15 pictures taken a moment before the tragedy

What photographs evoke the most emotions and impressions in a person? We have all seen pictures with the consequences of terrible tragedies, but there is something especially sinister and frightening in the shots taken on the eve of the disaster. Smiling families or groups of researchers embarking on bold experiments. Sometimes it’s even impossible to believe that something terrible and irreversible happened a few moments later.

One English classic claimed that people are masters of their own destiny. Today's pictures show that, alas, this is not always the case.

Photographer Robert Landsburg captured a wall of ash during the eruption of St. Helena. Robert died, and covered the film with his body.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger on the way to board the ship. After 73 seconds in flight, the shuttle exploded, all crew members died.

This photo captures Nurse Neca's nurse during an Ebola virus outbreak in 1976. Her dedication led the girl herself to become infected with a deadly virus and died shortly after this shoot.

Terrorist attack in Om. At the time of shooting, no one knew that there was a bomb in the red car on the right in the picture. Having blown up, she killed 29 people and 220 wounded. The man and child in the photo survived, the photographer died.

14-year-old Keith Sapsford hid in the landing gear of an airplane that flew from Sydney to Japan. Amateur photographer John Gilspin was just testing his new lens when the boy fell out of his hiding place from a height of 60 meters. The teenager died.

Lecturer William "Dave" Sanders led more than 100 students out of the cafeteria during a mass execution in Columbine High School in 1999. He later received two shots in the chest and died.

The last shot taken on Uruguayan Flight 571 before it crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. 27 out of 45 people survived the initial accident. 72 days later, only 16 people were saved.

Dave Hally took the last photograph of his wife and 4-year-old daughter before flying on their “dream vacation” on flight Mh17, which did not reach its destination. All those on board died.

The camera captures the moment before Flight 235 crashed in the Keelung River in Taiwan. There were 58 people on the plane and only 15 of them survived.

Gilles Leclerc and Marianne Labanane took a selfie at the Bataclan Theater, while they waited for the performance of the Eagles Of Death Metal. After a few moments, 4 gunmen burst into the hall and opened fire. Gilles was killed, Marianne survived.

In 1995, professional stuntman Robert Overcracker decided to go down from Niagara Falls on a jet ski, opening a parachute at some point. Thus, he wanted to draw public attention to the problem of the homeless. The picture was taken a moment before the stuntman’s parachute did not open and the man died.

The last moments of the life of the 17-year-old gorilla Harambe. The animal was killed after a child fell into his aviary at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.

West Milford took this photo while camping in New Jersey. A few minutes later, the bear attacked and killed him.

Nicholas Mevoli after his last free dive. He plunged to a depth of 70 meters. Having completed the dive, the diver got up, gave the sign "Ok", tried to speak and disconnected. Without regaining consciousness, he died the same day from pulmonary edema.

Suspecting nothing, this family took the last moments of Ayano Tokumasu's life. A 20-year-old student in red rushed to Niagara Falls, committing suicide.

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