The pair had decided they would climb onto the top of a truck's roof to create a better view, Unfortunately they did not see a light aircraft that was coming into land and did not react in time. The plane clipped the heads of the young woman and they were decapitated.
What they did not realise is that the truck was close to the aircraft and the girls were struck by a wing and killed.
A spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office said that authorities were investigating the case.
Nitzia Mendoza Corral (left), 18, and Clarissa Morquecho Miranda (right), 17, died when a plane's wing struck their heads as they attempted a selfie on an airstrip in Chihuahua, Mexico..
They had been at a horse race on Saturday 25th March 2017 afternoon time before heading to the airstrip. Nitzia had been studying law and Clarissa was in her last year of high school, Mexican media reported. Some witnesses had asked the teens to get down from the vehicle because it was dangerous, they said, but the girls reportedly ignored the warnings.
Nitzia Mendoza Corral (left), 18, and Clarissa Morquecho Miranda (right), 17,
There was no comment from the girls' families.
The identity of the pilot was not released, and it was not clear how the plane came to be so close to a vehicle on landing. There were no reports of bad weather at the time of the accident that could have affected visibility.
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Darren Hickey died after a fishcake burned the back of his throat and the swelling asphixiated him (Picture: SWNS) On April 4th 2019, Darren Hickey, 51 was leaving Ridgmont House, the wedding venue he managed in Chorley, Lancashire, when one of the chefs asked him to try a fish cake.
A wedding planner died just 12 hours after sampling food at a venue when his throat was burned so badly he stopped breathing. Darren Hickey’s voice box swelled up after eating the food until he could no longer breath or swallow because of the pain and swelling. He had been given the fishcake by a chef just as he was leaving to go to a charity meeting at lunchtime on April 4. Darren, 51, realised something was wrong as the pain intensified and went to the Urgent Care Ward at Chorley Hospital but was sent home with paracetamol.
He went back to his home in Bolton to rest but the swelling became worse and his partner Neil Parkinson (R) heard him choking at 9pm.
Neil said: ‘He shouted so I ran upstairs. He was stood up choking and coughing so I banged his back but then he slid forward onto the floor.’ Darren was taken to hospital but the damage was so far down his throat it could not be seen without specialist equipment and he died just after midnight. Acting senior coroner Alan Walsh said: ‘He was enormously positive and enormously caring and gave to charity – he was a very generous, caring and compassionate man. ‘He was a remarkably strong and resilient man to overcome that stroke.’A pathologist said the case was very rare and is normally associated with people killed in house fires who inhale smoke, burning the airways. Dr Patrick Waugh said: ‘The patient can appear well, they will be talking to you, but then the swelling starts.’
Ridgmont House, Chorley Old Road, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire ,BL6 6RF
01204 696246 - Click on image above to go to the Ridgmont House website.
The fish cake burned the back of his throat causing his voice box to swell, which meant he was soon unable to breathe. He was taken to hospital but given paracetamol and told to return if the pain got worse. Mr Hickey died in hospital the next day. Dr Patrick Waugh, the pathologist who performed Mr Hickey's post-mortem, told Bolton Corner's Court the case was very rare.
An ambulance was called, but was delayed for around five minutes due a problem with the postcode of the building. Paramedics treated Mr Hickey at the scene and rushed him to the Royal Bolton Hospital but he was pronounced dead in the early hours of April 5. The inquest heard the delay in the ambulance was unlikely to have contributed to Mr Hickey's death. The horrific incident happened seven years after he suffered a massive stroke which left him in hospital for 18 months, and some difficulty walking and speaking. Despite this setback, Mr Hickey channelled much of his energy into charity work was handed the Inspirational Person of Courage Award by the Stroke Association.
"He was enormously positive and enormously caring and gave to charity - he was a very generous, caring and compassionate man," Mr Walsh said.
"He was a remarkably strong and resilient man to overcome that stroke."
The coroner went on to say that the case had raised questions about the care at Chorley Hospital's Urgent Care ward, which is run by GTD Healthcare as an extra unit to take pressure away from the Accident and Emergency Department.
Mr Hickey had been seen by a practitioner in this ward who also contacted a specialist from the Ear, Nose and Throat unit at Preston Hospital.
However, because of a number of unusual circumstances surrounding the case, including the lack of burns to Mr Hickey's mouth and tongue, they were unable to find the damage, which occurred far enough down his throat that it could not be seen without specialist equipment.
Samuel Eaton, head of services for GTD in the region, and Matthew Gaunt, from NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group, assured the coroner that a full review into the incident would be carried out.
Recording a verdict of accidental death, Mr Walsh said: "I believe there are enormous lessons to be learned.
