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1 July | • | Mauritania Airline's Fokker 28
from Nouakchott, capital of
Mauritania, crashed at Tidjikja
Airport in northern central
Mauritania in West Africa
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2 July | • | US Air domestic DC9 (with five
crew and 52 passengers) from
Colombia, North Carolina,
crashed on landing in storm
and burned 800 m from runway
at Charlotte International
Airport, North Carolina, killing
37 and injuring 29 passengers
and crew
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3 July | • | Explosion on train bound for
Wuchang from Fuzhou near
Junchang, Fujian Province,
China, killing 19 and injuring
49
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13 July | • | Fifth Brunel Award (international
railway-carriage design
prize) awarded to Haruka Express
(281 system) of JR West
in short-distance train section,
and to Tsubame Express (787
system) of JR Kyushu in longdistance
train section
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15 July | • | Two Max (El system) double
decker trains enter operation
on Tohoku and Joetsu
shinkansen lines to cope with
increased commuters. Each
train consists of 12 carriages
with total of 1235 seats, 40%
increase over conventional
200 system. Trains operate
during day. Max stands for
Multi Amenity Express
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19 July | • | Japan's ocean-going shipping
business hard hit by steep appreciation
of yen. Five leading
shipping firms posted substantial
total operating deficit of
about ¥21.3 billion, according
to White Paper Present State
of Japanese Shipping released
by Transport Ministry.
Rise of l yen against dollar
means loss of about ¥1.25 billion.
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20 July | • | Matsumoto Electric Railway
(head office Matsumoto City,
Nagano Prefecture) introduced
four diesel-electric hybrid
buses to operate on bus
route between Kamikochi, entrance
to Northern Alps, in
Azumimura, Nagano Prefecture,
and Asumi-Sawando at
foot of mountains. Buses powered
by 12-V batteries cut
black smoke emission by 70%
and NOx by 30% compared
with ordinary buses
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26 July | • | Matsumoto Airport in Nagano
Prefecture becomes 52nd jet
airport in Japan with runway
extended from 1500 m to 2000
m. As result, YS-11s replaced
by MD-87s
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| • | Armed bandits attack train
bound for Kampot in Kampot
Province in southern Cambodia
from Phnom Penh, killing 9
passengers and solders and
injuring many others
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28 July | • | Construction work started on
about 1-km single track elevated
railway line from JR
Nichinan Station to Miyazaki
Airport building as joint project
of 4th Port and Harbor Bureau
of Transport Ministry, Miyazaki
Prefectural Government and
JR Kyushu. Trains to reach
Miyazaki Airport directly, and
about 3.5-km section from
Minami- Miyazaki to Miyazaki
Airport to be electrified. Commercial
service scheduled to
start in fiscal 1996
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| • | Four armed robbers hijacked
40-seater bus in Pyatigorsk,
Caucasia, southern Russia,
demanding ransom of $15 million
and helicopter for escape.
Special police squad made
surprise attack on hijackers
when about to board helicopter
with hostages. Hand grenade
exploded by hijacker
killed four hostages and one
hijacker and injured six police
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3 August | • | Number of visitors to Tokyo
Disneyland since opening in
April 1983, reached 150 million.
Number of visitors increased
at double pace compared
to parent, Disneyland,
Los Angeles. 150 millionth
person was company employee
from Kobe City visiting
with three family members.
Presented with certificate, 5-
year free pass and other gifts
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| • | Six-car electric train bound for
Osaka from Shin-Mita collided
with 2-tonne truck at crossing
(with alarm) on JR
Fukuchiyama Line. First car
derailed and overturned, second
car derailed, killing one
passenger and truck driver
and slightly injuring another
passenger
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4 August | • | Railway equipment investment
by 15 leading private railway
companies including
Tobu Railway and Kinki
Nippon Railway total ¥399 billion
this fiscal year, down ¥6
billion from last fiscal year, according
to investment plans
announced by Japan Non-
Government Railways Association.
