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Debris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday after one of its engines suffered a catastrophic failure and rained pieces of the engine casing on a neighborhood where it narrowly missed a home.

A car was in the westbound side of the upper level on the bridge when a piece of debris came from underneath a truck and smashed through the windshield, injuring the driver.NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Thankfully no one was hurt as the stone structure came crashing down Monday morning, but the collapse comes just 2 months after a piece of a Manhattan building’s facade collapsed and killed a woman in midtown. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

A facade collapse in Manhattan left a pile of debris on a city sidewalk Monday morning and prompted the closure of a street. The incident took place on West 20th Street and 9th Avenue in Chelsea. Chopper 4 was over the scene that was taped off. It appeared that debris on the sidewalk came from the decorative arch over the…

A facade collapse in Manhattan left a pile of debris on a city sidewalk Monday morning and prompted the closure of a street.

A 67-year-old woman delivering papers in Queens was killed after a piece of falling debris caused by powerful winds struck her in the head on Thursday. Police say Xiang Ji of Westbury was found unconscious and unresponsive on the sidewalk in the area of 41 Road and Main Street in Flushing. She was subsequently transported to New York Presbyterian Hospital/Queens…

A 67-year-old woman walking along a sidewalk in Queens died after being struck in the head by building debris that fell from high winds. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

No one was injured, but the 6-inch by 6-inch piece of debris that fell from the 81st floor of the building shut down 57th Street for a few hours. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

A 67-year-old woman walking along a sidewalk in Queens was left with life-threatening injuries after being struck in the head by falling debris, according to police.

A piece of crumbling facade fell and struck the woman in a freak accident just blocks away from Times Square. The building the debris fell from was cited just six months ago for safety concerns. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

A veteran firefighter is dead and seven other people injured, including his brother, after a powerful propane gas explosion Monday ripped through a facility that serves people with disabilities in Farmington, Maine. The building was reduced to rubble. The blast rocked the area and sent dust high into the sky, according to witnesses. Many of the other victims who were...

Firefighters rescued a teen girl trapped for hours in a home destroyed by mud and debris flows early Tuesday Jan. 9, 2018 in Montecito.

A piece of debris crashed onto a car from an elevated subway track in Queens — less than a month after a beam fell from the tracks and pierced a car windshield, narrowly missing the driver, a local politician said.

Elected officials are calling for funding for the subways a day after a metal plate fell from an elevated train track, hitting a moving car. Andrew Siff reports.

A suspended scaffold came loose and hit the facade of a Midtown residential high-rise under construction Monday, spewing glass and other debris on the sidewalk below, authorities say.

A window washer platform or scaffolding came loose and hit a Midtown building’s facade, sending glass and debris onto the street, officials say. Checkey Beckford reports.

Recovery crews were slowly making progress digging away masses of mud, boulders and toppled trees in a California community that was ravaged by deadly mudslides, but officials said they’ve removed enough debris from creek canals to prevent another potential disaster when the next rainstorm hits.

Authorities now say 17 people have died in Southern California mudslides and another 13 are missing.

Roberto Clemente Park, which has been closed more than two years due to a toxic dumping scandal, will reopen on Monday, officials said.