WORLD NEWS

Someone captured on camera the moment that a helicopter crashed into the water near a super-yacht in a Norwegian harbour. Three British citizens on-board were injured. The United Kingdom Foreign Office said that the crash occurred after a bad landing on the yacht. People claimed that the accident happened when a piece of waterproof cloth got stuck in the helicopter’s rotors. British safety investigators are helping their Norwegian colleagues.

At Burbank, California, passengers were disembarking from a Southwest plane when something unexpected happened; a fight broke out between two men. Someone recorded the event with a mobile phone as onlookers and crew members tried to stop the fight. After the fight, police arrested one of the men. Southwest Airlines says that its flight crews have training on how to prevent and deal with conflict. The airline did not say what caused the argument.

A teenager died and 22 people were injured after a speeding car struck pedestrians in New York. Eye-witnesses said that the car drove the wrong way into Times Square, mounted the pavement, and started ‘mowing down people’. The driver then jumped out and started running, but people tackled him down. The arrested driver of the car was 26-year-old US citizen Richard Rojas who served in the US army and he has previous convictions for drunk driving. Officials believe that it is not an act of terror.

A man was crossing the street in eastern China when two cars entered the crossroads from different sides. They swerved to avoid a crash but bumped into each other instead, as they sped towards the unsuspecting pedestrian. Luckily, he was able to react quickly and moved quickly out of harm’s way, escaping death. While both vehicles had heavy damage, no one was injured