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The resulting fireball and flaming wreckage killed 24 United States Army paratroopers who were waiting nearby to load the transports and injured almost 100 more paratroopers in what is known as the Green Ramp disaster.
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During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to neutrons from the explosion, absorbs them, and becomes radioactive.
The piercing aircraft crashed onto the runway and consequently both the fuselage and resulting fireball of aviation fuel tumbled into the spectator area, hitting the crowd and coming to rest against a refrigerated trailer being used to dispense ice cream to the various vendor booths in the area.
The resulting explosion produced a shock wave that was heard and felt for over 5 miles, and a fireball over 1, 000 feet in diameter.
On January 22, 2007, workers in front of Medina General Hospital ( now Medina Hospital ) struck a gas main and created a large fireball resulting in a community blackout and temporary closure of three area schools.
They also were prone to fire when the turret was penetrated and the hydraulic lines ruptured spewing " cherry juice " ( the nickname for the red colored hydraulic fluid ) at high pressure into the crew compartment resulting in a fireball.
If the substance involved is flammable, it is likely that the resulting cloud of the substance will ignite after the BLEVE has occurred, forming a fireball and possibly a fuel-air explosion, also termed a vapor cloud explosion ( VCE ).
A massive gasoline spill was subsequently ignited, likely by the unaware welders of subcontractor Matamoros Welding working inside the steel water pipe, resulting in an explosive fireball that caused the deaths, by burns, of four workers and one supervisor and the severe injury of four others.
A lot of potential energy is released by multiple tonnes of falling metal ; any liquid metal in the furnace is often displaced upwards and outwards by the solid scrap, and the grease and dust on the scrap is ignited if the furnace is hot, resulting in a fireball erupting.
The impact test flight occurred on December 1, 1984, proceeding generally according to plan, and resulting in a spectacular fireball which required more than an hour to extinguish.
The family, having seen the resulting fireball just as they lock themselves in their shelter, believe that the unthinkable has happened and that they are the sole survivors of a nuclear war.
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Frick had locked out the workers, and later hired three hundred armed guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to break the union's picket lines, resulting in gunfire and flaming barges on the Ohio River.
It is possible that the Hungarians might have had the capability to defend the camp, but their sallies were ineffective, and they were terrified by the flaming arrows, resulting in the deaths of many soldiers by the trampling crush of their comrades.
The resulting explosion of her boilers and ammunition magazines destroyed Thunder Child, but her flaming wreckage plowed into the second Martian machine and destroyed it.
Moving further into a gargantuan pile of charred tree trunks, the raft passes through a flaming bridge of felled wood and then plummets down a 30-foot slide, soaking everyone in the resulting waves.
At the beach, they are attacked by a barrage of flaming arrows, resulting in several casualties.
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Although his body is not found by either of the teams after the resulting destruction of the bunker ; the horrifically scarred William emerges from the wreckage, his father having psychically grafted his own consciousness onto William's mind.
After a failed attempt to repair the broken engine, resulting in an explosion that burns and sinks the ship, Luke, Charla, Ian, and Will find themselves deserted on an island after a week of drifting on a piece of wreckage from the ship, with one of the children being forced to dangle over the side as " shark bait.
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According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.
Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations.
The military was used three times in 2006-2007 to suppress popular protest: in June 2006, resulting in 16 deaths, on 22 January 2007, when it fired on protesters at the 9 November Bridge in Conakry, killing over 100, and on 9 February 2007, when it killed several more protesters.
Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other's heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process.
The panic reaction was explained by many as resulting from the tension after the attack on the Dutch royal family that killed eight people just over a year before the incident.
At first it seemed that this would be a repeat of the battle on Rhodes, with most of Malta's cities destroyed and half the Knights killed in battle ; but a relief force from Spain entered the battle, resulting in the loss of 30, 000 Ottoman troops and the victory of the local Maltese citizenry.
In the resulting skirmish, scores of Jordanian security forces were killed and 125 homes razed.
In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.
* The Black Saturday bushfires – the deadliest bushfires in Australian history took place across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday February 7, 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in 173 people killed and, more than 500 injured and around 7, 500 homeless.
* May to August, 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupted cataclysmically ; 36, 000 people were killed, the majority being killed by the resulting tsunami.
Due to his abrupt death in ambush, Sviatoslav's conquests, for the most part, were not consolidated into a functioning empire, while his failure to establish a stable succession led to fratricidal feud among his sons, resulting in two of his three sons being killed.
CSN reported that it was the interest of China's propaganda minister to reduce the casualty count by an order of magnitude, resulting in later reports that " hundreds " were killed at Tiananmen Square.
