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The Hurum air disaster was an Aero Holland plane crash in Hurum southwest of Oslo, Norway when a Douglas DC-3 which was carrying Jewish children from Tunisia who were to transit through Norway while immigrating to Israel crashed as it was approaching Fornebu Airport on 20 November 1949, killing 34 people, including 27 children.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons , a mousetrap , and steam pumps .
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
Seating chart for American Airlines Flight 1420 created by the NTSB, revealing the location of passengers and lack of injury, severity of injuries, and deaths. The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration N215AA [2]), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.
Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later. [13] 1942-08-25 Sgt Andrew Jack 20 Male C Royal Air Force: Dunbeath Air Crash: 15 [14] 1943-01-22 John Alfred Howard 26 Male P Pan American-Grace Airways: Flight 9 14 [15] 1943-06-14 Foye Kenneth Roberts 22 Male P U.S. Army Air Forces: Bakers Creek air crash: 40 [16] 1946-09-05 ...
At least eight cancer doctors who were heading to an oncology conference were among dozens killed in a plane crash in Brazil’s Vinhedo on Friday, an official has said.. The ATR 72 twin-engine ...
The crash Friday killed 58 passengers and four crew members. Footage of the plane plunging while in a flat spin horrified people around the world, and the cause of the accident has yet to be ...
Two children, a lawyer and eight cancer doctors were reportedly among the 61 people killed when a plane crashed in a Brazilian city last week.. A total of 57 passengers and four crew members were ...