"story of the R101 airship, which crashed on its maiden voyage in northern France on 5 October 1930. The song was written entirely by the band's lead vocalist, Bruce Dickinson, who initially intended it to be about ""World War I fighter airplanes;"" Dickinson abandoned the idea after using the same theme for the song ""Death or Glory,"" also from ""The Book of Souls"". At the time of recording, Dickinson was reading ""a big, sort of encyclopedic crash report"" of the R101, entitled ""To Ride the Storm"", which gave him the idea for the song's eventual subject. Dickinson describes it as"
"set off to make its proving flight to India under unfavorable weather conditions. After seven hours in the air it crashed and caught fire near Beauvais in northern France, killing 48 of the 54 aboard, including Lord Thomson and V. C. Richmond. The exact cause is still a matter of dispute amongst airship enthusiasts and historians. Sir Peter Masefield lists thirteen factors in his detailed history of R101: without any one of them the disaster might not have happened. The desire of all involved to achieve the flight to India before the conclusion of the 1930 Imperial Conference (at which"
"the 52 killed in the French military ""Dixmude"" in 1923, and the 73 killed when the USS ""Akron"" crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey in 1933. R101 was built as part of a British government initiative to develop airships to provide passenger and mail transport from Britain to the most distant parts of the British Empire, including India, Australia and Canada, since these distances were too great for heavier-than-air aircraft of the period. The Burney Scheme of 1922 had proposed a civil airship development programme to be carried out by a specially established subsidiary of"
"of Shortstown.During the 1920s the giant airship R101 was built at Cardington, while its sister ship, the R100 was brought to Cardington in December 1929. The R101 set off for its maiden flight to India on the evening of 4 October 1930 but in the early hours of the next morning, it crashed into a hillside at Beauvais in France, killing all but six of its fifty-four crew and passengers. The shock of this tragedy brought an abrupt end to this phase of British airship manufacture and the R100 was broken up. The shorts building was built in 1917. It"
"as Officer in Charge of Design and Research, becoming responsible for the design of the R101. Richmond was a contemporary of Neville Shute Norway who worked on the design for the rival Vickers R100 design. After a number of trial flights the R101 set out on its maiden voyage from England to India. The airship was wrecked near Beauvais, France early on 5 October 1930 having struck the ground and caught fire. Richmond was one of the forty-eight people killed in the accident. National feeling surrounding the disaster was huge; the funeral procession through London was watched by thousands. The"
"981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed in a forest northeast of Paris, France. The London-bound plane crashed shortly after taking off from Orly airport; all 346 people on board died. It was later determined that the cargo door detached, which caused an explosive decompression; this caused the floor just above to collapse. The collapsed floor severed the control cables, which left the pilots without control of the elevators, the rudder and No. 2 engine. The plane entered a steep dive and crashed. It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in 1977. 329: On June"
"team led by Barnes Wallis who had co-designed the R80. After her first flight in December 1929, R100 made a successful round trip to Quebec in Canada in July and August the following year. The competing R101 was designed and built by the Air Ministry and was supposed to encourage new approaches. R101 was severely overweight, largely due to the decision to use diesel engines to reduce fire risk, and it was decided to lengthen the airship's hull to increase lift. In October 1930 R101 set off to Karachi on its first overseas flight but crashed in northern France in"
"streets crowded with mourners. The bodies were then taken to Cardington village for burial in a common grave in the cemetery of St Mary's Church. A monument was later erected, and the scorched Royal Air Force roundel which R101 had flown on its tail is on display, along with a memorial tablet, in the church's nave. On 1 October 1933, the Sunday before the third anniversary of the crash, a memorial to the dead near the crash site was unveiled by the side of Route nationale 1 near Allonne. There is also a memorial marker on the actual crash site."
