NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the upper reaches of the Mississippi River between the U.S. midwestern states of Illinois and Missouri on ...

Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, is one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history. New Orleans, the Mississippi River city near the Gulf of ...

《卫报》报导，目击者布里格斯（Adam Briggs）在他拍摄的坠机现场影片中表示：「这架直升机当时正在作业那些高压电线，结果撞上电线后爆炸了。机上有一名驾驶和一名工人，直升机爆炸后坠落，撞上驳船，现在还在燃烧。」 ...

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