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American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727-100, crashed at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976, while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. Green Airport in Rhode Island and ending at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, with an intermediate stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Of the three islands, St. Thomas is the second largest, with St. Croix being the largest, and St. John, the smallest. [4] As of the 2010 census , the population of Saint Thomas was 51,634, [ 5 ] about 48.5% of the total population of the United States Virgin Islands.
Little Saint James is the smaller of the two islands in the southeast of nr. 2 of Saint Thomas. Little Saint James is a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands, southeast of Saint Thomas. It was owned by American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 until his death in 2019.
Sarm Joan Lillian Heslop [2] (born 19 December 1979) [3] is a British woman who went missing from a catamaran, moored in a bay off the western coast of Saint John, one of the United States Virgin Islands, in March 2021. She was last seen by a third party at a restaurant on 7 March, and was believed to have taken a dinghy with her boyfriend back ...
A referendum on the death penalty was held in the United States Virgin Islands on 7 November 1978, [1] in response to a decree by the Governor of the Islands. He requested a non-binding consultative referendum be held in conjunction with the next general election .
The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. [1] The incident left eight resort employees and tourists dead. Another eight were either shot at or wounded.
Charles Wesley Turnbull was born on February 6, 1935, in the island of St. Thomas to John Wesley Turnbull and Ruth Ann Eliza Skelton of Tortola. [2] [3] Prior to being elected governor in 1998, he was a professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the territorial Department of Education, principal and assistant principal of Charlotte Amalie High ...
[citation needed] In 1963 he founded Antilles Air Boats, which provided transport between St Thomas and St Croix in the US Virgin Islands as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico. [5] [8] Six years later he retired from Pan Am. He slowly built Antilles Air Boats up until it operated 27 aircraft, all propeller-driven flying boats from the war years ...