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Only five of the 13 deaths actually occurred on flights carrying mail, [1] but directly and indirectly the air mail operation caused accidental crash deaths in the Air Corps to rise by 15 percent to 54 in 1934, compared to 46 in 1933 and 47 in 1935. [2] The press dubbed this the Air Mail scandal, or the Air Mail fiasco.
The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a 1934 congressional investigation into the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and the subsequent disastrous use of the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) to fly the mail after the contracts were revoked.
Seven people were killed when the luxury vessel, carrying 12 passengers and 10 crew, sank amid severe weather off the coast of Sicily last month
The captain of Mike Lynch's yacht flew out of Palermo on Thursday, 10 days after the British tech tycoon and six other people were killed when the vessel sank off the coast of Sicily.
They recovered the body of Hannah Lynch, the last missing person at the back of the boat, on Aug. 23, 2024, four days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. Investigation underway ...
Italian civil protection officials believe a sudden and fierce storm that battered the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday whipped up a waterspout in the exact spot where the 56-meter ...
The Bayesian luxury yacht that sank on Aug. 19 off the coast of Sicily HANDOUT/Vigili del Fuoco/AFP via Getty Divers during the search and rescue efforts for the people aboard the Bayesian yacht ...
The Bayesian yacht, flying a British flag, sinks at around 5am local time when the area was hit by a tornado. Fifteen people are rescued from the 55m (180ft) vessel – including a mother and baby ...