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  A fire in Ostankino TV tower

  

  27 August 2000. At 15:08 in the control center if the Metropolitan Fire Service a message arrives about a fire in the antenna part of the Ostankino TV tower. 10 minutes later the firemen are on the scene, as well as rescue workers from EMERCOM. As it turned out later, there was a fire at around the 450 meter mark, caused by a short-circuit in the high-voltage cables, which lead to their sheaths catching fire. Around 7 p.m. in the evening news arrives that at an altitude of 225 meters an elevator is stuck. In its cabin are three passengers. Rescuers are immediately sent up, but they cannot go higher than 220 meters.

• 00:01:40

  Building explosions on Kashirke street

  

  In September 1999, in Moscow there were a number of horrific attacks. An explosion of building Number 6/3 on Kashira Highway on September 13, at 5 a.m. in the morning. This time no one doubted that this was a terrorist act. Later it was discovered that the power of the explosion was equal to 300 kilograms of TNT. This is enough to completely destroy the 8-story building and severely damage nearby buildings.

• 00:02:32

  Terrorism in Moscow subway

  

  Moscow. August 8, 2000. The underground crossing in the metro Pushkinskaya subway station. People were coming back home from work. The time was two minutes before six. At this moment an explosion went off... The blast wave spread over the entire crossing. From the trading kiosks glass fell down on people. A fire began. Morning of February 6, 2004. During the rush hour, the subway is crowded. In the electric train going on the ""Avtozavodskaya"" - ""Paveletskaya"" track more than a thousand people were traveling. At 8 o'clock 40 minutes after the train left the ""Avtozavodskaya"" station, in the second car an explosion thundered.August 31, 2004. An act of terrorism near Rizhskaya subway station. 10 people died and 51 were injured. By a miracle larger losses were avoided. A suicide bomber was going to go down into the subway and commit an act of terrorism there. But at the entrance to the underground she was frightened off by a police squad.

• 00:00:55

  Car accident in Venezuela

  

  On a Sunday morning in April on a highway near the city of Barcelona, in the province of Anzo?tegui, in the north-east of Venezuela, there was yet a terrible road accident with loss of life.

• 00:00:51

  Landslides in Mexico

  

  October 1999. For almost a week a cyclone raged in Mexico, spawning storms which caused huge downpours. The amount of rainfall that week was several times higher than the annual norm. Dozens of small towns and villages were destroyed by landslides. Under the rubble at least 500 people died, 300 are missing. The small town of Tapayula, in the state of Puebla, suffered the most, 22 people were buried alive in a landslide that destroyed the church.

• 00:04:07

  Crash at air show claims the lives of hundreds of spectators

  

  The city of Lvov, July 27, 2002. The military airfield Sknylov was crowded with people who came to see an air show with military aircraft. Though, in seconds the show turned into a terrible massacre for its visitors. The pilots were going to make a high-flying stunt called "an oblique loop with a turn." Suddenly, the pilots realized their altitude was not sufficient for this trick. The aircraft started to drift down and down. Almost touching the ground, the pilots tried to get the plane to a safe altitude but its wing struck an Il-76 standing in the field. The Su-27 went out of control and smashed into the ground, with its pilots ejecting mere seconds before the tragedy. The out of control aircraft kept going – into the spectators. The burning plane slid sideways on one wing through a crowd of standing spectators. Having skidded several dozen meters, the aircraft toppled over and exploded.

• 00:01:35

  The Last Flight of Russian aircraft

  

  It’s a calm Saturday afternoon. We’re at aviation festival near Samara. The pilot flying the prototype is the famous Russian aircraft designer Igor Vakhrushev. What no one knows, however, is that this will be his last flight. Everything’s going according to plan. Here’s the take-off, the plane levels off and passes the aerodrome. There are a few seconds of calm before things go horribly wrong. It seems that the tail of the plane had been damaged, perhaps as the plane was transported onto the field. The plane literally falls out of the sky from about 90 feet (up). Sadly, despite local medical technician’s best efforts, Vakrushev did not survive. His legacy does, however, as many planes that he designed still fly today.

• 00:01:56

  Daring rescues

  

  Residents of the building discover an unhinged neighbor screaming out of his window that he’s going to kill himself. They call for help and a team of firemen arrives almost immediately, and begins raising the ladder for a rescue. Together, they’re eventually able to drag him back onto the ladder, though he’s not helping them one bit, hanging there like a rag doll. Amazingly, this story has a happy ending.