Investments broken
down into ¥198.6 billion for
transport capacity expansion
including construction of
double-double track lines,
¥145.5 billion for safety measures
including construction of
crossings, ¥321.7 billion for
improved services including
air-conditioned cars
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5 August | • | Russian military AN12 propeller
transport plane crashed on
landing at military airport west
of Chita, western Siberia, killing
all 47 officers and others
aboard
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8 August | • | JR West filed applications with
Osaka and Tokyo stock exchanges
for listing on stock
markets. JR West second of
JR companies to apply for listing,
following JR East
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10 August | • | Korea Airlines Airbus A300
(with 160 crew and passengers)
from Seoul crashed on
landing at Cheju International
Airport. Over-ran runway,
smashed into security facility
and burned. All passengers
and crew escaped, with 15
slightly injured
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11 August | • | Southbound express train
bound for Masan from Taegu
collided head-on with north-
bound express train bound for
Taegu from Pusan on
Kyongpu line in Milyang
County, South Kyongsang
Province, South Korea, killing
four (two engine drivers, one
assistant and one passenger)
and injuring about 200 passengers,
some seriously
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| • | Suburban train smashed into
derailed freight rain in
Belgorod, central Russia, killing
at least 17 and injuring 40
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13 August | • | Train bound for Shenjiang in
Guangzhou Province from
Guilin exploded in Chuan autonomous
region of Guanxi
Province
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14 August | • | Several front cars of passenger
train derailed and overturned
as smashed into standing
freight train near Tbilisi,
Gruzia, killing at least 20 passengers
and injuring many
others
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18 August | • | Ceremony held to mark start
of shield machine drilling 9.4-
km submarine tunnel section
of 15km link across Tokyo Bay
between Kawasaki in
Kanagawa Prefecture and
Kisarazu City in Chiba Prefecture.
Shield machine about 14
m in external diameter (largest
in world) and about 13.5 m in
length. Machine moves ahead
as 1142 cutters at head rotate,
while ferro-concrete inner
walls assembled automatically.
Tunnel scheduled for
completion in 1996
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20 August | • | 1.9-km Astramline, new traffic
system connecting central
Hiroshima with Hiroshima Port
outside city, started commercial
service as ninth of kind in
Japan. One-man operated
system, with 1.9-km underground
section in city center
scheduled for use by Asian
games opening on 2 October
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21 August | • | Morocco Airline's propeller
plane crashed north of Agadir
in southern Morocco, killing all
4 crew and 40 passengers.
Captain crashed plane deliberately
to commit suicide
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25 August | • | Super-high rise twin building
called JR Central Towers to be
built at Nagoya Station. Main
building with four basement
floors and 18 floors above
ground, and two other buildings:
51-storey office building
(240 m) and 53-storey hotel
building (230 m). Scheduled
for completion in 1999
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1 September | • | JRs announced special group
discount for students be applied
to groups of less than 15
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4 September | • | 24-hour Kansai International
Airport opened for service on
man-made island in Osaka
Bay with network connecting
22 countries and 24 domestic
cities
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5 September | • | JR East held first R&D symposium,
For Renovation of Technical
Service Industry, in Tokyo
to search for development
targets for railway technologies
in next century. Commemorated
ideas of late
Isamu Yamashita, adviser to
JR East, who devoted himself
to JR East's technical development
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8 September | • | US Air domestic B737 (with
127 passengers and 5 crew)
bound for West Palm Beach,
Florida, from Pittsburgh via
Chicago, crashed and burned
at Pittsburgh International Airport,
Pennsylvania, just before
landing killing all aboard. US
Air fifth air accident in 5 years,
with three accidents involving
B737s
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9 September | • | Tu136 passenger plane in
flight training collided in midair
with Tu22 strategic bomber .
Tu136 crashed and burned,
killing all 8 crew aboard. Tu22
made emergency landing
safely on nearby airstrip
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12 September | • | Single-engine Cessna crashed
in south garden of White House.
Pilot killed. President Clinton
and family safe in Blair House.
