Accidents
As of October 6, 2011 there has been 387 hull-loss accidents of An-2, claiming a total of 365 human lives. One of the most recent accidents occurred around noon on September 3, 2011 in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, where an Antonov An-2 was dusting crops and hit a treetop while taking off after refueling. The plane tumbled down and hit the ground, bursting into flames, killing its 60 year old pilot.
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)