During an American bombing raid on August 24, 1944 that was directed at a nearby armament factory, several bombs, including incendiaries, also fell on the camp, resulting in heavy casualties amongst the prisoners ( 2, 000 prisoners wounded & 388 killed by the raid ).
According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.
When the populace came to the defense of the monks, the resulting clashes saw 30 civilians killed and 200 wounded.
The resulting flood killed 100, 000 people.
In 1973, Mossad killed an innocent Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, in what became known as the Lillehammer affair in Norway, mistaking Bouchiki for Salameh, and resulting in the arrest of some of the Israeli agents.
The resulting Battle of Clontarf was a bloody affair, with Brian, his son Murchad, and Máel Mórda among those killed.
However, as the first outbreak of smallpox spread from Kyūshū in 735, all four brothers were killed two years later, resulting in temporary shrinking of Fujiwara's dominance.
The Barbarossa campaign of 1941 came as a complete surprise to the Soviets, resulting in the catastrophic loss of over 4 million Soviet soldiers killed or captured.
The resulting explosion and release of scalding steam killed most of her crew, approximately 129 men.
While practicing, a lap belt failed in one of the Snowbirds ' aircraft, resulting in a mishap that killed the pilot of Snowbird 2.
It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 persons and destroyed several square miles of the Township.
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together with a mortar and pestle, perhaps for 24 hours, resulting in a fine flour.
* 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
The city's highest rainfall in 24 hours occurred on 7 August 1953, when about of rain lashed the city, resulting in major flooding.
To meet the low bit requirement, MPEG-1 downsamples the images, as well as uses picture rates of only 24 – 30 Hz, resulting in a moderate quality.
** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.
* July 24 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
* July 24 – American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U. S. history until Pearl Harbor.
It cost £ 600 million, and the resulting venue opened to the public on 24 June 2007, with a concert by rock band Bon Jovi.
The 8-bit choice is cleaner, resulting in a 200-bit frame, twenty-five 8-bit channels, of which 24 are traffic and one 8-bit channel available for operations, administration, and maintenance ( OA & M ).
In the resulting Battle of Spion Kop, British troops captured the summit by surprise during the early hours of 24 January 1900, but as the early morning fog lifted they realised too late that they were overlooked by Boer gun emplacements on the surrounding hills.
Satcom 1 was widely used because it had twice the communications capacity of the competing Westar 1 in America ( 24 transponders as opposed to the 12 of Westar 1 ), resulting in lower transponder-usage costs.
The resulting German-occupied territory held 64 % of France's pig-iron production, 24 % of its steel manufacturing and 40 % of the total coal mining capacity, dealing a serious, but not crippling setback to French industry.
On 24 August 79, two months after his accession, Mount Vesuvius erupted, resulting in the almost complete destruction of life and property in the cities and resort communities around the Bay of Naples.
* September 24, 1959: New York City, New York Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager Monday at Morris High School.
The matter was officially settled on December 24 when the Japanese government apologized and paid over US $ 2, 000, 000 although it claimed the attack was an accident resulting from mis-identification.
The resulting structure became known simply as the Bastille, with the eight, irregularly built towers and linking curtain walls forming a structure 223 feet ( 68 m ) wide and 121 feet ( 37 m ) deep, the walls and towers 78 feet ( 24 m ) high and 10 foot ( 3 m ) thick at their bases.
In 1961, the matches were changed to 18 holes each, but the number of matches was doubled, resulting in a total of 24 points.
Beginning in the 1960s with the IBM System / 360 ( which was an exception, in that it used the low order 24 bits of a word for addresses, resulting in a 16 MB
* On 24 July 1951, the right engine of a cargo-configured DC-3 ( registered OO-CBA ) caught fire upon takeoff from Gao Airfield and crashed, resulting in the loss of lives of the three persons on board.
Some kinescopes filmed the television pictures at the same frame rate of 30 full frames per second, resulting in more faithful picture quality than those that recorded at 24 frames per second.
After Romsey's Conservative MP Michael Colvin died in a fire at his home in Tangley on 24 February 2000, Gidley was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the resulting by-election.
($ 564 billion in net contributions, $ 24 billion from taxation of benefits, $ 114 billion in interest, and $ 103 billion in reimbursements from the General Fund of the Treasury — almost exclusively resulting from the 2011 payroll tax legislation.
The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.
* Molluscs-Seasonal rainfall patterns of the Western Ghats necessitate a period of dormancy for its land snails, resulting in their high abundance and diversity including at least 258 species of gastropods from 57 genera and 24 families.
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