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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
Wedell was born in Texas City on March 31, 1900, to Robert and Ida Wedell, who operated a tavern in the town. His brother Walter, born on November 14, 1901, was joined later by sisters, Elizabeth and Mary. With the sudden and premature death of both parents, the brothers were on their own from teen years on.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the plane had climbed about 900 feet after takeoff but then the pilot immediately called back to the control tower and asked if he could return.
Flight attendants on QantasLink Flight 1737 prevented their plane from being hijacked by a passenger with mental health issues. Two of them were taken to hospital with stab wounds. [110] Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered a decompression which tore an 18 ft (5.5 m) section of fuselage away from the plane. The only fatality was flight attendant ...
The May 3, 1968, crash of Braniff Flight 352 south of Fort Worth was the deadliest airline disaster in Texas history at the time, killing all 85 on board. But the tragedy has largely been forgotten.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141, a Boeing 727 flying between Dallas-Fort Worth and Salt Lake City on Aug. 31, 1988, crashed shortly after takeoff. Of the 108 on board, two crew members and 12 ...
By late September, plans called for five schools to provide transition training in very heavy bombers, including a school for the TB-32 Dominator at Fort Worth, Texas. Training of pilots and flight engineers as instructors got underway at Maxwell Field , Alabama , on 20 September 1944, when the school took over facilities previously used for B ...
A Facebook page about the plane identified the B-17 as the one named Texas Raiders, which the Commemorative Air Force website calls “one of the most recognized and popular warbirds.” Out of ...