Possibility of terrorism denied
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18 September | • | Nigerian passenger plane
bound for Lagos from Tunis
crashed on landing near
Tamanrasset in southern Algeria,
killing four of 46 crew
and passengers and injuring
23 others
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23 September | • | Heavy transport plane made
unsuccessful take-off and ran
off runway into sea at Kai Tak
Airport, Hong Kong Six people
saved but three killed, and another
three reported missing
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26 September | • | Yakoblev 40 passenger plane
crashed in central Siberia due
to bad weather, killing all 26
crew and passengers Third air
accident this year in Siberia
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27 September | • | JR East with Odakyu Electric
Railway to construct superhigh
rise twin building, named
JR East Japan Head Office
Building/Odakyu Shinjuku
South Building on south side
of Shinjuku Station JR East
Japan Building to be 28
storeys with four basement
floors and total floor area of
about 79,199 m² Odakyu
Building to be 36-storeys with
four basement floors and total
floor area of about 79,600 m²
Scheduled for completion in
fiscal 1997
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28 September | • | Large RoRo ferry Estonia
bound for Sweden from Estonia
ran aground and sank in
Baltic Sea off Finland. Of
1,049 crew and passengers,
140 saved, 65 dead and 844
reported missing
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1 October | • | 30 years passed since
Tokaido Shinkansen made debut
as "dream super-express"
In meantime, carried total of
2.8 billion passengers with no
deaths. Total distance covered about 1.04 billion km,
equal to about 26,000 times
around globe. Time to cover
distance between Tokyo and
Shin-Osaka shortened from 4
hours in initial period to 2
hours and 30 minutes
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14 October | • | Ceremony held to celebrate
establishment of "Railway
Day" (14 October) at hotel in
Shinjuku, Tokyo, with attendance
of Prince and Princess
Akishino
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| • | Sapporo Municipal Subway
opened subway service in
Hosui Susukino- Fukuzumi
section (5.6km) on Toho Line,
completing subway artery running
through city from south to
north, together with already
completed northern half section
(between Sakaemachi
and Hosui Susukino)
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15 October | • | British Rail trains collided
head-on on single track line in
morning in Cowden, Kent, in
outskirts of London, killing five
passengers and others and injuring
at least 11. Thick fog
hung low over accident
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16 October | • | Ferryboat fully loaded with
passengers capsized in rough
sea off southeast Bangladesh,
with more than 150 passengers
reported dead or missing.
Another ferryboat overturned
in country in latter part of August,
claiming lives of about
250 passengers
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19 October | • | Public bus exploded in Tel
Aviv, killing 22 passengers
and injuring 48 others. After
incident, extremist
organisation claimed responsibility
for explosion in statement
to local media
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| • | Ansett Australia Boeing 74720
October 300, flight number
881, bound for Kansai International
Airport from Sydney Airport,
Australia, failed on landing
but none of 273 passengers
and crew injured. Accident
occurred when airplane
returning to airport after abnormality
found in hydraulic
system after take-off
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20 October | • | 2-car commuter bus collided
with freight train at unmanned
crossing in Beijing early in
morning, killing 20 and injuring
more than 30 persons
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21 October | • | Central part (about 50-m long)
of Songsu Big Bridge (about
1,160m long, and 19.4m
wide), spanning Hangang
River in central part of Seoul
suddenly collapsed early in
morning, and city buses and
passenger cars fell about 20m
into river, killing 32 persons
and injuring 17. Bridge completed
in October 1979 by
truss construction method
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22 October | • | Tanasis, Maltese-registered,
19,855-tonne deadweight
tanker, sank in storm in South
China Sea about 300km off
llocos Sur Province in southern
part of Luzon Island, Philippines.
