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- More than 800 people were dead or missing after an Estonian ferry capsized and sank in a stormy Baltic Sea just before 2 A.M. today in one of history's worst ferry disasters. Rescuers pulled 126 survivors from the raging waters.
www.nytimes.com › 1994/09/29 › world
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The pilot of OH-HVG stated that landing on the ferries was the most difficult part of the whole rescue operation; despite that, this single helicopter rescued 44 people, more than all the ferries. MS Isabella saved 16 survivors with its rescue slide.
Oct 4, 2020 · Only 138 people were rescued, one of whom died in hospital. Most of the 852 who perished drowned, although a third of the 300-odd who reached the outer decks died of hypothermia. Only 93 bodies...
Sep 29, 2020 · People from 17 countries lost their lives in the disaster. Of the 852 people killed, 501 were Swedish and 285 were Estonian. A crew member who survived the accident told the BBC at the time that...
Oct 11, 2020 · STOCKHOLM — Startling new pictures shot 80 meters under the Baltic Sea have reawakened tensions over a 26-year-old question: Why did the passenger ferry Estonia sink? The loss of the ship in a September storm in 1994 remains the Baltic’s worst peacetime disaster with 852 lives lost, most of them Swedish.
Jan 23, 2023 · A new investigation into the sinking of ferry Estonia that claimed 852 lives in 1994 revealed flaws in its bow visor construction missed during its certification, officials said on Monday.