"This was caused by eating a fishcake, very small and very hot but with catastrophic consequences. I find this an immense tragedy."
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Wrong place wrong time: Tape measure falls 50 floors, kills worker at New Jersey construction site
Wrong place wrong time: Tape measure falls 50 floors, kills worker at New Jersey construction site.
Anyone who has ever glanced up into the clouds, marveling at a rising tower of glass and steel, has likely had a fleeting fear that some bit of debris might come tumbling down and spell his doom. However, such accidents are rare.
The company working at the site, AJD Construction, told investigators that its policy was that all people on the property wear helmets, and that it was not clear why Mr. Anderson did not have one on.
A tower rising 50 stories. A one-pound tape measure attached to the waist of a construction worker. An unsuspecting man stepping from a vehicle at the foot of the building.
The three elements converged on Monday morning in a freakish accident, when a 58-year-old man died in Jersey City after being struck in the head by the tape measure after it fell some 400 feet.
The accident led to the suspension of work on one of the largest development projects in the city.
Looming above the Grove Street PATH station, the building at 70 Christopher Columbus Drive is near completion, and the man who died, Gary Anderson, had arrived at Marin Boulevard and Christopher Columbus Drive shortly before 9 a.m. to make a delivery of wallboard.
Mr. Anderson had just parked his truck and was not wearing a safety helmet when he stepped from the vehicle, said Carly Baldwin, a spokeswoman for the Jersey City Department of Public Safety.
High above him, a tape measure had slipped off the belt of a construction worker at the top of the tower.
As it plummeted, the tape measure struck a piece of metal equipment and shot toward Mr. Anderson.
It struck him in the head, knocking him unconscious. He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where he died shortly before 10 a.m.
By Monday afternoon, the commotion of the morning was over. A couple of blocks away, construction workers on Warren Street, part of a different project, were wrapping up their day. One man, Edwin González, 50, had heard what happened and talked about the perils of high-altitude construction work.
“A tape measure is like a gun at a construction site,” Mr. González said. “Like a police officer, you don’t pull it out unless you’re going to use it.”
70 Christopher Columbus Drive, a 50-story apartment building in Jersey City..
The Lobby - 70 Christopher Columbus Drive, a 50-story apartment building in Jersey City
70 Columbus Dr
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50, 60, 70, 80,90 Colombus - The project, which includes three residential towers and a hotel, has been billed as an important milestone in Jersey City's revitalization. It is being overseen by Ironstate Development. The company did not return calls seeking comment.
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Tragedy: Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, died while posing for photographs in her wedding gown. She drowned after her dress got wet and dragged her into a river near a 'violently' rushing waterfall in Canada
Ms Pantazopoulos slipped and fell into the Ouareau River near Dorwin Falls, north of Montreal, on Friday afternoon 24th August 2012. Her body was found about two and a half hours later. The newly-wed yelled 'I'm slipping, I'm slipping, I'm slipping,' before falling off the rock she was perched on for her wedding pictures, according to CBC.
Horror: Maria Pantazopoulos' wedding dress and shoes remain on the rocks after she was dragged into a river to her death while posing for pictures
Bride Killed in Trash the Dress -TRAGEDY
Bride Killed in Trash the Dress -TRAGEDY
Rescue: Search teams scour the river in an attempt to save Ms Pantazopoulos
Friends said she had been taking part in an increasingly popular ritual called 'Trash the Dress', in which brides pose for pictures while playfully destroying their wedding gowns. The 30-year-old real estate agent had commissioned the shoot following her June 9 wedding and instructed the photographer, Louis Pagakis, to snap away while she was in the Ouareau River.'At one point, she told him, "I want you to take some photos of me floating in the water",' the photographer's wife, Anouk Benzacar, said. But within moments of climbing in she realised that the weight of the soaked wedding dress was pulling her under. 'I can't anymore, it's too heavy,' she cried before letting go of the photographer and slipping under to her death,
'She was screaming and scratching and trying to stay above water,' Benzacar said. '[Louis] tried to swim with her, but she was pulling him down. She was too heavy. He couldn't breathe anymore.' The newlywed was dragged into the river, which is near Dorwin Falls, north of Montreal, and her body was found by a scuba diver two hours later. Her bridal gown and high-heeled wedding shoes were later pictured lying on rocks along the river. Pagakis told CTV Montreal that he did everything he could to save her.
Distraught: Photographer Louis Pagakis said that he did everything he could to save Ms Pantazopoulos
Dorwin Falls Park
'She had her wedding dress on and she said, "take some pictures of me while I swim a little bit in the lake,"' he said. 'She went in and her dress got heavy, I tried everything I could to save her.' The soaked dress would have weighed at least 100 pounds, provincial policeman Jean-Michel Masse said. 'It was like an anvil,' he added to the QMI news agency.
