paper that Pinera held up on television. Pinera has vowed a major overhaul of the mining regulator in the world’s No.1 copper producer.

A television camera was descended into the mine by some of the rescue members. It showed a few of the miners that are trapped. Some looked right into the camera. Many were not bearing shirts due to the heat inside the mine.

According to officials, they look much better then they expected them to.

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Shahdadkot, Pakistan is begining to look like a lake in areas. On Saturday, rising water jeopardised the mud shoulders which if broken down could put the enitre city under water, Shahdadkot is located in the Sindh province in Pakistan.

Pakistan is suffering from the biggest natural disaster it has ever seen. People are desperately trying to get out of the area to escape the second round of monsoon waters as it soars towards the southern areas.

In some areas already you can only see the roofs of houses that are beneath the flood waters. Everyone living in the area has been advised to leave.

People are piling all their belongings that they can fit onto old trucks and buses. They then ride onto of their belongings trying to get out of the area before the floods hit. Lots of them have no definite plan of where they are going. They only want to reach higher ground out of the range of the water.

There aren’t enough vehicles to help everyone get out. Some could be left behind trying to get as far above the water as they can.

In Pakistan, there are many towns that are also under water as is Shahdadkot. The water is predicted to start going down in the next few days. The last of it will recede into the Indus River and then on into the Arabian Sea.

After the waters recede, the dangers do not end. Then they will have the problem of no clean fresh water. People will be walking through polluted water in the streets. Over 200 places where they could get health care have been storm-beaten or ruined. This leaves people with no proper care  and the spreading of disease is inevitable.

There are at approximately 4 million people that are without homes.

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A Boeing 737-700 carrying 131 passengers including crew, crashed upon landing early Monday. The accident happened on the island of San Andres at about 1:49am.

Lightning may have been a factor in the crash. The weather was bad and there were many reports of lightning around the landing area. The pilot is noted as reporting that lightning struck the jet.

There were 124 people who received injuries in the accident. Most were found outside of the plane laying on the airstrip.

One lady, Amar Fernandez, died of a heart attack on the way to be treated for her injuries. She was in her 70′s.

A young 11 year old girl sustained serious head injuries and facial trauma.

The people with the most serious injuries were being taken by an air ambulance to Bogota to be treated.

Others were treated at two area hospitals.

There were only 6 people in the accident that did not require any treatment for injuries. This includes an 18 month old baby boy.

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In China, a train carrying stones to be used in the construction of building a railroad to join Baotou to Mandalt, derailed and caused the deaths of 11 people. One other person was hurt in the derailment.

It happened Friday morning. Mandalt is a town located on the border near Mongolia.

The accident is still being checked out to find what caused the train to derail.

In China, accidents in the places people work are common. Thousands of people in China die each year due to lack of following safety rules and not very good training for workers.

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24 People perished in a bus accident on Tuesday when the bus they were riding in dove into a ravine. All 24 people  who died in the accident have been identified by the officials in the north western part of Peru.

Two people survived the impact of the accident, but passed away while being transported to the hospital in Trujillo. Of the dead, 4 are children according to Kyra Orcheff, a provincial official.

Another 27 passengers survived the crash and were being transported to area hospitals.

The driver of the bus, Andres Zavalete survived the accident and was sent for treatment to the Clinica Peruano-Americana in Trujillo.

The driver lost control of the bus and it nose dived over 250 feet down.

Even though the limit for the amount of passengers to be on the bus was only 33, they were traveling with over 50 on board.

The area where the wreck occurred is the same area as an accident on May 30th where 23 people died. It happened in Gran Chimu Province a distant area.

Both of the buses involved are owned by the Kurrungo company.

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The miners have been in the mine since Thursday night. It is unknown if they are alive and doing ok, or if they have suffered injuries, or have died.

On Sunday, rescue members tried to use a machine to get to the 33 miners still trapped within the mine.

Saturday, rescue attempts were knock back when yet another cave in blocked the way. It stopped them from possibly making their way into were the miners are trapped.

According to the local media, there is a shelter inside the mine that the workers could have taken refuge in.

The president of Chili, Sebastian Pinera, went to Copiapo where the mine is located on Saturday. He met with officials there.

“We are going to do everything humanly possible to rescue alive the 33 people who are trapped. In this there will be no hesitation and a total commitment,” he said, according to a statement posted on his office’s website.

San Esteban, the mine, is located in the Atacama area that is in the north part of Chili.

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