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The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred in the western United States on June 30, 1956, when a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 struck a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The first plane fell into the canyon while the other slammed into a rock face. All 128 on board both airplanes ...
Six other people have died at Grand Canyon National Park since July. On July 31, 20-year-old college student Abel Joseph Mejia died after falling about 400 feet from the rim near the Pipe Creek ...
From 2014 to 2019, 103 people died in Grand Canyon National Park, according to the NPS mortality dashboard.Of those fatalities, 49 were a result of medical emergencies or issues, including 37 ...
An 80-year-old man has died after falling from a boat on the Colorado River inside Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said Tuesday. In a news release, a Grand Canyon National Park ...
Park spokesperson Joelle Baird said there have been 11 deaths in Grand Canyon National Park this year, equaling the total for all of 2023. The park had 12 fatalities in 2022, 23 in 2021, and 13 in ...
An elderly woman on a commercial Grand Canyon rafting trip in 1971 announced to other rafters that she was Bessie Hyde, and that she had stabbed her abusive husband to death and escaped the canyon on her own. This was unlike what was known of Glen Hyde. The woman later recanted this story.
The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred when Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, collided with a Bell 206 helicopter, Helitech Flight 2, over Grand Canyon National Park on June 18, 1986. All 25 passengers and crew on board the two aircraft were killed.
Another Grand Canyon visitor died on July 31. Abel Joseph Mejia, a 20-year-old North Carolina resident, fell from the rim approximately 1/4 mile west of Pipe Creek Overlook. Rangers found his body ...