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It's not clear how the first bird became wedged inside.
The baby was unusually large, and became wedged in her pelvis.
Moments before the adult giraffe became wedged, he was observed by his caretakers acting normal.
Authorities now believe it is likely Cerruti fell through her attic floor and became wedged in the walls.
The cone was blown underneath the aircraft where it became wedged during boarding, according to a British Airways spokeswoman.
Union County Sheriff Eddie Cathey said the car was swept up in the floodwaters and became wedged between trees, nose down.
Normand says the ride was coming to a stop when Perez's foot became wedged between the ride and the concrete platform.
Apparently, the added weight of passengers and luggage had caused the plane to sink onto the traffic cone, and it became wedged near the engine.
But at the center of the photo, Meadow's foot is bent in the opposite direction after it became wedged between her mother's leg and the slide.
Minutes later, when Zuberi became wedged, the care team responded immediately "with the Veterinary Team and large-mammal animal care specialists on the scene" as well.
A Michigan mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after authorities say she drank alcohol one night in December and then slept in the same bed as her baby, who suffocated when he became "wedged" between the bed and the wall, PEOPLE confirms.
Trees are so scarred from repeated sled impacts that they have lost their bark on one side.Killick, p. 81 In 1998, racer Brenda Mackey was jolted around so much by the rough trail that her sled became wedged between two trees, forcing her to cut one down to continue.Balzar, p. 69.
Shire of South Barwon - a brief history. Judy Laging. Accessed at the Geelong Heritage Centre In 1891, the Joseph H. Scammell sailing ship struck the reef near Point Danger in Torquay and subsequently became wedged on the reef and as a result the ship broke up in the heavy seas.
The Swedish cook and three Belgian sailors were dismissed, and Belgica departed for the Antarctic somewhat undermanned. Sailor Carl Wiencke was lost overboard en route to Antarctica, Wiencke Island being named in his honour. Belgica crossed the Antarctic Circle on 15 February 1898. On 3 March, Belgica became wedged in the pack ice.
Eight Stones Lions was surveyed in April 1993 and found to need treatment. In 2014, a truck driver, supposedly following his GPS, mistook the pedestrian path for a road and attempted to drive across the two Lion Bridges. The truck became wedged into the second bridge, and parts of the bridges were damaged, but the lions were not harmed.
The basement rocks are often highly metamorphosed and complex. They may consist of many different types of rock – volcanic, intrusive igneous and metamorphic. They may also contain fragments of oceanic crust that became wedged between plates when a terrane was accreted to the edge of the continent. Any of this material may be folded, refolded and metamorphosed.
After the two brothers pleaded with Narada, he consented that they could be liberated if Krishna touched them. Krishna uprooted tree Many years later, when Krishna was in his infancy, his mother Yashoda had tied him to a mortar in order to prevent him from eating dirt. Krishna dragged the mortar along the ground until it became wedged between two trees.
Cecilia sailed on 5 December 1803 for Bengal, under the command of Captain Carrol. On 9 January 1804 she was wrecked at Madeira in a gale, and her third and fourth officers drowned. She dragged her anchors and became wedged between two rocks. When her main mast over on the landward side passengers and crew used it as a bridge.
Unknowingly to the crew, a foreign object became wedged between the right elevator and horizontal stabilizer, blown there by backwash from the aircraft preceding it on the taxiway. The problem was not detected, and the aircraft crashed upon takeoff with the loss of all 11 on board. Following this incident, the FAA instituted new minimums between aircraft in line-up for take-off.
The harder they struggled the tighter they became wedged. They could remain in this position for many hours until they were pushed out from below or pulled out with a rope. If their struggling caused a fall of soot they would suffocate. Dead or alive the boy had to be removed and this would be done by removing bricks from the side of the chimney.
The yacht became wedged on dangerous rocks requiring the rescue of 37 people by helicopter. The incident was Australia's largest helicopter rescue operation from a vessel. At least two people have died from irukandji jellyfish stings while snorkeling off Hook Island. Some of the oldest archaeological sites ever found in Eastern Australia are the caves and midden of the Ngaro People on Hook Island.
