davieG Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 29 minutes ago, jonthefox said: not so much disasters,but i remember vividly watching the news about murders and then the police suspecting the Yorkshire ripper. Hmm i was interviewed by the police on this as i had a green estate car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basingstoke Fox Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Princess Dianna - Perhaps not a "disaster" but huge news and the earliest major story of its kind I remember. 9/11 Bam earthquake (Iran) in 2003. 7/7 London Tsunami in Japan - 2011 I think. Virginia High School Norway killings Tunisia shootings Chapecoense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthefox Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Just now, davieG said: Hmm i was interviewed by the police on this as i had a green estate car. Really?. I've just been watching a YouTube video about Bruce Jones ( Les Battersby) who discovered a victim. He was told by the police that whoever finds the body is normally the murderer. Poor sod was only putting a shed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costock_Fox Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 That 4-3 at Molineaux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
separator Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Herald Of Free Enterprise, at school one of my mates dad was on it (he survived) The space shuttle blowing up on the same day my great grandmother died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am an Ostrich Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Frank Mclintock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Things that spring to mind, Lockerbie, James Bulger, Fred West, Harold Shipman, Diana, Columbia shuttle disaster, 9/11. Bulger, West and Shipman and Diana obviously not disasters but massive news nonetheless that have stayed in my mind. I was only a kid but I still remember that image of the crumpled cockpit of the lockerbie plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 9/11 was the first I can say I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Remember most all those mentioned on here and was on duty at the Mercury the day the plane crashed at Kegworth. Aberfan made the greatest impression - so many kiddies killed and so many families suffering in such a small community. The images and the needlessness of it still haunt me whenever the subject is mentioned. Perhaps the saddest day of my life apart from death of my grandaughter's mum at the time of her birth.Can anything compare with a new mum on life support while their beautiful baby lay in her arms unable to have even a kiss or a hug. The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster remained in my mind too because it was outside a port I used regularly when I was coaching in Holland and I particularly remember the sinking of the Sir Galahad in the Falklands because I'd interviewed a young recruit and his proud parents, then had to go back to interview them again when the lad was reported killed. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/chilling-account-sir-galahad-attack-2015148 Reference to the loss of Flight587 over New York in 2001 gets me too. One of my dearest friends - a United Airlines employee - was due to be on the flight but her connection out of Germany was delayed and she agreed with her husband to catch a flight the following day instead. Her husband however was one of the 260-odd passengers and ground victims who lost their lives when the plane hit the ground. I played and replayed a reconstructive video of what happened and the human error and inadequate training that lead to the disaster. Again, it as all so unnecessary. Basically over-aggressive rudder control after the plane hit the turbulence made by an earlier departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 The Trump thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted 5 March 2017 Share Posted 5 March 2017 Well this is all a bit depressing! The ones that stand out I suppose: 9/11 7/7 Hillsborough Dunblaine Hungerford Lockerbie Chernobyl Brighton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 when martin ran jamie over on eastenders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 The mullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 10 hours ago, Vacamion said: Thinking back, a lot of the 1980s disasters which stick in the mind were health and safety issues or arose from defective systems or errors: Bhopal Herald of Free Enterprise Piper Alpha Kings Cross fire Heysel/Hillsborough/Bradford I find it odd that nobody ever remembers Ibrox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 The Challenger explosion. Concorde doing much the same. Several IRA attacks, Manchester, Brighton, Hyde Park and couple of bomb scares in Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacamion Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 27 minutes ago, Buce said: I find it odd that nobody ever remembers Ibrox. Before my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beliall Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 The first that's comes to my mind when I'm asked this kind of question, is the 1987 Hurricane, Remember it well. South coast was ****ed up for ages after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 42 minutes ago, Vacamion said: Before my time. Sure, but I meant generally. Whenever football disasters are mentioned it's usually overlooked. I wonder how many realise that there were in fact two Ibrox disasters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 9/11, came home from school to watch ma cartoons and was upset my Dad was hogging the TV. I have family in NY and NJ and they know a lot of people that died which is sad. Simpsons moving to Channel 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsthejoeker Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 9/11 was the first I remembered. Closely followed by the London bombings, we had "News Hour" at school where we went through the Newsround website so we watched it unfold from a power outage to something serious enough for the teacher to let us play for the last half an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 I don't remember it (obviously) but I was born just as the radiation cloud from Chernobyl arrived over here. I always thought that explained a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 13 minutes ago, Finnegan said: I don't remember it (obviously) but I was born just as the radiation cloud from Chernobyl arrived over here. I always thought that explained a lot. Kept you thin though eh? Every cloud an all that...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiffToff88 Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 I remember 9/11 very well, i was on my way to Gatwick Airport when we heard the news on the radio. not ideal circumstances for hearing news like that, especially for a 13 year old looking forward to a nice holiday!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingcarr21 Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 When i didnt pull out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 6 March 2017 Share Posted 6 March 2017 I remember the James Bulger murder very well and the debate about 'video nasties'. I'm not sure I can remember another event that had that affect on people. Even now any mention of it just depresses me unbelievably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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