Wind, rough seas suspected in crash
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The Coast Guard helicopter crews who work out of Air Station Kodiak often fly through wind and whiteouts to rescue fishermen, freighter crews and recreational boaters from Alaska&#39;s roiling waters.
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French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats went to the assistance of a cruise ship limping in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard Monday after a storm knocked out its engines, maritime officials said.
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Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an aircraft training ground crash which killed two RAF crew members.
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Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, killing at least 91 people, including 55 foreign tourists.
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Injured captain is winched to safety at the second attempt as stricken ship rolls in gale-force winds
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A Spanish fishing boat that went missing in a brutal storm off northwest Scotland has been located, and its crew of 19 appears to be safe, the Royal Air Force and coastguard officials said.
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Rail, air and ferry services have been forced to a halt as the south coasts of Britain and Ireland were battered by huge seas and gale-force winds.
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Taiwan issued sea and land warnings yesterday as typhoon Aere roared toward the provincial capital Taipei, whipping up rough seas that flipped over a fishing boat from Hong Kong off the northern coast, the coast guard said.
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Two motorists are killed as gales of up to 124mph cause chaos across Scotland.
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Winds of up to 70mph bring travel chaos to the north-east of England and Cumbria.
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Systems to check for wind were not working properly at the time of Sunday's crash in Thailand, officials say.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
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Frustrated by furious winds, mountainous seas and a mere five-hour window of December daylight, rescuers searched Thursday for six people lost in the Bering Sea after the Coast Guard helicopter that had plucked them from a crippled freighter crashed in the darkness.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island yesterday and discovered that swaths of land were inundated and roads, villages, and bridges had vanished. After helicopter flyovers, rescuers estimated more than 80,000 deaths in the region and described the scene as catastrophic.
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A helicopter carrying 17 people crashed into the North Sea near the Dutch port of Den Helder Tuesday night and all 17 people aboard were rescued, the Coast Guard said.
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Nearly 100 people were injured in two  separate ship collisions in Hong Kong waters on Thursday during  foggy weather.