“Mass Casualty Event”

Pilot safety concerns about New York’s LaGuardia airport were filed to aviation officials months before Sunday’s collision between an airplane and a firetruck left two pilots dead and 41 other people hospitalized.

According to the aviation safety reporting system administered by the US space agency Nasa, a pilot using the airport in the summer wrote, “Please do something,” after air traffic controllers failed to provide appropriate guidance about multiple nearby aircraft.

A miracle’: Canadian flight attendant ejected from plane survives New York crash

An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday — killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.

Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet landing from Montreal struck a rescue truck responding to a separate incident just before 11:40 p.m.

Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air, with debris and cables hanging from the mangled cockpit.

OMDG. 😳@fancypants_s https://t.co/JwsbrS3p9E

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 23, 2026

WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/YryjIri541

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 23, 2026

h/t All who sent this in. This happened at 11:40 last night, I hit the hay at 11:30 because today is “New Fancoil Day” an all day affair I am told.

At least 39 people have died and dozens more have been injured after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, the country’s Civil Guard has said.

The accident near the city of Córdoba, in southern Spain, has been described by local officials as Spain’s worst rail crash in more than a decade.

Tragedy in southern Spain🇪🇸: a high-speed train derailed, crossed tracks, and hit another train head-on.

More than 21 reportedly killed, and at least 100 injured, with 25 suffering critical injuries#Spain | #trainaccident pic.twitter.com/UHas6y2Luk

— Sumit (@SumitHansd) January 19, 2026

Like many young people across Switzerland, Kenzo Ronnow, a university student in Lausanne, slept in on 1 January after celebrating the new year.

But as he scrolled through his phone soon after waking, he saw the lead story of a foreign news website was about Switzerland.

A fire had ripped through Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, an Alpine ski resort in Switzerland’s Valais canton and a customary haunt for New Year’s Eve revellers.

One of the two bar owners was on Friday taken into custody.

The owner of the Swiss ski bar at the centre of a New Year’s Day inferno that claimed 40 lives and left 119 injured spent time in prison for ‘fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment’ and was a known pimp, it emerged today.

French national Jacques Moretti, who is in his 60s, faces charges for the inferno at Le Constellation, in Crans–Montana, Switzerland, on New Year’s Day.

His venue became a death trap, after sparklers placed inside champagne bottles ignited the basement ceiling.

A hero banker saved ten youngsters from the Swiss ski resort inferno by forcing open an emergency door after his teenage daughter rang him pleading for help.

Paolo Campolo, 55, raced from his home in Crans-Montana to Le Constellation bar, where he prised open a side door to allow panicked revellers to run for their lives as the building filled with roaring flames and smoke in seconds.

At least 40 clubbers were killed and another 119 injured, 80 of them critically, when a devastating blaze ripped through the basement of the packed club as it hosted New Year’s Eve celebrations.

The distraught owners of the Swiss nightclub where at least 40 revelers were killed in a raging New Year’s Eve fire insisted their venue followed every safety regulation before the unthinkable tragedy.

Jacques and Jessica Moretti spoke out for the first time since the deadly blaze tore through Le Constellation nightclub after sparklers attached to champagne bottles ignited the ceiling during the boozy bash.

This is just so sad.
These Swiss teenagers in a nightclub on New year’s Eve had no idea how serious the fire would be in just a few minutes. Music still playing and people looking on and dancing. Within an hour 40 would be dead and over 120 injured. RIP pic.twitter.com/nknUPv8v4P

— Niall Boylan (@Niall_Boylan) January 3, 2026

“I thought my little brother was inside so I came and tried to break the window to help people to exit, and after that I went in.”

The 18-year-old man, who did not want to give his name, was speaking to the BBC after a huge fire at a New Year’s Eve party in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana rapidly turned what was an evening of celebration into a nightmare.

Police say around 40 people died when the blaze broke out in a bar called Le Constellation at around 01:30 local time (00:30 GMT) on Thursday. A further 115 more were injured, mainly with severe burns.

#SWITZERLAND #SUISSE #SUIZAhttps://t.co/SlXyshTVog

Footage showing the beginning of the fatal fire at the Le Constellation Bar in Crans-Montana

🔴 SWITZERLAND :📹 MOMENT THE TRAGIC FIRE STARTED AT THE CLUB IN CRANS-MONTANA#Fire #Incendio #Incendie pic.twitter.com/WPROMhCKDu

— LW World News (@LW_WorldNews) January 1, 2026

A man who used his car as a “weapon” to plough into more than 130 people at Liverpool FC’s victory parade has been jailed for 21 years and six months.

Paul Doyle, 54, drove at crowds “in a rage” after his “anger had completely taken hold of him” shortly before 18:00 BST on 26 May, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Judge Andrew Menary KC said the ex-Royal Marine, who stared straight ahead with no expression as he was sentenced, had generated “fear and panic” and his “disregard for human life defied ordinary understanding”.

Early indications allege the driver was drunk and high

A car reportedly rammed into crowd at Christmas event in French territory of Guadeloupe, killing at least 10 peoplepic.twitter.com/vQtP09Jpxm

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 6, 2025

h/t Patti Jo

A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at least 36 people and injuring 29 as authorities struggled to bring the blaze under control. At latest count, 279 people are missing.

Firefighters battled the orange flames into the night as thick black smoke billowed from the 32-story towers, which were sheathed in bamboo scaffolding – whose use the government began phasing out in March for safety reasons – and green construction mesh.

Horrifying visuals from hong kong several buildings burned more than dozen people burnt alive . Rescue teams are trying very hard . Wishing for safety of everyone.#hongkong #hongkongfire #FireStorm #HongKongers pic.twitter.com/njZxB4zswF

— ɳ เ ร ɦ α (@itsnisha03) November 26, 2025

We are being encouraged to see even preventable atrocities as part and parcel of everyday life.

‘Be vigilant.’ Among the oddly muted government responses to the mass stabbing on a train heading from Doncaster to London on Saturday night, the words of UK defence secretary John Healey stuck most in the craw. You’d think he was talking about a rise in pickpocketing, not another act of barbarism on British soil.

UPDATE: Huntingdon attacker identified as Anthony Williams pictured in an earlier incident at a barber shop

One suspect in train stabbings as rail worker critical

A 32-year-old man is now the only suspect after multiple people were stabbed on a train, police have confirmed.

A railway staff member remains in a life-threatening condition following the attack on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross, which stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, shortly before 20:00 GMT on Saturday.

A 35-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released with no further action after it was reported “in good faith” that he had been involved in the attack. Officers later confirmed this was not the case.

‘You can’t get on a train. You can’t get on the Tube. You can’t walk down London’s main streets without feeling under threat.’

Journalist Sue Reid says she no longer feels safe anywhere following the Huntingdon train stabbings. pic.twitter.com/17nXpb1JRw

— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 2, 2025