It deteriorated over time, and in 1841 was closed to vehicular traffic (but remained open for foot traffic). In 1846, a steamship attempting to go up the Anacostia became wedged in the draw span. Sparks from the ship's funnel ignited the bridge, and it burned to the water line. For many years thereafter, the pilings of the old bridge could be seen when the water level in the river was low.
He drove mainly Panhard & Levassor cars. On one occasion, he crashed into a St Bernard dog which became wedged between the right wheel and the suspension and jammed the steering, though he still won the race. He retired after an unsuccessful season in 1903 and worked as manager of Adolphe Clément's factory complex at Levallois-Perret. In 1901, Charron was one of the three founders of an automobile manufacturer, Charron, Girardot et Voigt (CGV).
Wollaton Hall in Nottingham was used as Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne's residence. Several accidents occurred during the production of the film. While filming at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, a tractor-trailer crashed into the main entrance, though no one was injured. A stuntman parachutist later crashed through the roof of a home in Cairngorm Gliding Club, Feshiebridge in Scotland, and became wedged there after a failed landing during a skydiving stunt; he was not seriously injured.
Her port of registry was Hull. In 1946, Empire Fathom was sold to B W Steamship, Tug & Lighter Company, Craggs & Jenkins Ltd, Hull, and renamed Fosdyke Trader. Later that year, she was sold to the Great Yarmouth Shipping Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. On 1 November 1952, Fosdyke Trader broke from her moorings in the River Welland at Fosdyke, Lincolnshire and became wedged under the Fosdyke Bridge, which carries the A17 road over the river.
At least ten served with the Korean National Railroad, where they were classified 파시1 (Pasi1). On 1 February 1954, 파시1-7 was pulling a 16-car passenger train southbound at Osan when it was destroyed in an accident. Running tender-ahead with no lights, it hit a South Korean Army lorry, which became wedged beneath the tender, derailing the locomotive and turning it around. The locomotive and three passenger cars were destroyed, and 57 people were killed.
In the second half, the Saints eased off slightly while Northampton's play improved. Despite this, Meston added his second goal soon after the restart when his shot went between the legs of the hapless goalkeeper. Brown's fifth goal was hit with such force that the ball became wedged between the railings behind the goal, causing a delay before the match could restart. Brown's sixth goal came soon afterwards with a "dinking oblique kick" to confuse Cook, bringing the total to nine.
When the air pressure was turned on to start the diesel engine, nothing happened because the compressed air tank was empty. The crew hurriedly tried to substitute a new tank, but there was not enough time before the tug had impacted the bridge. Brown became wedged under the bridge at a 45-degree angle, and it was thought the vessel might sink. The Portland fireboat Mike Laudencklos, pumped out thousands of gallons of water waiting for other help to arrive.
Pressure vessel engineer Matt Austin has proposed an additional hypothesis to explain the scale of the damage to Flight 243. This explanation postulates that initially the fuselage failed as intended and opened a ten-inch square vent. As the cabin air escaped at over 700 mph, flight attendant Lansing became wedged in the vent instead of being immediately thrown clear of the aircraft. The blockage would have immediately created a pressure spike in the escaping air, producing a fluid hammer (or "water hammer") effect, which tore the jet apart.
It is a popular place for adventure-seekers and those new caving, since it provides an easy round trip and is it difficult to get lost. However there are occasional incidents when the inept, over-enthusiastic or inexperienced become stuck. There was, for example, a small drama reported on the front page of the Western Morning Herald as well as in the Daily Telegraph where a Coldstream Guards instructor became wedged by his hips, face down, and had to be chipped free. The cave is locked to protect the bats.
