14th August 2005, Helios Airways 522 from Larnaca to Prague with a stopover in Athens crashes just outside the capital near the town of Grammatiko killing 121 (brief story in comments)
"If it disappears, this is what it looks like" - At the time, a sarcastic joke... But 3 hours later all 298 passengers and crew aboard this Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 after the plane was shot down by Separatists in Donetsk, Ukraine
The Cost of Operation Overlord, June 6th 1944 - 30th August 1944
Both aircraft in this image taken at JFK in 1996 would be involved in a disaster, the Egyptair 767 in 1999 as Egyptair 990, which crashed into the Atlantic after takeoff from Kennedy and the Concorde as AF4590 in 2000, crashing just outside Paris on route
Ladder 118 racing over the Brooklyn Bridge towards the World Trade Center, its firefighters Vernon Cherry, Leon Smith, Joey Agnello, Robert Regan, Pete Vega, and Scott Davidson did not make it out of the tower, but had helped rescue more than 900 people
A burn victim of HMS Sheffield. 4th May 1982, Falklands War. The crew battled the raging fires onboard the ship after being hit by an Exocet for 4 hours before Captain James Salt ordered the crew to abandon ship. 20 were killed with another 26 wounded. Sh
1st Lt Baldomero López leading his platoon of Marines over the sea wall at Incheon. Minutes later he would be killed jumping on a live grenade he had dropped after being shot. For his actions he was awarded the Medal of Honor. September 15th 1950
Charred corpse of a female Montagnard, a victim of the Đắk Sơn massacre December 5th 1967, South Vietnam
Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda walking through the wreckage of Lauda Air 004. May 1991, Phu Toei National Park, Thailand.
One of the many vehicle graveyards left over from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Ukraine SSR. Vehicles contaminated were left in fields, stripped of engines, wiring and weapons. then left to rust...In recent years the Ukrainian government has been
Fang Zheng with their legs crushed by a Chinese tank during the Tiananmen Square. It remains one of the most heavily censored events in modern Chinese history.
Bombing of Avianca 203, Narco terrorism in Colombia killing all 107 passengers and crew along with 3 on the ground. Colombia would see justice done 4 years later (see last picture
The final moments of Dornier Do17z F1+FH of Kampfgeschwader 76 (Story in comments)
Ustica Massacre 1980, the unsolved crash of Itavia Flight 870 (more in comments)
Rebuilt remains of a Boeing 747-100 N93119, Story in comments
1st July 2002, Bashkirian Airlines 2937 (Tupelov 154) and DHL 611 (Boeing 757) collide over Baden-Württemberg, Germany. All 69 people including 45 children onboard the Tupelov were killed plus the 2 pilots onboard the DHL 757
Very naked sex
This is Ismael Hadi, a homeless man from Yemen, who was known for feeding stray dogs. He was found dead this morning with the dogs refusing to leave his side.
A daughter documents her parents in a photo essay as they battle cancer simultaneously (xpost from /r/jessicamshannon)
This, and two other incidents of tear gas canisters that found their way into protestors’ brains today in Baghdad after just a few hours of protests, i will be posting more of this stuff cuz I’m not seeing any attention for it in reddit
When the Australian bushfires get too close to you, the RFS send an emergency message explaining that "it's too late to leave"
Guy who killed his mom and friend just made a final Facebook status while on the run 2 hours ago.
None of the pictures posted of tieniman square ever show the reality of that event, this is what the Chinese government really did
September 11, 2001 there was one American in space. This is the picture he took from the International Space Station
