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Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
Video producer and director music video American Airlines Flight 11: World Trade Center North Tower, New York City 9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta: George Beurling: Canada 1948 World War II ace pilot Noorduyn Norseman: Rome, Italy: Possible sabotage Neerja Bhanot: India 1986 Flight attendant who saved lives during a hijacking Pan Am Flight 73 ...
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2001. ISBN 978-0-203-80104-8. McClinton-Temple, Jennifer and Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2007. ISBN 978-0816-05656-9. Porter, Joy and Kenneth M. Roemer, eds. The Cambridge Companion To Native American ...
A racist “Karen” was seen hurtling insults at an Indian-American family after a United Airlines flight Wedding photographer, Pervez Taufiq, at airport, with people and luggage in the ...
Coleman developed an early interest in flying, but African Americans, Native Americans, and women had no flight training opportunities in the United States, so she saved and obtained sponsorships in Chicago to go to France for flight school. She then became a high-profile pilot in notoriously dangerous air shows in the United States.
It was the first major commercial passenger flight accident in the U.S. in nearly 16 years, following Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [50] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [51]
The woman was killed after Monday night’s storms knocked a tree into a home in West Baton Rouge Parish, officials said. Kristin Browning, 31, was nine months pregnant, and her unborn child did ...
Betty Ann Ong [1] (Chinese: 鄧月薇, Taishanese Ang 4 ngut 4 mi 3; February 5, 1956 – September 11, 2001 [2]) was an American flight attendant who worked for American Airlines and boarded Flight 11, the first airplane hijacked during the September 11 attacks. [3]