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What You'll Find Here.  Newspaper articles about Train Wrecks, Fires, Floods, Shipwrecks, Plane Crashes, Accidents and other disasters.  Most of these articles list the dead and injured or missing. Use the Search Box to search for your ancestors or Browse the articles by type of disaster, state or year.

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Deatsville, AL 16 Year Old Civil Air Patrol Cadet Crashes CAP L23 Super Blanik Glider Into A Power-line in Residential Area, July 2017

Submitted by Buzz Kill

16-year-old Civil Air Patrol Cadet Pilot Crash Lands Glider in Deatsville  read more »

Rome, GA Civil Air Patrol Maule MT-7-235 Damaged on Landing, July 2008

Submitted by Buzz Kill

By NTSB | FAA Aviation Accident Database

PRELIMINARY REPORT  read more »

Grand Island, NE Auto And Cattle Truck Crash, Oct 1950

Submitted by Stu Beitler

SIX FROM BEATRICE DIE IN ROAD CRASH.

(By the Associated Press)  read more »

Laketown, UT Plane Crash Victims Found, Aug 1938

Submitted by Stu Beitler

FIND VICTIMS OF PLANE CRASH.

Laketown, Utah, (AP) - The bodies of two men killed in an airplane crash 14 miles southwest of this Utah-Idaho border town were found Monday.  read more »

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