“Crash” on The Daily Caller

SYDNEY – A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers. (more)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw’s biggest public square Saturday, joining together for a memorial and funeral Mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek is dedicating his fight against Cristobal Arreola this month to those killed in the plane crash in Russia. (more)

The crash of a NATO aircraft in volatile southern Afghanistan killed three U.S. service members and a civilian contractor, the Western military said Friday. (more)

WHISTLER, British Columbia — The downhill portion of the women’s super combined Thursday morning might have looked a lot like Wednesday’s women’s downhill, with Lindsey Vonn in first place and her teammate Julia Mancuso not far behind in third. But in the slalom portion, everything turned around. Vonn ran into a gate and crashed, while her main rival, Maria Riesch of Germany, skied a dominating run and grabbed the gold medal. (more)

Train workers in southern Belgium have gone on strike a day after 18 people were killed in a crash between two commuter trains. (more)

Five people were killed today in a plane crash at Monmouth Executive Airport in Wall Township when a Cessna 337 Skymaster broke apart near the runway during a low pass and spun out of control before crashing nose first, officials said. (more)

The Grammy Awards go down in Los Angeles this Sunday, January 31, but the biggest musical event of the next few days could actually come the day after. That’s when Quincy Jones will be recording a new version of “We Are the World” that will be released as a charity single to benefit earthquake survivors in Haiti. (more)

MANLIUS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Hope College says a student from Kenya was piloting a small plane when it crashed in southwest Michigan, killing himself and a student from Illinois. (more)

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Police say at least three men have died in a small plane crash in the Cleveland area. (more)

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Authorities say four people were aboard a small plane that crashed into the sea after taking off from the Bahamas en route to Florida. (more)

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane registered in Idaho and a passenger were killed in a crash in eastern Oregon. (more)

SEATTLE (AP) — A fugitive facing an attempted murder charge in the United Kingdom has been arrested in Washington after his car crashed into a state trooper’s. (more)

OXFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials say a single-engine plane has crashed near the Waterbury-Oxford Airport, killing the pilot and leaving hundreds of residents without power. (more)

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian appeals court has ruled two American executive jet pilots should face negligence charges for a 2006 midair collision that killed 154 people. (more)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Rwandan government-commissioned inquiry has concluded that soldiers shot down the president’s plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide. (more)

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says a helicopter carrying two research biologists and a pilot has crashed in northern Idaho. (more)

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Lonnie Acton loved playing video games. Kenny Fry, at age 61, liked to flirt. Alonso Ruffin would sometimes preach to his caretakers. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for running down two bicyclists in a road rage assault. (more)

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators scoured the site of a fatal helicopter crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains Wednesday, trying to determine whether it might have been caused by a lack of markings on a high-voltage power line spanning the river canyon. (more)