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On February 15, 1961, the entire United States figure skating team and several family members, coaches, and officials were killed when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, en route to the World Championships in Prague. The accident caused the cancellation of the 1961 World Championships and necessitated the building of a new American ...
Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707-329 [1] flight operated by Sabena that crashed en route from New York City to Brussels, Belgium on 15 February 1961.The flight, which had originated at Idlewild International Airport, [2] crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground. [3]
Sixteen players killed. 15 February 1961: US figure skating team: Figure skating: Sabena: Boeing 707: Brussels, Belgium: 73: 25: Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 3 April 1961: C.D. Green Cross: Association football: LAN Chile: Douglas C-47A-35-DL: Llico, Chile: 24: 8: Eight ...
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Longtime figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over the course of a 60-year career helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games, including Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, died Sunday. U ...
Fourteen-year-old Morgan Innes, who had won the 2006 Queensland Intermediate Ladies Championship and was placed seventh at the 2006 Australian Championships in the novice ladies division, was killed along with ice skating judges Simone Moore and Alan Blinn, and 45-year-old Sydney man James Engert on the sightseeing trip when the cabin cruiser collided with the Sydney Ferries Harbour Cat Pam ...
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They won the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships and the silver medal at the 1961 North American Figure Skating Championships. On January 28, 2011, Owen was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame along with the entire 1961 World Team. Her sister Laurence Owen also was inducted and her mother Maribel Vinson Owen ...