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On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site.
August 2 – In the 1947 BSAA Star Dust accident, an Avro Lancastrian airliner disappeared over the Andes after transmitting an enigmatic coded message ("STENDEC"); the fate of the aircraft remains a mystery for more than 50 years until the crash site is finally located in 2000; it is apparent that all 11 people on board died in the accident.
On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner operating as flight CS59 from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato, in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site, and the fate of the ...
A "large-scale" search for the plane and passengers took place soon after the crash, and Dodds' remains were found on Oct. 8, 2007, in the Straits of Mackinac, east of the Mackinac Bridge.
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By RYAN GORMAN Researchers believe they have discovered where Amelia Earhart's plane crashed during her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe. A sheet of metal found more than 20 years ago on ...
The plane crash injured at least five crew members, DPAA said. Nine crew members were rescued, but Newman was not. Newman was considered missing in action and his remains were thought to be “non ...
On April 22, 1947, a Douglas DC-3 of Delta Air Lines and a Vultee BT-13 Valiant of the Tuskegee Aviation Institute collided in mid-air above Muscogee County Airport (now Columbus Airport) in Georgia, United States, and crashed. All nine people on board both aircraft, including eight Delta executives, were killed in the accident.