In all, four crewmen were wounded, three of the four engines were disabled, and fuel lines ruptured in the fuselage. In addition, one of the aircraft's bombs again failed to release. Immediately after bomb release, shrapnel from a final burst killed the aircraft commander and wounded Vance, nearly severing his right foot, which became wedged in cockpit framework behind the copilot's seat. In the chaos that followed, comments on the interphone led Vance to believe that the crew's radio operator, wounded in the legs, was too seriously injured to be evacuated.
On April 8, 1949 in San Marino, California, three-year-old Kathy Fiscus, while playing in a field with three other children, fell down an abandoned well, only fourteen inches wide, and became wedged ninety-seven feet below the ground. Arriving on the scene, Wiener came upon hundreds of other newspeople, photographers, and television crews. Believing there was little else at the scene that could be photographed, Wiener left the field and walked to the Fiscus home. There in the rear yard, using his 4x5 Speed Graphic, he photographed the child's empty swing.
Early on October 29, Tropical Storm Tanya was upgraded to a hurricane, the eleventh of the 1995 season, as it turned northward in response to the nearby low. Later on October 29, while slowly tracking north, Tanya leveled off as a low-end Category 1 hurricane. By the next morning, a cold front to the west forced Tanya to accelerate in a more easterly track . It remained fairly well organized with a distinct eye as it became wedged in a narrow zone of warm air between the cold front to the west and the upper-level low to the northeast.
But the tug master lacked experience of the winding Avon and lost control of Demerara, which became wedged against both banks. When the tide went out the ship was left bridging the river, and suffered structural distortion from the 1,200 tons of ballast in her engine room. RMSP rejected the damaged ship, which was effectively a "constructive total loss" – a concept then unknown in marine insurance. RMSP was then left with one ship missing from the quintet it needed for its new service, and an engine in Greenock with no ship into which to put it.
During a show at Liverpool in 1861, Maccomo's hand became wedged in the mouth of a Bengal tigress, which only became free five minutes later when one of the keepers pressed a hot iron bar against her teeth.Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, 10 April 1861 In 1862, a lion bit Maccamo's hand during a performance near Norwich Victoria railway station, dragging him across the floor and resulting in him losing part of a finger. Photograph of blind children and the now stuffed Wallace the Lion, which attacked Maccomo in 1869. In 1869, Maccomo was attacked by a lion named Wallace while performing at Sunderland.
New Wexford as seen along Ontario Highway 2 looking east. New Wexford's most infamous landmark was formerly an old railway overpass across Ontario Highway 2 with low clearance that frequently caused problems for large transports commuting from Kingston to Montreal, and was the cause of many accidents. Locally, the overpass was referred to as "The Subway", and was built to connect the CPR tracks to Prescott's coal yards, west of the village. Before Highway 401 was built, Ontario Highway 2 was the main corridor between Kingston and Montreal, and despite clear marking of the clearance, many truck drivers sheared off their roofs, or became wedged under the overpass causing traffic congestion.
On 29 September 1940, during the 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision, two Avro Ansons became wedged together after colliding, one on top of the other. Both of the upper aircraft's engines had been knocked out in the collision but those of the one below continued to turn at full power. The pilot of the lower Anson was injured and bailed out, but the pilot of the upper Anson, Leonard Graham Fuller, found that he was able to control the piggybacking pair of aircraft with his ailerons and flaps. He managed to travel 8 kilometres (5 mi) after the collision before making a successful emergency belly landing in a large paddock 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia.
The mail train crashed into the GWR goods train, the engine of the LMS train clipping the edges of the two front-most goods vans of the GWR Train before crashing into the tender, which at that point was slightly askew of the main line as it was being shunted clear. The LMS engine crashed into the right-hand side of the GWR tender and derailed to the right, ploughing into two empty wagons of the up LMS train before it overturned onto its right side against the up slope near the bridge. The GWR tender was flung onto its left side against the north side of the bridge, while the GWR engine became wedged against the abutment, causing the first six vehicles (the parcel van, the other van, the front composite, the two 3rd class carriages and the rear composite) to become wedged under the bridge. Whilst the engine of the mail train was derailed and tossed clear, the tender was derailed but remained on the track.

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