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917 results found for '"Accidents"' in Keywords.
Flixborough explosion (1974)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
David Rutherland(?) reports from the scene of the Flixborough Chemical plant explosion on Humberside (01/06/74). Includes interviews with unidentified eyewitnesses and workers. Also includes speech by...
Tasman Bridge disaster (1975)
- Genre
- Interview
Two eyewitness reports on a bridge disaster in Tasmania. Part of the Tasman Bridge crashed into the Derwent River on 05/01/75 after a freighter collided with the structure. Speakers not identified.
Moorgate Tube Disaster - survivor describes ordeal (1975)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
Male survivor of the Moorgate Tube Disaster describes his escape from an underground train carriage following the crash at Moorgate Station on the Northern Line (28/02/75).
War orphans killed in Vietnamese plane crash (1975)
- Genre
- News report
Julian Manyon reports on a plane crash near Saigon, Vietnam (04/04/75). The C-5A Galaxy aeroplane, piloted by the US Airforce, was taking part in Operation Babylift and most of those killed were Vietnamese...
USSR space failure (1976)
- Genre
- News report
Report on Soviet splashdown after failure of Soyuz-23 mission. Cosmonauts, Lieutenant-Colonel Vyacheslav Zudov and Lieutenant-Colonel Valery Rozhestvensky were recovered from a lake in Asia were blown off...
Seveso chemical accident decontamination (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Frank Jackman of British chemical engineering consultants Cremer Warner, on decontamination of Seveso, Italy after three towns were poisoned by dioxin dust from a chemical factory on 3/8/76. Interviewer not...
Seveso chemical accident (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Interview with Alex Warner, chemical pollution expert, on the cleaning up process in the Seveso disaster (10/07/76) - an industrial accident that occurred in a small chemical manufacturing plant at Seveso in...
Man loses 3 children as result of Northern Ireland shooting (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Vivian White interviews John Maguire, three of whose children were run over and killed in Andersonstown, West Belfast when a (Provisional?) IRA driver was shot dead by the British Army. Maguire says that...
Ekofisk oilfield accident (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
An unidentified Norwegian spokesman for Phillips Petroleum explains what happened to the Ekofisk oil rig during the blowout on 22/04/77. Male reporter not identified.
Ekofisk oilfield accident (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Ric Davies reports an attempt to cap the Bravo Oil Rig in the North Sea following a blowout in the Ekofisk oilfield. Includes interview with Haken Blo(?), Phillips Petroleum; Tony Benn, Energy Minister;...