Tragedy also marked the past year in U.S.sports,as 22-year-old Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a car crash April 9, just hours after he threw six scoreless innings against the Oakland A's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

A five-month federal investigation of the so-called flash crash suggested a single big trade may have been the cause.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head in sports.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Congress is holding hearings into a crash in February near Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

They also reduce the effect of a crash on the body.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

It was so violent a crash that the whole house shook.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

"It all started in 2000 in Kemerovo region, when my friend and his 8-year-old daughter died in a car crash."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

poet and rock singer Jim Carroll; and DJ AM, who survived a fiery 2008 plane crash with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Experts say the runway at Mangalore airport makes a bad crash inevitable if the landing is not accurate.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

He says Saturday's plane crash has shocked the nation, but that it has not sparked a political crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12