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Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old American trainee pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States.
Finnish-born Soviet aviator who crashed in a heavy snow storm Ahmed Kandil: Egypt 1950 Swimmer: Spitfire: Port Said, Egypt: Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 was a scheduled flight from Logan International Airport to Bangor International Airport in the United States on August 25, 1985. On final approach to Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, the Bar Harbor Airlines Beechcraft Model 99 crashed short of the runway, killing all six passengers and two crew on board.
An Oregon sheriff has identified the remains of the couple from Caldwell, west of Boise, who died in a plane crash Sunday. The remains in the plane belonged to David Hagerty, 69, and his wife ...
A bomb exploded underneath a passenger's seat. The passenger died, but the plane landed safely in Honolulu. July 9, 1982 153 4 0 Pan Am Flight 759: Kenner: Louisiana: Boeing 727-200: The aircraft experienced a microburst shortly after takeoff, causing a rapid, unrecoverable descent. All on board and 8 on the ground were killed. January 23, 1982 ...
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
Three men who died in a small plane crash in Oregon were Afghan Air Force pilots who fought with the American military and came to the U.S. as refugees after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]