Of 36 crewmen, 17 reported
missing. Tanker on
voyage from Nakhodka, Russia,
to Singapore
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24 October | • | Chungju No. 5,55 tonne pleasure
boat, with 131 passengers
and crew aboard, burned
on Lake Chungju in Tanyang
County, North Chungchong
Province, South Korea. 25
dead, 4 missing and 33 injured,
some seriously. Another
ship disaster occurred in October
1993, when ferryboat sank
in Yellow Sea, killing 292
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28 October | • | Ground-breaking ceremony
held for construction of New
Joban Line in front of
Akihabara Station, starting
point of line. New Joban Line
attracting attention as new
railway line to connect centre
of Tokyo to southern part of
Ibaraki Prefecture. First case
to which special law intended
to promote railway construction
together with housing development
applied. Construction
cost about ¥80 billion, and
new railway line scheduled to
be put into service in year
2000
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| • | Ceremony held to start construction
work on Kitakyushu
airport planned on man-made
island off Kanda-machi in
Fukuoka Prefecture. Airport
with 2,500m runway, scheduled
to be completed in 2005
at total construction cost of
¥215 billion
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| • | Time-bomb planted in passenger
train exploded in western
part of Cambodia, killing 7
passengers and seriously injuring
10 others
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29 October | • | airplane accidents occurred
one after other in Siberia, Russia,
killing at least 26 passengers
and crewmen. Antonov 2
airplane, belonging to private
airline company Aeronika,
failed in landing and burned at
Ust-llimsk Airport north of
Irkutsk, killing 21 passengers.
Engine of single-engined
Antonov 2 airplane, owned by
local airline company
Yakutavia, ignited north of
Yakutsk just after take-off.
Tried to return to airport but
failed on landing and burned,
killing 5 and injuring 9
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31 October | • | American Eagle's large commuter
plane, Super ATR 72
(double-engined turboprop
plane), bound for Chicago
from Indianapolis, crashed
just before landing at O'Hare
International Airport at Chicago,
Indiana, killing all 68
passengers and crew. In
United States, two of U.S. Air's
airplanes crashed one after
other in July and September,
claiming lives of 169 passengers
and crew
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1 November | • | JR East developed next-generation
electric train, TRY-Z (E
991 series), to run on existing
railway tracks with designed
maximum speed of 200km/h.
Running tests started on
Joban line to raise previous
highest speed of 130km/h on
conventional lines to 160km/h.
Three cars, operating on both
AC and DC, with aluminium
bodies, make up train.
Equipped with newly designed
brakes to respond to high
speed operation
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2 November | • | World Tourism Forum '94 held
in Osaka until 6 November under
theme of "Tourism Designing
for Future of Earth", attended
by government officials
concerned with tourist administration,
including ministers,
from 96 countries and regions
of world
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3 November | • | SAS airliner (MD80) hijacked
by man with hand-grenade
while flying over northern part
of Norway. Plane forced to
land at Gardermoen Airport
near Oslo. Hijacker called for
humanitarian aid to civil
wartorn Bosnia, but surrendered.
All 128 passengers and
crew safe
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9 November | • | Medium-sized bus smashed
crossing gate and hit by train
in Honan Province, China, killing
16 and injuring 35 others,
some seriously
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11 November | • | Bus fell into lake in State of
Assam in north-east of India,
killing at least 56 persons
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14 November | • | Eurotunnel started super-express
train service between
Paris-Brussels-London with
two runs a day from Monday to
Friday and one run on Sundays
(no run on Saturdays).
First class fare of 810 francs.
Takes three hours from Paris,
and 3 hours and 15 minutes
from Brussels, to London
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18 November | • | JR Cargo, which posted first
deficit in FY1993, formulated
"Freight 21" as 10-year midterm
reconstruction plan, envisaging
restructuring transportation
system on basis of
container transportation and
boosting revenue to 'f265 billion
by 2003 (¥205.8 billion for
FY1993). At same time, plan
aims to promote early retirement
and reduce employment
in railway transportation sector
to 7,000 persons (against
9,200 at present)
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21 November | • | 22m section of upper bridge
for pedestrians collapsed in
Seoul, Korea, as trailer running
on lower bridge for vehicles
hit girder, and fell on
four cars, including bus and
taxi, on opposite lane, killing
bus driver and one passenger,
and injuring 8 bus passengers,
some seriously. One month
earlier, Songsu Big Bridge collapsed
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22 November | • | 2-engined plane moving onto
runway touched TWA MD80,
taking off for Denver, at Lambert
International Airport, St.
