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  2. Water landing - Wikipedia

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    Out of the 45 people on board the plane, 4 drowned, 11 are missing and presumed dead, 17 were injured, and 13 sustained no injuries. [72] 8 May 1978: National Airlines Flight 193, a Boeing 727 Trijet, unintentionally landed in the waters of Escambia Bay near Pensacola, Florida after coming down short of the runway during a foggy approach. There ...

  3. Doodh peeti - Wikipedia

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    Doodh peeti was a method of female infanticide in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk (doodh). It is the British government who found that in Rajasthan, the people were dipping and drowning newborn girls in milk until they died. The practice was prevalent in the Saurashtra and Kutch region of India.

  4. Jim Creek Naval Radio Station - Wikipedia

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    Much of the site is devoted to the enormous overhead wire antenna array that is necessary to efficiently radiate the VLF waves. The antenna, shown above, consists of ten catenary cables, 5,640–8,700 ft (1,719–2,652 m, 1.1–1.6 miles) long, suspended in a zigzag pattern over the valley between Wheeler mountain and Blue mountain on twelve 200 ft. towers on the mountains' crests.

  5. List of disasters on the Severn - Wikipedia

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    The ferryboat lurched and all 17 passengers were tipped into the river. Some witnesses said the ferry was overloaded. Nine people were drowned. [4] 4 February 1939, three tanker barges overturned in the estuary off Sharpness. They were taken with the tide into the piers of the Severn Railway Bridge. Of the eight man crew, six men were killed

  6. List of drowning victims - Wikipedia

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    Drowned off the beach at San Diego, Hotel Del Coronado November 1904. Grace Brown (born 1886), American garment industry worker. She drowned in New York's Big Moose Lake on June 11, 1906, after she fell out of a boat being rowed by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, nephew of her employer. Witnesses said Gillette had struck her on the head with a ...

  7. Norfolk Island Airport - Wikipedia

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    Norfolk Island is an important transit and refueling point for light aircraft flying between Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.. Located 852 km (529 mi) southeast of Norfolk is Kaitaia Airport the most northerly airfield in New Zealand, 754 km (469 mi) north is Nouméa Airport in New Caledonia, and 900 km (560 mi) west is Lord Howe Island Airport which is 600 km (370 mi) to the ...

  8. Drowning - Wikipedia

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    Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid. Submersion injury refers to both drowning and near-miss incident. Most instances of fatal drowning occur alone or in situations where others present are either unaware of the victim's situation or unable to offer assistance.

  9. Slavic water spirits - Wikipedia

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    According to Stanisław Urbańczyk, amongst other scholars, Navia was a general name for demons arising from the souls of tragic and premature deaths, the killers and the killed, warlocks, and the drowned. [6] They were said to be hostile and unfavourable towards the living, being jealous of life. [6]