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Cynthia Oti, an investment broker and financial talk show host at San Francisco's KSFO-AM, was killed. [18] Tom Stockley, wine columnist for The Seattle Times, died alongside his wife Margaret. [18] Morris Thompson, commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska from 1973 to 1976, died alongside his wife Thelma and daughter Sheryl. [14 ...
The 64 people aboard the flight were killed instantly, while a further 125 people in the Pentagon were either killed outright or fatally injured. In the minutes leading up to the crash, Reagan Airport controllers had asked a passing Air National Guard Lockheed C-130 Hercules to identify and follow the aircraft.
Luftwaffe experten (ace) Jürgen Harder (13 June 1918 – 17 February 1945), recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with 64 claimed victories, was killed in the crash of a Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14, Werk. Nr. 784 738, near Strausberg, Germany, after the plane's engine failed. Technical experts who analysed the wreckage concluded that ...
The 41-year-old pilot, Murat Akhatovich Itkulov (Russian: Мурат Ахатович Иткулов), with close to 7,900 flight hours (4,181 of them on the Tu-154), who was normally the first officer, did not officially serve on duty, because this was the captain's assessment flight; 50-year-old Sergei Gennadyevich Kharlov (Russian ...
Nine crew members of a Flying Fortress based at Sioux City, were killed when the plane crashed and burned on a farm near here late today. Persons within a radius of several miles said they saw the plane explode and crash." [179] B-17F-40-VE, 42-6013, of the 393d CCTS, piloted by Frank R. Hilford, appears to be the airframe involved. [180] 2 January
The crash of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205, an Argentina-based airline, killed all but one of the 51 persons on board. The C-46 Commando plane had been carrying vacationers from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata and exploded while attempting to land, before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean.
Died: Ernie Kovacs, 42, an American comedian who was killed in a car accident while driving on Santa Monica Boulevard. Kovacs and his wife, Edie Adams, were driving home separately from a baby shower in honor of Mrs. Milton Berle. At 2:00 in the morning, his station wagon skidded and crashed into a utility pole.