Ouareau River at Fisk Mill park - The Fisk Mill family park is located in the tourist region of Lanaudière, just 60 km from Montreal on the North Shore and within 5 km of Joliette.
In a statement, her family said the bride had trusted she would be safe, and called for stricter safety measures.'One thing we are certain about is that our Maria would have never put her life at risk,' the statement said. 'Her love for life, for her husband and for her family would never allow it.'She trusted Mr. Louis Pagakis' recommendation for the location and felt safe enough to attend the photo shoot alone with the photographers. 'The family asks the municipal council of Rawdon to work on putting in place stronger security measures to avoid any future tragedies.' Quebec provincial police spokesman Sgt. Ronald McInnis described the site as being elevated and rocky, with water 'violently' rushing below.
A photo shoot turned to tragedy: A scuba diver found her body around 30 meters from her original posing place.
She was doing the photo shoot in about six inches or one foot of water when part of her wedding dress got soaked and became extremely heavy,' Mr McInnis told MailOnline. 'She started slipping and falling down when the photographer grabbed her but she was too heavy that he couldn't pull her from the edge.' Leeza Pousoulidis told the Montral Gazette her friend wanted 'Trash the Dress' photographs. 'She’s a really fun girl, and she just didn’t want her wedding dress sitting in a box in the closet,' she said. 'She said "I want to have fun with my wedding dress. I want to have great pictures and memories of me in my wedding dress."' Mr McInnis said Ms Pantazopoulos, from Laval, a small Island north of Montreal, was found 100 feet from where she fell by a private diver who knows the river and volunteered to help with the search.
A tragic end - Pantazopoulos, a real estate agent, had just bought a home with her new husband, Billy
The diver pulled the young woman’s body from an area of the river which was 20 feet deep.'She had sunk to the bottom,' Mr McInnis said. Two witnesses, the photographer and an assistant, were hospitalised for extreme shock. Mr McInnis said the bride's husband was not present for the photo-shoot and neither were any family members. However, her cousins and her brother went to the site when they heard that she had died. 'It's horrible,' Mr McInnis said. 'This is the first time I've heard of a story like that. I told my partner, this is a story that is going to go all around the world.'
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Brian Depledge
Father of two Brian Depledge, 38, suffocated after becoming trapped in a clothes horse similar to the one pictured.
A father died when he became trapped by a clothes horse as he hung his washing out to dry. Brian Depledge, 38, was asphyxiated after tripping and falling backwards into the plastic drying rack, trapping his neck between its rungs, an inquest heard yesterday. A shocked coroner said Mr Depledge had stood a greater chance of being killed by ‘lightning or a meteorite’.
The inquest in Bradford was told how the father-of-two fell into the clothes horse after tripping over a stool, and his neck and chest became wedged in its rungs as it collapsed. He struggled to free himself but created a ‘cat’s cradle effect’ that only made the compression worse, the hearing heard. The coroner, Professor Paul Marks, said: ‘I have never come across a case like this. Brian’s was an untimely death caused by the most bizarre set of circumstances – probably rarer than being struck by lightning or a meteorite.’
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Detective Inspector Mark Long said it appeared Mr Depledge had tried to untangle himself by putting his right arm through one of the airer’s segments following the accident in February. But by pushing down on the bars it tightened the grip ‘like a concertina’, he added. And as clothes on top of the airer were still wet, he explained, their weight would have put even more pressure on his neck. Asked how Mr Depledge could have fallen into the drier, he suggested that it was possible he had tripped over a stool in his living room, which was found at his feet.
Dr Philip Batman, a consultant pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination, said: ‘Mr Depledge was found in his living room with the clothes horse on top of him and blood on his face. He appeared to have fallen and got stuck between the rungs of the clothes horse. The clothes horse gave way, but Brian’s struggles to release himself would have resulted in more suffocation. ‘Deep indentations were found on his chest on the right hand side, along with an indentation on the right side of his neck. ‘His lungs were congested with excess fluid, which is consistent with asphyxiation as a cause of death.’ Mr Depledge leaves behind an 18-year-old daughter, Shawni, and an 11-year-old son, Ryan. His daughter said: ‘He was a lovely person, very easy-going. He was meant to be giving me away at my wedding in April, so it was hard to get through the day without him. I still know he was there for me on the day.’
Other family members added that Ryan is finding it hard to come to terms with his father’s death. The youngster’s grandmother, June Evans, said: ‘I don’t think it’s really sunk in with him. He keeps asking “When can I see my dad? I want to see my dad”. ‘I just tell him, your dad is here with you in your heart and he always will be.’ Mr Depledge was unemployed and estranged from the mother of his two children. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.