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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.
American Airlines Flight 11: World Trade Center North Tower, New York City 9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta: Toivo Antikainen: Finland 1941 Communist leader, military officer Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union: Was allegedly killed in a plane crash, but some claim he died in Moscow under suspicious circumstances. Steve Appleton: United States 2012
Rexroat died in June 2017 at the age of 99. [9] Immediately before her death she was the last surviving WASP in South Dakota and one of 275 living WASPs out of the original 1,074. [ 10 ] Several months after her death, the airfield operations building at Ellsworth Air Force Base was named after her.
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 ...
She was popularly known as "Queen Bess" and "Brave Bessie", [12] and hoped to start a school for African-American fliers. Coleman died in a plane crash in 1926. Her pioneering role was an inspiration to early pilots and to the African-American and Native American communities.
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]
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.