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Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. [2] [3] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. [3]Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English language skills.
In 2014, a United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Wichita, after an evacuation slide inflated inside the cabin when the plane was almost 40,000ft over Kansas.
Koepcke found herself falling, still strapped to her row of seats, 3,000 m (10,000 ft) into the Amazon rainforest. Koepcke survived the fall but suffered injuries such as a broken collarbone, a deep cut on her right arm, an eye injury and concussion. She then spent 11 days in the rainforest, most of which were spent making her way through water ...
The earliest known female sole survivor is Linda McDonald. On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash near Pittsburgh that killed 10 other people, including her boyfriend. She was 17 at the time. The youngest sole survivor is Chanayuth Nim-anong, who on 3 September 1997, survived a crash when he was just 14 months old.
Stranded travelers wait in the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport September 11, 2001, in Chicago, Illinois. ... photos of the attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings in a ...
The remains of all 67 victims of last week's midair collision of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital have been recovered, authorities said Tuesday. “Our ...
Several videos and photographs of the hole left by the plane show a living woman inside the hole, generally identified as Edna Cintrón, waving at people in the streets below. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The victim appears outside among the mass of iron and leaning on one of the ruins of the structure while shaking her hand, and right arm.
A terrifying incident unfolded at Chicago O’Hare Airport this week when a plane engine caught fire on the runway moments before takeoff.. A United Airlines Airbus 320 had careened onto the ...