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The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
United Airlines Flight 859 was a Douglas DC-8, registration N8040U [1], on a scheduled passenger flight that crashed on landing at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado after departing from Omaha, Nebraska's Eppley Airfield on July 11, 1961. Eighteen people were killed, and 84 were injured.
Dwania Kyles, one of three students who integrated Bruce Elementary in 1961, looks back at a mural painted of her by muralist Jamond Bullock at Bruce Elementary on Friday Jan. 17, 2020.
January 13, 1963: A Delta Air Lines Douglas DC-7, registration N4875C, crashed into a parked USAF Fairchild C-123 Provider on an unfamiliar taxiway at night. At the time the DC-7 was carrying 5 occupants on board on during a ferrying/positioning flight and was taxiing for takeoff at then Memphis Municipal Airport when it struck the USAF airplane.
All 11 people on board (eight passengers and three crew) were killed. The cause of the crash was determined to be icing, either on the wings or propellers. [22] February 10, 1944: American Airlines Flight 2, a DC-3 routing Little Rock, Arkansas-Memphis crashed into the Mississippi River about 18.1 miles (29.1 km) from Memphis International ...
The crash killed 130 people aboard; two stewardesses survived. It was, at the time, the worst single-plane disaster. June 22: Air France Flight 117, a 707-328 (F-BHST), crashed into a hill while attempting to land at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. All 113 aboard were killed in the crash.
A Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound were killed in a car crash early Friday, authorities said. Officers were called to the location of a crash involving a ...