Louis, Missouri, USA. 2-
engined plane burned, killing
pilot and another person on
board and eight passengers
on TWA plane injured lightly
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24 November | • | TU134 passenger plane,
bound for Minsk via St. Petersburg
from Komi Republic in
Urals, Russia, hijacked. Three
hijackers surrendered after
plane arrived at Tallinn Airport,
Estonia 30 November
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30 November | • | Achille Lauro, 23,478-tonne
deadweight Italian passenger
ship, burned off Somalia,
North Africa, killing 3 and injuring
8 of about 1,000 passengers.
Survivors left ship on
life-boats and rescued by
tanker and other ships nearby.
Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian
guerrillas in Mediterranean
in October 1985, with
about 400 passengers made
hostage
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2 December | • | M.V. 70, 2,450-tonne ferryboat,
with 540 passengers and
crew, collided with Kota Suria,
12,000-tonne Singaporean
cargo ship, at mouth of Manila
Bay, Philippines, and sank.
447 passengers rescued, but
34 dead and 115 reported
missing
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| • | Express train derailed and
turned over at Szajol southeast
of Budapest, Hungary,
hitting station building, killing
at least 29 passengers and
station building workers
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3 December | • | Third-sector Chizu Express
Railway line (56.1km between
Kamigori and Chizu), connecting
Osaka-Kobe area with
Sanin district opened. Super
Hakuto, express connection
with JR, shortened travel time
between Osaka and Tottori to
2 hours and 30 minutes
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7 December | • | Extended section between
Nerima and Shinsakuradai
(1.4km) of Seibu Line opened
service to connect with
Ikebukuro Line. Also connected
to existing section between
Shinsakuradai and
Kotake-mukaihara (1.2km) to
be further linked to Yurakucho
Line of Eidan Subway. New
tracks laid for Yurakucho Line
of Eidan Subway between
Kotake-mukaigahara and
Ikebukuro (3.2km) to complete
four-track line. New Station at
Shinsen Ikebukuro
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10 December | • | Fire at midnight at substation
of JR East at Shinjuku, Tokyo,
suspending JR railway services
in metropolitan area.
Power supply restored shortly
after noon on 11 December.
741 trains suspended, in
conveniencing 233,000 persons.
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11 December | • | Explosion in central cabin of
Philippine Air Lines' B747
bound for Narita from Manila
via Cebu Island. Airplane
made emergency landing at
Naha Airport. 24-year old
Japanese man killed by explosion
caused by bomb
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13 December | • | American Eagle's Jet Stream
Super 31, short-distance take
off double-engined turboprop
plane, crashed near Raleigh
durhum International Airport,
with 20 passengers and crew
aboard 13 killed. Same airline
company had air accident in
Indiana at end of October.
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21 December | • | Explosive ignited in subway
car near Wall Street, New
York, and passengers panicked
by flames and smoke.
Fire extinguished by off-duty
policeman. At least 41 passengers
taken to hospital with
burns and other injuries
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22 December | • | Eurotunnel started passenger
car train service, Le Shuttle
connecting Folkestone with
Calais in 35 minutes
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24 December | • | Air France Airbus A 300, about
to take off at Algiers International
Airport, Algeria, with 283
passengers and crew aboard,
hijacked by 4 armed guerrillas.
Group belonged to fundamentalist
Islamic extremists. Plane
flew to Marseille in South
France after 3 passengers
killed. France's anti-terrorist
commandos, standing by at
Marianne Airport, stormed
plane and killed all guerrillas
liberating all 173 hostages. 25
persons, including 9 commandos
injured, some seriously
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28 December | • | Major earthquake, with
epicentre off Sanriku district
measuring 6 on Japanese
scale at Hachinohe City,
Aomori Prefecture, killed 2
and injured 285. Railway track
in Hachinohe - Noheji section
of JR Tohoku Line collapsed,
suspending train service.
About 52,500 persons hurrying
home at year-end compelled
to make roundabout trip
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29 December | • | Turkish domestic airliner,
B737 bound for Van from Ankara,
crashed with 76 passengers
and crew aboard, near
Van Airport killing 54 and injuring
22. Visibility poor due to
snowstorm
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