"Air India Flight 101 Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London that accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of VOR data, one of the receivers being out of service. The crash was almost at the exact spot where Air India Flight 245, a Lockheed 749 Constellation on a charter flight, had crashed in 1950 with the loss of all 48 on board that aircraft. Air India"
"however, the R101, which had not been thoroughly tested after major modifications, crashed on its maiden voyage at Beauvais in France killing 48 of the 54 people aboard. Among the dead were the craft's chief designer and the Secretary of State for Air. The disaster put an end to further British airship development. The Locarno Treaties of 1925 lifted the restrictions on German airship construction, and the Zeppelin company started construction of the ""Graf Zeppelin"" (LZ 127), the largest airship that could be built in the company's existing shed, and intended to stimulate interest in passenger airships. The ""Graf Zeppelin"""
"Air Inter Flight 148 Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled passenger flight from Lyon Satolas Airport to Strasbourg Airport in France. On 20 January 1992, the aircraft operating the flight, an Airbus A320, crashed in the Vosges Mountains, France, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport. 87 of the 96 people on board were killed, while the remaining nine were all injured. The aircraft, an Airbus A320-111, registration F-GGED, serial number 15, first flew on 4 November 1988, and was delivered to Air Inter on 22 December 1988. At the time of the accident the aircraft"
"superior as Nevil Shute Norway implied, R100 represented the best that conventional airship technology in Britain had to offer at the time. R101 suffered in comparison partly because of her many groundbreaking but ultimately problematic innovations, and also because of the weight of her diesel engines. In terms of lifting efficiency, both were inferior to the smaller LZ 127 ""Graf Zeppelin"". After R101 crashed and burned in France, en route to India on 5 October 1930, the Air Ministry ordered R100 grounded. She was deflated and hung up in her shed at Cardington for a year whilst three options were"
"is strictly forbidden for the user to tamper with or modify this device in any way. Furthermore, manufacturers of vehicles destined for public transportation must use non-combustible and non-toxic materials and must make the windscreen out of laminated glass. Beaune coach crash The Beaune coach crash occurred on 31 July 1982 on the French A6 motorway near Beaune, in the Côte-d’Or département of east-central France. It remains the deadliest road traffic collision in France's history. 53 people died, including 46 children (44 on the coach and 2 in a car). Most of the victims were on board a coach that"
"Beaune coach crash The Beaune coach crash occurred on 31 July 1982 on the French A6 motorway near Beaune, in the Côte-d’Or département of east-central France. It remains the deadliest road traffic collision in France's history. 53 people died, including 46 children (44 on the coach and 2 in a car). Most of the victims were on board a coach that caught fire as a result of the collision. The coach passengers were from Crépy-en-Valois in the Oise département of Picardy, northern France. At 8:00 pm on 31 July 1982, two coaches left Crépy-en-Valois, a town located approximately 60 kilometres"
"all on 18 January: Germany was the country most severely hit by the storm, with 13 casualties as of 21 January 2007. Most deaths occurred on the 18 and 19 January, though some victims were only injured at first and later died in hospital. Seven people in the Netherlands were killed as a result of the weather. In France, a driving instructor in Roubaix was killed when an electricity pole fell on top of her car. The student was severely injured. A 30-year-old man died near Abbeville, when a swerving truck crashed into his car. A woman in Lille was"
"back in September 1991. A chronological list of rail accidents since 2002 provided by ""The Daily Telegraph"" suggests this is the deadliest rail disaster since 2008 when at least 70 people were killed in China. On 21 June 2010, a train operated by Chemin de Fer Congo-Ocean (CFCO) derailed at Yanga, between Bilingi and Tchitondi, some from Pointe Noire. Four carriages were derailed. At least 51 people were reported killed at the time, with dozens more injured. The train was en route from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville at the time. Four wagons fell down into a ravine. Casualties and corpses were"
"testing in 1970, and he concluded that such an accident was almost certain to occur again in the future. In spite of these recommendations, on March 3, 1974, less than two years after the near-loss of Flight 96, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed outside Paris, killing all 346 passengers and crew on board in an identical rear cargo door failure. Unlike Flight 96, where the crew still managed to keep enough flight controls to safely return to Detroit, the pilots of Flight 981 completely lost control of the tail surfaces and all hydraulics. Investigators discovered that the upgrades had never"
"an almost identical cargo-door blowout caused Turkish Airlines Flight 981 to crash into a forest near the town of Ermenonville, France, shortly after leaving Paris. All 346 people on board were killed; it was one of the deadliest air crashes of all time. Circumstances of this crash were very similar to the previous accident. The cargo door had not been fully locked, though it appeared so to both cockpit crew and ground personnel. The Turkish aircraft had a different seating configuration that made the effects of decompression much more severe, which caused the aircraft's floor to collapse into the cargo"
"for the project, responsible for calculating the stresses on the frame. Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the crash in northern France of its ""sister"" ship, the R101 (which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry). The later destruction of the ""Hindenburg"" led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport. By the time of the R101 crash, Wallis had moved to the Vickers aircraft factory at the Brooklands motor circuit and aerodrome between Byfleet and Weybridge in Surrey."
