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In 2001, the 50th Anniversary list of National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000, ranked Kalitta at #21. [2] Kalitta was played by Beau Bridges, in a lead role, in the Muldowney biography film Heart Like a Wheel (1983). He is the father of racer Scott Kalitta, killed in a drag racing crash in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, in 2008 ...
A look back at the crew members' sleep patterns in the 72 hours before the accident revealed that all 3 had accumulated a large sleep debt from working over long shifts. In the three days before the accident, Captain Chapo slept for a total of 15 hours, First Officer Curran for 18 hours and Flight Engineer Richmond for 21.5 hours.
Scott D. Kalitta (February 18, 1962 – June 21, 2008) was an American drag racer who competed in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. He had 17 career Top Fuel wins and one career Funny Car win.
A Texas DPS pursuit of a suspected smuggler vehicle ended in a fatal crash near an El Paso refinery on North Loop Drive. 2 migrants dead, others injured when Texas DPS pursuit ends in crash near ...
Operated by 10 Tanker Air Carrier out of New Mexico, the aerial firefighting unit has been using the former passenger airliner in active service since 2006; Kalitta's maintenance crew, meanwhile ...
The pursuit began about 1 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30, when a state trooper attempted to pull over a gray Mazda car with a fake license plate that was speeding northbound on Sunland Park Drive in West El ...
The governing body of the Department of Public Safety is the Public Safety Commission, with all members being appointed by the Governor of Texas. The commission is responsible for appointing the director of the department. The director is assisted in managing the department by three deputy directors and multiple division chiefs.
One person has been arrested in connection to the crash that killed a Texas Trooper in September in Ector County. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday ...