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  2. Poptropica - Wikipedia

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    Poptropica Worlds had new features, such as redesigned characters, customizable homes, and new islands. Returning players could port over their avatar's look and name to Poptropica Worlds. Poptropica Worlds could be played on both the web and mobile. If membership was bought for Poptropica, it carried over to Poptropica Worlds, and vice versa.

  3. Flight with disabled controls - Wikipedia

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    Despite the damage, the crew was able to perform a crash landing on a mountain, with 50 of the 54 occupants surviving the crash. The captain survived the crash and escaped, but died trying to save a passenger who remained in the wreckage. The 707 made a successful emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

  4. Jess Brallier - Wikipedia

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    Jess M. Brallier (born May 31, 1953) is a publisher working in various media, genres, and formats, such as bestselling books, popular web sites, apps, and virtual worlds including Poptropica, one of the Internet's largest virtual worlds for kids. [1]

  5. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 - Wikipedia

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    The aftermath of the belly landing. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was a Boeing 767 (registered as SP-LPC) passenger jet on a scheduled service from Newark, United States, to Warsaw, Poland, that on 1 November 2011 made a successful gear-up emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, after its landing gear failed to extend. All 231 people on ...

  6. List of spacecraft intentionally crashed into ...

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    The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.

  7. Alan Magee - Wikipedia

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    Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was a United States airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. [1]

  8. Lithobraking - Wikipedia

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    Lithobraking is a whimsical "crash landing" euphemism used by spacecraft engineers to refer to a spacecraft impacting the surface of a planet or moon. [1] [2] [3] The word was coined by analogy with "aerobraking", slowing a spacecraft by intersecting the atmosphere, with "lithos" (Ancient Greek: λίθος [líthos], "rock") [4] substituted to indicate the spacecraft is intersecting the planet ...

  9. Against the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Against the Sun is a 2014 American survival drama film. Based on a true story from World War II, the film was written, produced, and directed by Brian Falk and starred Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, and Jake Abel. The film was released via video on demand on January 23, 2015.