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Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707-329 [1] flight operated by Sabena that crashed en route from New York City to Brussels, Belgium on 15 February 1961.The flight, which had originated at Idlewild International Airport, [2] crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground. [3]
US figure skating team: Figure skating: Sabena: Boeing 707: Brussels, Belgium: 73: 25: Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 3 April 1961: C.D. Green Cross: Association football: LAN Chile: Douglas C-47A-35-DL: Llico, Chile: 24: 8: Eight members of the team killed. [10] 6 February ...
Also in 2015, WFSS' Skating Hall of Fame was formed and the first World Figure Championship on black ice was held [1] [6] and renamed the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships, or WFFSC, after the literary skating masterpiece that was written in 1895 by George A. Meagher, (The Champion Figure Skater of the World starting in 1891).
They were removed entirely in 1990 even though tracing those figures is what gave the sport its name of figure skating. The changes came immediately after two famous Janet Lynn moments.
XA-XAX, the aircraft involved, was an approximately six months old Douglas DC-8-21. It was the 105th Douglas DC-8 made. It was being leased to Aeronaves de México by Eastern Air Lines. At the time of the accident it had accumulated 259 flight hours. [1] [2]
There were three events contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating. [1] On February 15, 1961, the entire United States figure skating team and several family members, coaches, and officials were killed when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, en route to the World Championships in Prague. The accident caused the ...
Lake Placid, New York hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics, where figure skating made its fifth Olympic appearance. Figure skating grew in the U.S. following World War II. In 1948, Dick Button became the first American men's skater to win the Olympics, and the first to become World champion.
The report says that someone visited the sheriff’s department on Feb. 3 to report something, but the report redacts what was reported. Whatever was reported apparently happened between 2018 and ...