Certainly, people are killed by weather, and it is also obvious that too many Americans live in houses, apartments or shacks devoid of electronics and sometimes also of heat, water and food.
On Wednesday a TransAsia Airways flight in Taiwan crashed in bad weather, killing 48 passengers including two French exchange students.
On Jan . 7 a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in bad weather, killing eight soldiers and four American civilians.
In 1974, a navy landing ship capsized off the south coast in stormy weather, killing 159 sailors and coast guard personnel.
In October 2013, a civilian plane operated by Lao Airlines plunged into the Mekong river in bad weather, killing all 49 people on board.
Abbassian warned prices could rise higher still, amid fears of droughts in Argentina and floods in Australia and cold weather killing plants in the northern hemisphere.
PAGE A13 MEDICAL COPTER CRASH KILLS 4 A Maryland State Police medical evacuation helicopter crashed in foggy weather, killing four of the five people on board, including victims of a traffic accident.
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md .(AP) — A Maryland State Police medical evacuation helicopter crashed early Sunday in foggy weather, killing four of the five people on board in the latest of a growing number of air ambulance accidents, the authorities said.
And in 1990 a Bell Jetranger crashed in bad weather, killing Sgt Malcolm Herd and injuring the pilot and crew.
The Airbus 330-203 airliner plunged into the sea off Brazil en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro in June 2009 after hitting stormy weather, killing all 228 passengers and crew.
