NASA Van Crash in Calif. Kills Three
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Los Angeles County Coroner team members carry the body of a crash victim from the helicopter that lifted it out of a ravine after a van carrying 10 people plunged off Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA has experienced tragedies before, most recently with the loss of seven astronauts aboard shuttle Columbia in 2003.
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A private jet on its way to pick up the former US President, George Bush, has crashed in bad weather near Houston in Texas, killing the three crew members on board.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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Three people are believed to have been killed in a serious multiple car accident in Aberdeenshire.
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Thirty-three people were killed and 14 injured Sunday in Egypt when a truck crashed into a bus carrying pilgrims home from the holy Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, the police said.
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HOUSTON - A private jet heading to Houston to pick up former US president George HW Bush crashed in thick fog Monday, killing all three people aboard.
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By PAUL FOY     DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah  -- Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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LOS ANGELES - A commuter van tumbled 200 feet off a mountain road Thursday, killing at least four people and trapping others, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
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A small plane trying to land Saturday at a private mountain airstrip hit two planes on the ground, killing three people, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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WASHINGTON Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced
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A helicopter used as an air ambulance crashed into a bay early Wednesday, killing all three crew members aboard, officials said. Two bodies were recovered and divers were looking for the third victim.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - Three people died and 14 were hurt on Monday when a sport utility vehicle crammed with 21 people, most of them suspected illegal immigrants, crashed in Texas after a high-speed chase, police said.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."    Cooper, who on the final flight of the Mercury program became the first American to spend more than 24 hours in space, died of natural causes Oct. 4 at his home in Ventura, Calif...
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A commuter van carrying workers from two aerospace companies collided head-on with a tractor-trailer Friday on a Mississippi River bridge, killing four people in the van and injuring four others, authorities said.
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By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 10--A former Coeur d'Alene resident was killed and his wife, a Spokane native, was seriously injured earlier this month in a head-on crash in California that also took the life of another.   Derrek T.
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A veteran pilot trying to break a speed record was killed Monday when his small, experimental plane crashed into an apartment building and playground, and three people on the ground were injured, authorities said.