Unusual Accidents and Deaths

Unusual Accidents and Deaths

unusual accidents—some of these stories have happy endings, but some, unfortunately, have unhappy one

Unhappy Endings 1

Greek playwright Aeschylus

was killed

an eagle

a tortoise

head.

the tortoise’s shell

a rock

bald,

Happy Endings 1

• A German soldier

• World War I plane 

• engine stalled

• fell out of his seat

•  engine started again

• landed back in his own sea

Happy Endings 2

• Bob Hail

• jumped out of an airplane

• parachute failed to open

• backup parachute

•  hit the ground

• got up and walked away

Accident 2

An ostrich

weaving

heavy traffic

Abha.

driver filmed

escaped from a farm

Accident 3

• —Manfredo Settala. 

• killed by

• a meteorite

Accident 4

• Ahmad Ali 's eight-year-old son

•  a drowning accident

•  a friend’s house

• a lifeguard