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Impact of two kamikazes on the USS Bunker Hill. During World War II, the Russian aviator Nikolai Gastello was the first Soviet pilot credited with a (later disputed) "fire taran" in a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target, although his aircraft had been shot down and was in a rapid partially controllable descent. [9]
Germanwings Flight 9525 [1] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa.
Ansett Australia Flight 232, on Wednesday, 15 November 1972, was a flight from Adelaide, South Australia aboard a Fokker Friendship bound for Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It was Australia's second aircraft hijacking (after the first in 1960), and resulted in the perpetrator's death by suicide.
Alice Springs Airport (IATA: ASP, ICAO: YBAS) is an Australian regional airport 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.. The airport was notably involved in Australia's second domestic airline hijacking, and later a suicide attack by a former airline employee which claimed the lives of four others.
12 August – A pilot dies when the helicopter he was flying on an "unauthorised" flight crashes into a hotel in the Queensland city of Cairns shortly before 2:00am prompting the evacuation of approximately 400 people. [512] 13 August – A 10-year-old girl is found dead on the Gold Coast. [513]
The division is responsible for all news-gathering and production of news output for ABC television, the ABC network of radio stations, and for its online services.In 2018 it was estimated that online ABC news and current affairs reached about 4.8 million users in Australia each month. [23]
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In 2014, Charlotte Dawson, an Australian TV presenter, died by suicide by hanging. [46] In 2015, Mike Gibson, an Australian sports journalist, columnist, commentator, and radio and television presenter, died by suicide. [47] [48] In October 2016, Fergus David Edward Miller, known professionally as Bored Nothing, an Australian musician, died by ...