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Firefighters discuss how to remove a man from a car after he crashed it into TVW Studios in Olympia, Wash., on Wednesday. The vehicle crashed into the side of the building Wednesday afternoon and was left hanging over an alley. The driver was alert and talking with emergency responders as they worked to figure out a safe way to remove him.
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Police gather at the entrance to the Chaussee d'Antin La Fayette Metro station in Paris after a car accidentally drove into it, April 24, 2012
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Pakistani soldiers and rescue workers search through debris in Hussain Abad after a Bhoja Air Boeing 737 plane crashed on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 21, 2012. Pakistan has launched an investigation after the passenger jet crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm, with all 127 people on board believed dead.
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Soldiers inspect the wreckage of the airliner that crashed minutes before landing.
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A Pakistani airliner crashed just short of landing in Islamabad on Friday, killing all 127 people aboard, the country's Civil Aviation Authority told NBC on Friday.
The flight data recorder has been located, NBC’s Fakhar Rehman reported from Islamabad, and the so-called "black box" was expected to reveal why the plane went down. But the apparent cause was that pilots were flying low under heavy clouds and hit high-tension wires as they approached Benazir Bhutto International Airport, he said.
Eight people died and nine more were hurt after a driver in the Japanese city of Kyoto plowed into pedestrians before smashing into a power pole, Mainichi Japan reported. Officials said the driver was among the dead. The incident occurred at lunchtime in an area crowded with tourists and cherry blossom viewers.
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Police officers inspect a minivan which crashed into a telephone pole after hitting a crowd of pedestrians in Japan's temple-spotted ancient capital of Kyoto, western Japan, on April 12, 2012.
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People's belongings are scattered after the incident.
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Medical personnel tend to the injured.
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People wave as the car of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Law and Justice party and twin brother of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, leaves the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10 during a ceremony for the second anniversary of the Smolensk air crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
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A woman holds a flag with a picture of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, at the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 10 during a ceremony for the second anniversary of the Smolensk plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
Today marks the second anniversary of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others near Smolensk, Russia. It was a tragedy for the country, the worst national disaster since World War II. For a second year, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president and leader of Poland's Law and Justice party, boycotted the state ceremonies to voice his disapproval of the findings in the Russian investigation, which state pilot error as the cause of the crash.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, lays a wreath at a monument in Powazki, Warsaw, Poland for the victims of the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. Today marks the second anniversary of the Polish presidential plane crash that killed Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 others on 10 April 2010.
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A mass is held to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the presidential plane crash, in St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw, Poland, April 10. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 other Poles died April 10, 2010 when the Polish presidential plane crashed while trying to land in Smolensk, Russia.
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The burning fuselage of an F/A-18 Hornet lies smoldering after crashing into a residential building in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, April 6. Media reports indicate the two aviators were able to eject from the jet before it crashed. They were being treated for injuries that were not considered life threatening.
Msnbc.com reports: An F/A-18 jet crashed Friday into a cluster of apartment buildings in Virginia Beach, Va., eyewitnesses and authorities said.
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A Navy official told NBC News that both pilots had been taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. "They were ambulatory," the official told NBC.
Chief Tim Riley of Virginia Beach Fire and Rescue said four to five buildings were on fire and that there was significant damage to about 20 apartments.
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Cmdr. Phil Rosi of the Navy said the two-seat jet fighter crashed about 12:05 p.m. shortly after takeoff. He said both crew members ejected from the aircraft. Read more
Msnbc's Andrea Mitchell reports of an F-18 fighter jet crashing in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Pentagon Department confirms both pilots ejected safely.
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Soldiers unload coffins of children and teachers who were killed in a deadly bus crash in Switzerland, at the military airport of Melsbroek, Belgium, on March 16. A coach accident in Switzerland on Wednesday left 28 dead, including 22 children traveling home after a skiing holiday.
BRUSSELS/SION, Switzerland -- Belgian military aircraft brought home the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland, and the country observed a minute's silence during a national day of mourning on Friday.
White coffins were loaded into two Hercules transport aircraft near the Swiss town of Sion and landed at a military airport near Brussels from where undertakers collected them after a short ceremony. A third plane returned with their belongings.
In factories, offices and schools, Belgians stood silent. Buses, trams and some trains also stopped for passengers to pay their respects to the victims, most of them 11 and 12 year olds returning from a school skiing trip.
"The grief is so intense, but this helps," said one man from the town of Lommel - home to 17 of those killed - referring to acts of remembrance across Belgium.
-- Reuters
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A convoy of hearses leave the military airport of Melsbroek, Belgium, on March 16. A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 12-year-old students returning from a joyous ski vacation as well as the six adults who were accompanying them.
