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Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. [3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
1976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash; 1976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash; 1976 Venezuelan Air Force C-130 crash; A. Aeroflot Flight 418; Aeroflot Flight 909;
October 25 – After the No. 1 engine of a Taxi Aéreo El Venado Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain (registration HK-149) fails shortly after takeoff from El Yopal Airport in Yopal, Colombia, its crew attempts to return to the airport, but the airliner noses down, crashes, and burns 6.5 kilometers (4.0 miles) from the airport, killing all 36 people on board.
1976 was a leap year ... June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, ... October 6 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b.
The Double Six Crash, also known as the Double Six Tragedy (referring to 6 June), was a crash, involving a GAF N-22B Nomad of Sabah Air, which took place on 6 June 1976 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, killing several local political leaders, including two top leaders - Tun Fuad Stephens and Datuk Peter Mojuntin.
October 20, 1976: Seventy-eight people drown in U.S. ferryboat accident [1] October 6, 1976: The Gang of Four ( Jiang Qing , Zhang Chunqiao , Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen ) are arrested in China, bringing an end to the Cultural Revolution
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, also known as LAB, was the flag carrier of Bolivia. It was founded in 1925, and it had been existing for 51 years at the time of the accident. The aircraft, a then 17 year old Boeing 707-131F (CN/MSN: 17671), manufactured 30 June 1959, was originally delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on 14 July 1959, and was assigned its aircraft registration (or tail number ...