A train derailed and crashed through a Denver building, Tuesday morning.
According to witnesses, the train came off the tracks, went through a garage, and flew over a ditch.
Luckily it stopped before striking houses that lay not much further away.
No one was hurt in the accident.
The cause of the derailment is under investigation.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
10 Injured in Airplane Crash at LaGuardia
Ten people were injured when a Southwest Airlines 737 crashed after landing, on Monday evening, at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
The 737 landed safely, but as it was going down the runway it's front landing gear collapsed.
It then skidded down the runway for several hundred feet, before veering into grass beside the runway.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.
La Guardia was forced to keep the runway closed until Tuesday morning when cranes were able to move the airplane.
With only one runway operational, the airport saw major delays.
The 737 landed safely, but as it was going down the runway it's front landing gear collapsed.
It then skidded down the runway for several hundred feet, before veering into grass beside the runway.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.
La Guardia was forced to keep the runway closed until Tuesday morning when cranes were able to move the airplane.
With only one runway operational, the airport saw major delays.
4 Killed by Suicide Donkey Bomber
Three NATO soldiers and their translator were killed in Wardak, Afghanistan.
A man riding a donkey rode up to their convoy and blew himself up.
Four Afghan soldiers and a NATO soldier were also injured in the attack.
NATO officials did not initially release the nationalities of the four soldiers, but it later was released that they were Americans.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban is being blamed for it, as they carry out most suicide bombings.
A man riding a donkey rode up to their convoy and blew himself up.
Four Afghan soldiers and a NATO soldier were also injured in the attack.
NATO officials did not initially release the nationalities of the four soldiers, but it later was released that they were Americans.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban is being blamed for it, as they carry out most suicide bombings.
Tokyo Commuters Lift Train Off Woman
During Tokyo's busy morning rush hour a woman fell between the platform and a train.
Forty bystanders rushed to join transit workers and police and pushed the train car off of her, so that she could be lifted to safety.
A single train car weighs more than thirty-three tons.
The woman was not seriously injured in the incident, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Train service resumed just eight minutes later.
Forty bystanders rushed to join transit workers and police and pushed the train car off of her, so that she could be lifted to safety.
A single train car weighs more than thirty-three tons.
The woman was not seriously injured in the incident, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Train service resumed just eight minutes later.
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