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Children of primary school 'De Speling' in Lommel form a circle around a heart drawn with chalk on March 16 during a minute of silence at the 't Stekske primary school in Lommel for the victims of the March 13 bus crash near the town of Sierre in southern Switzerland. Twenty-eight people died in the accident, including 22 children from two schools of Lommel and Heverlee, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday. Belgians observed a minute of silence and church bells tolled across the grieving nation on March 16 as the bodies of the victims were flown home.
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Relatives of victims leave the Hotel des Vignes, where the families of victims are staying, the day after a tourist bus from Belgium crashed in a tunnel of the motorway A9, in Uvrier, Switzerland, 15 March 2012. Twenty-eight people, including 22 children, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday died in a bus accident in Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais, Swiss police said 14 March 2012.
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A bus with the relatives of victims leaves the tunnel after they paid tribute at the site of the accident in Sierre, western Switzerland, on March 15. Twenty-eight people, including 22 children, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday died in a bus accident in Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais, Swiss police said Wednesday.
Family members of the victims in yesterday's deadly bus crash in a Swiss tunnel, were taken to the scene of the accident that killed 22 schoolchildren and 6 adults. The bus was carrying Belgium students returning from a school ski trip. According to AP, before visiting the site, the relatives were also taken to the morgue to help identify bodies.
-- Reuters and AP contributed to this report
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A young girl looks out from behind a fence with tributes attached to it at the 't Stekske school in Lommel, Belgium, on March 15. Belgium is preparing to fly back home the bodies of 22 schoolchildren and six adults who died after a bus bringing them back from a skiing holiday slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in Switzerland. The bus was carrying students from two towns, Lommel, east of Antwerp, and Heverlee, near Leuven.
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School children lay tributes in front of the St. Lambertius school in Heverlee on March 15, for the victims of the Swiss bus crash. Twenty-eight people were killed when a coach packed with schoolchildren crashed in southern Switzerland as they returned to Belgium from a skiing holiday, Swiss police said.
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Chlidren react as they pay their respect at a memory wall outside the City Hall in Lommel, Belgium, on March 15. Twenty-eight people, including 22 children from two schools in the Belgian cities of Lommel and Heverlee, who were on their way home to Belgium from a skiing holiday, died in a bus accident in Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais, Swiss police said 14 March 2012.
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Damaged cars are seen on the A1 highway near Cloppenburg, Germany on Jan. 20. More than 50 vehicles crashed during a row of accidents. The reason of the disaster is yet unclear.
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An aerial view showing wrecked cars and trucks after a multiple vehicle accident on A1 freeway near Cloppenburg, Germany, on Jan. 20.
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Damaged trucks are pictured on the A1 highway near Cloppenburg, Germany on Jan. 20. More than 50 vehicles crashed during a row of accidents. The reason of the disaster is yet unclear.
Low visibility due to foggy weather contributed to a car crash that involved over 50 cars along the autobahn in Cloppenburg, Germany. According to the Telegraph, three people were killed and 35 injured in the pileup that closed 6 miles of the highway.
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Damaged cars are pictured on the motorway A1 near German village of Cloppenburg on Jan. 20.
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Firefighters rescue a San Juan Capistrano family from a car dangling over a bridge after a fiery crash on Highway 101 near Buellton, Calif.
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A big rig that burned after going off a bridge on Highway 101 in Califormia on Thursday lays covered with fire-extinguishing foam. The truck driver was killed, but firefighters rescued a mother and her two daughters.
A fiery crash south of Buellton, Calif. on Highway 101 claimed the life of a truck driver Thursday afternoon, but emergency personnel were able to rescue a family of three from a vehicle dangling over the side of the freeway bridge.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the northbound gravel truck, traveling in the fast lane, struck the BMW from behind and then careened off a bridge and into the creek adjacent to the freeway, where it burst into flames, killing the truck driver.
"The BMW was then forced into the center concrete wall where the three parties in the BMW became trapped in the vehicle." said Officer Danny Maher, California Highway Patrol.
Inside the car was Kelli Groves, 36, Sage Groves, 10, and Milo Groves, 10 weeks, and one by one they were extricated from the vehicle that clung to a concrete guardrail above Nojoqui Creek in the Three Bridges area.
The Santa Maria Times and KSBY-TV contributed to the report.
A team of Navy Seabees happened to drive by just in time to help save a mother and her two children. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.
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Personnel from the Health Department check the condition of ice cream that spilled on Interstate 69, Dec. 23, 2011, in Fort Wayne, Ind. Police said 40,000 pounds of ice cream spilled from a semitrailer closing two lanes of I-69 at the start of the holiday weekend.
The Journal Gazette reports: The crash happened shortly before 4 p.m., spilling cartons of vanilla, caramel praline crunch and other flavors onto the interstate.
Police said the truck driver had minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital to be checked out. Read more…
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An overturned semitrailer carrying a load of Edy's ice cream is seen on Interstate 69 on Friday.
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