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A bomb exploded underneath a passenger's seat. The passenger died, but the plane landed safely in Honolulu. July 9, 1982 153 4 0 Pan Am Flight 759: Kenner: Louisiana: Boeing 727-200: The aircraft experienced a microburst shortly after takeoff, causing a rapid, unrecoverable descent. All on board and 8 on the ground were killed. January 23, 1982 ...
The episode featured interviews with survivors and showed actual footage of the crash. [45] The accident was the subject of the 1992 television movie A Thousand Heroes, also known as Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232. [46] The episode "Engineering Disasters" (season 6, episode 18) of Modern Marvels featured the crash.
By Catherine Lucey DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - As he sat in a crippled airliner, Ron May braced his head between his legs and prayed for his wife, who was seven months' pregnant with their first child ...
The four north Iowa men died Friday when a single-engine Piper PA-46 carrying them from Fort Dodge crashed in a cornfield near their destination, Anderson, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis.
Alfred Clair Haynes (August 31, 1931 – August 25, 2019) was an American airline pilot who flew for United Airlines for 35 years. In 1989 he came to international attention as the captain of United Airlines Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a total loss of controls.
Figure skater Maxim Naumov boarded a flight out of Wichita just days before his parents were killed when their American Airlines plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on ...
When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said in jest: "Well, I hope your damned bus freezes up." Jennings responded: "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes", a humorous but ill-fated response that would haunt Jennings for the rest of his life. [17] Valens, who once had a fear of flying, asked Allsup for his seat on the plane.
Nate Rhoades, 21, died following a January 2022 car crash in California after he managed to get sober from an addiction. His parents opened a nonprofit wellness and recovery center named in their ...