emergency

I've had a few rough landings when travelling - nothing quite as spectacular as this plane as it skids down the runway without its wheels. :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_WJFVn4fJE&feature=related

A massive inferno burning across the mountains of northwest Nevada has evacuated thousands from the area to residents horror as firefighters fight for the many homes and potential lives swept up in the blaze. Police in Reno went house to house in the middle of the night, pounding on doors...

Around 1,200 people have been forced out of their homes by a forest fire raging in Ibiza. Some 150 firefighters were battling to control the blaze yesterday, which threatened to engulf the exclusive Roca Llisa development on the south of the island. Police ordered residents to leave the...

Grenade attack at Casino Royale in Monterrey after ex-plo-sio-tions, a fierce gave in-cen- MONTERREY, NL, August 25 (OEM-agency) .- An attack on the Casino Royale in the city left a toll, so far, 51 people dead and at least a dozen more wounded, and dozens more were trapped in place, the...

The entire eastern coast of the United States should prepare for Irene, a large and dangerous hurricane churning northwestward over the tropical waters of the Caribbean, the nation's emergency chief warned Tuesday. After lashing the Turks and Caicos islands and the Bahamas, Irene is...

An injured biker lying in the road after falling off his motorcycle was run over by an ambulance responding to a separate 999 call. Michael Colley, 33, was knocked out after coming off his Suzuki GSXR near Calne, Wiltshire, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Two passers-by stopped...

A teenager has been knifed to death during a fight between two gangs of youths after a party descended into violence. Police launched a murder investigation after 17-year-old Kelvin Chibueze was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Monday morning in Ilford, east London, following the fight...

A father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it. A passing motorist saw the decapitated head of seven-year-old Jori Lirette, from Louisiana, and alerted police. Detectives later...

A quadriplegic skydiver plunged 18,000 feet to his death because he was unable to manually deploy his parachute, and his emergency chute was not set to automatically release, authorities said on Monday. Zack Fogle, 27, of Kingston, Washington, died Saturday afternoon just minutes after he...

S.African 'corpse' wakes up, scares off morgue staff: report A 50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported. "His family thought he had died," health...

Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in London. The Back To Black singer was found at the property by emergency services at 3.54pm this afternoon, according to sources, and her death is being treated as 'unexplained' by police. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: 'Police...

Several people have been killed in a massive explosion in Oslo which has shattered the windows of the Norwegian Prime Minister's offices and forced the evacuation of nearby buildings. Police in Norway say the blast - which happened just after 3.30pm on Friday, July 22 - was caused by a bomb...

The man survivied thanks to emergency surgery.

At least 14 people have been killed in raging flood waters that have swept through south-western Guizhou province. Scores of people are missing, and tens of thousands have left their homes ahead of more flooding. Roads, bridges and hundreds of homes and cars have been...

Hundreds of tourists were forced to be evacuated from homes and hotels as forest fires ravaged Ibiza yesterday. The fire, which started on Wednesday, has burned more than 5,000 acres of pine forest in the north of the Mediterranean resort island. Officials say it is the worst forest fire...

Rescuers warned that the death toll could climb higher as heavy winds, strong rain and hail quarter-sized hail stones hampered the search effort on Monday. Joplin fire chief Mitch Randles estimated the damage covered a quarter or more of the city of about 50,000 people some 160 miles south...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has killed dozens of people and toppled several buildings in southern Spain, near the town of Lorca, killing at least four people, officials say. The quake struck at a depth of just 1km (0.6 miles), some 120km south-west of Alicante, at 1850 (1650 GMT)...

At least 150 devastating tornadoes have obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, killing at least 200 people in five states, wiping out homes and businesses and causing a nuclear power plant to use back-up generators. The death toll, already staggering, continues to rise...

A deadly mudslide in Columbia covered a bus as it was traveling out of the central city area of Manizales. The bus was covered with mud when a hill side slid down upon it and pushed it off the road. The slide was caused by the massive amounts of rainfall that have been falling on the area...