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Bill Haast (December 30, 1910 – June 15, 2011 [1]) was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing live venom extraction from snakes. [2]
On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
In 1949 the airport added runways 3L/21R and 9L/27R, followed by runway 4R/22L in 1950. In 1946-47 most airline traffic moved from the cramped Detroit City Airport (now Coleman A. Young International Airport) northeast of downtown Detroit to Willow Run Airport over 20 miles (32 km) west of the city, and 10 miles (16 km) west of Wayne County ...
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.
This is a list of airports in Michigan (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA, or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
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Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Blountville, Tennessee: Engine failure due to ice accumulation [68] Wendell Ladner: United States 1975 ABA basketball player Eastern Air Lines Flight 66: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York Windshear Joseph LaMotta: United States 1998 Chef, son of Jake LaMotta: Swissair Flight 111
Taylor Municipal Airport (FAA LID: T74) is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Taylor, a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. [1] The airport is located on Highway 79 and it is an important component of economic development for the City of Taylor and the region ...