"and religious objects from the wreckage. 1950 Tête de l'Obiou C-54 crash The Tête de l'Obiou accident was an airliner crash in France on 13 November 1950. Curtiss-Reid Flying Service had been operating a scheduled service between Paris and Rome since 1945. On 13 November 1950, a Paris-bound Douglas C-54B-1-DC aircraft crashed on the Grande Tête de l'Obiou mountain, south of Grenoble. All 51 passengers and 7 crew were killed. The aircraft was off course. Flight attendant Helen Johnston's body was missing for weeks until it was found in a crevasse on the mountain. The aircraft was carrying fifty-one pilgrims,"
"Bill C-51 is not the same as the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015. Between 2013 and 2014, there had been twelve threat-to-VIP incidents according to the RCMP. On October 20, 2014, Martin Couture-Rouleau deliberately rammed a car into a pair of Canadian Armed Forces soldiers in a shopping centre parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. ""Ahmad"" Couture-Rouleau had been radicalized after converting to Islam. One month before, the spokesman of ISIS, Abu Muhammad Adnani, asked exactly for this kind of vehicular homicide. As such the attack was linked to terrorism by government and police officials including in a statement by Prime Minister Stephen"
"July 2010 R238 traffic collision Eight people were killed on the night of 11 July 2010 when a black Volkswagen Passat collided with a red Toyota Corolla on the Buncrana to Clonmany section of the R238 road on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland. It was the deadliest road accident in the country's history. The road at Glasmullen was not previously thought of as an accident blackspot. Seven of those who died watched the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final shortly before their deaths, while the eighth was returning home after playing bingo. The crash and the funerals, which took"
"19 (Class Z 57000) trains by the end of 2018. On 19 January 1981, a MS 61 train crashed into the rear of another at , killing one person and injuring 71 others. According to French railway magazine ""Historail"" in 2016, the crash was caused by human error relating to a newly-installed signal that came into operation two days prior. The MS 61 trains were single-voltage units that only operated on RATP’s 1,500 kV DC network: they could not serve the (A3) and (A5) branches, because those branches used SNCF’s 25 kV / 50 Hz AC electrification. In 1989, the"
"777-300ER and Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner equipment. Flight 101 would not be used again until 2008, when Air India introduced nonstop service to New York-JFK from Delhi, using the Boeing 777-300ER. Crash au Mont-Blanc, les fantômes du Malabar Princess et du Kangchenjunga. Françoise Rey. Glénant 1991, Le Petit Montagnard, 2013. France Air India Flight 101 Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London that accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot"
"first crossing of the English Channel 20 years earlier. On 9 October 1930, Following the R101 Airship disaster in Beauvais, France, 41 Squadron pilots and ground crew formed a part of the Guard of Honour for the Lying-in-State of the 48 victims in the Palace of Westminster. Amongst the dead were the Secretary of State for Air, Brig. Gen. Lord Christopher Thomson PC CBE DSO, and the Director of Civil Aviation, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker KCB AFC. Thousands filed past to pay their last respects. During the 1930s, displays, sports, competitions, tactical exercises and flying practice were a part"
"981. This was the first major crash of a civil airliner in France since the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2000. The crash site is within the Massif des Trois-Évêchés, east of the settlement Le Vernet and beyond the road to the Col de Mariaud, in an area known as the Ravin du Rosé. The aircraft crashed on the southern side of the Tête du Travers, a minor peak in the lower western slopes of the Tête de l'Estrop. The site is approximately west of Mount Cimet, where Air France Flight"
