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A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift. With the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang having fallen in March, and with Saigon under attack and being shelled, on 3 April 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. government would begin airlifting orphans out of Saigon on a series of 30 planned flights aboard Military Airlift ...
Bahia Bakari (born 15 August 1996) is a French woman who was the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on 30 June 2009, killing the other 152 people on board.
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
A US Airways flight traveling almost all the way across the country was forced to make an emergency landing after a baby on the flight stopped breathing. Flight 678 out of Tampa was on its way to ...
Footage shows soldiers discovering a makeshift shelter made by Columbian children who were involved in a plane crash in the Amazon jungle more than two weeks ago. Columbian president Gustavo Petro ...
In a sprawling rescue operation, 29 survivors including two children were pulled from the wreckage near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said, adding that ...
The accident marked the second operational loss and first fatal crash for the C-5 Galaxy fleet, and is the third deadliest accident involving a U.S. military aircraft after the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown and Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
At 20:34, the homeowner contacted Central Dispatch to inform them of the plane crash survivor. Central Dispatch sent a rescue vehicle to retrieve the survivor and it arrived at 20:45. Five other survivors, including a 23-month-old baby carried by another survivor, walked together about 1.5 miles over 1.5 hours to a highway.