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United Airlines Flight 859 was a Douglas DC-8, registration N8040U [1], on a scheduled passenger flight that crashed on landing at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado after departing from Omaha, Nebraska's Eppley Airfield on July 11, 1961. Eighteen people were killed, and 84 were injured.
United Air Lines Flight 553 was a scheduled domestic flight from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska, via Chicago Midway International Airport.On December 8, 1972, the Boeing 737-222 serving the flight, City of Lincoln registration N9031U, [2] [1]: 2 crashed while approaching Midway Airport.
1883 Omaha connected by telephone with Lincoln and Plattsmouth. 1883 The Omaha Union Stock Yards Company was organized. 1885 Gilbert Hitchcock founded the Omaha World-Herald. 1891 African American George Smith lynched in Omaha for "leering at a white woman." 1891 500 workers attack the ASARCO plant in downtown.
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
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Braniff International Airways Flight 250 crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, on August 6, 1966, en route to Omaha from Kansas City, Missouri. [1] [2] Thirty-eight passengers and four crew members were killed in the crash, which occurred in a farm field late on a Saturday night.
Mister C's was a renowned steakhouse in North Omaha founded by one of the Caniglia brothers. After operating for more than 55 years, the restaurant closed in 2007. [1] Gorat's was founded in 1944, and still operates from its original location where Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett regularly dines. [2]
FBI agents discovered that Doty, a married man with a five-year-old daughter, had purchased a life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha for $150,000 (roughly equivalent to $1.16 million in 2022), the maximum available; his death would also bring in another $150,000 in additional insurance (some purchased at the airport) and death benefits ...