"Air France Flight 1611 Air France Flight 1611 was a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III en route from the island of Corsica to Nice, France, on 11 September 1968 when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice, killing all 95 on board. According to the official report, the crash was non-survivable. The crash, to date, retains the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Mediterranean Sea. Among the dead was French general René Cogny. The probable cause was attributed to a fire which originated in the rear of the cabin. A radio programme broadcast by BBC Radio"
"some 120 injured in the most catastrophic accident in motor racing history. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) again lifted the replenishment window (just changed the year before) of fuel, oil and water from 30 to 32 laps (just over 430 km), but by the same token, the maximum fuel allowance for all cars was increased to 200 litres for the race. On the track, road improvements continued with the whole back section, from Tertre Rouge around to Maison Blanche resurfaced. A total of 87 racing cars were registered for this event, of which 70 arrived for practice, to qualify"
"1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing The Vitry-Le-François train bombing of 18 June 1961 was a bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a paramilitary organization opposed to the independence of Algeria in the Algerian War, just three days before the Algiers putsch. With 28 fatalities and over 100 injured, it was the deadliest terrorist attack in modern French history until it was surpassed by the November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Nice attack, which killed 137 and 87 people, respectively. The bombing targeted the No. 12 express train, which derailed while traveling at"
"Puisseguin road crash The 2015 Puisseguin road crash occurred on 23 October 2015, at 07:30 local time (05:30 UTC). 43 people, including a three-year-old boy, died when a bus and a lorry collided in Puisseguin, a commune in south-western France. The crash happened at around 07:30 on the morning of Friday, 23 October 2015 at a bend on Departmental Road 17 not far south of Puisseguin. Authorities said they believed the lorry, carrying logs, lost control on a bend and jackknifed into the coach's path. Both vehicles burst into flames as a result of the collision. The cause of the"
"was the first accident involving the Avro 748/HS 748 that resulted in a write-off. A concrete runway was later installed at Lympne. The accident aircraft was Avro 748-101 Series 1 G-ARMV, c/n 1536. The aircraft was manufactured in 1961 and had flown 3,432 hours at the time of the accident. The aircraft was deployed as a scheduled international passenger flight from Beauvais Airport, Oise, France to Lympne Airport, Kent, United Kingdom. This flight was part of Skyways Coach Air's coach-air service, in which passengers were taken by coach from Paris to Beauvais, flown to Lympne and then taken by coach"
"AM, a coach collided into passenger cars near Beaune in dense holiday traffic during rainfall. The collision and subsequent fire killed 53 people, among which 46 were children. After this crash, a regulation was enforced to prohibit the transportation of groups of children during this part of the year. Black Saturday (France) Black Saturday refers, in France, to the day of the year when road traffic is most dense due to the many departures on holiday. (Traffic problems are exacerbated by France's extreme centralisation, with Paris being the hub of the entire national highway network.) This Saturday is usually at"
"1950 Tête de l'Obiou C-54 crash The Tête de l'Obiou accident was an airliner crash in France on 13 November 1950. Curtiss-Reid Flying Service had been operating a scheduled service between Paris and Rome since 1945. On 13 November 1950, a Paris-bound Douglas C-54B-1-DC aircraft crashed on the Grande Tête de l'Obiou mountain, south of Grenoble. All 51 passengers and 7 crew were killed. The aircraft was off course. Flight attendant Helen Johnston's body was missing for weeks until it was found in a crevasse on the mountain. The aircraft was carrying fifty-one pilgrims, all but two of whom were"