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In 1978, an outbreak of smallpox in the United Kingdom resulted in the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, who became the last recorded person to die from the disease. Her illness and death, which was connected to the deaths of two other people, led to the Shooter Inquiry, an official investigation by government-appointed ...
The fleet's "Janet" call sign is said to stand for "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal" [3] [4] or "Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation". [5] The first flights from Las Vegas to Area 51 were performed in 1972 by a Douglas DC-6 operated by EG&G. A second DC-6 was added in 1976, and this type remained in use until 1981. [6]
The author, Mark Pallen, proposes an explanation of how Janet Parker – the last person to die from smallpox – contracted the infection. This explanation, based on court transcripts and interviews with the barrister who defended the University, and the clinicians and scientists who were involved with the outbreak, contradicts the conclusions ...
Janet Parker's father, 71-year-old Frederick Witcomb, had died at Catherine-de-Barnes Hospital a week before his daughter after he had suffered a cardiac arrest while visiting her. No post-mortem was carried out on his body because of the risk of smallpox infection.
Call sign Country Comments JTN JET TEST United States JGJ Jinggong Jet: GLOBAL JINGGONG China 2014, [1] 2023 [2] JNY Journey Aviation: ROCKBAND United States 2023: Callsign "ROCKBAND"; [2] Former Call Sign/Telephony Designator: UNIJET-ROCKBAND (2014 [1]) JKR Justice Air Charter: JOKER United States Trading name for Reliant Aviation, allocated ...
formerly Schreiner Airways. ICAO code in use by another company, call sign no longer allocated HKS CHC Helikopter Service: HELIBUS Norway VCI CI-Tours: CI-TOURS Ivory Coast CKC CKC Services: United States CMZ CM Stair: CEE-EM STAIRS Mauritania CNT Centre national d'études des télécommunications - C.N.E.T. KNET France OAP COAPA AIR: COAPA ...
Call sign Country Comments PIP Pilot Flight Academy PILOT Norway HRS Pursuit Aviation HORSEMAN United States 2016 [1] NCT Pete Air: PETE AIR Thailand 2014 [2] PRT Prime Service Italia: PRIME ITALIA Italy 2014 [2] PXT Pacific Coast Jet: PACK COAST United States Allocated in 2014 [3] BPH Phoenix Helicopter Academy: BLACK PHOENIX United Kingdom ...
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).