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Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York City, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West Germany. On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal ...
Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) [1] [2] was an Indian flight purser.On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.
During climb, the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence from a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 that took off minutes before it, caused the vertical fin to snap. The plane crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens. [12] The crash killed all 260 people on the plane and five people on the ground.
Maghfoor Mansoor (March 9, 1966 – May 11, 2001) was a U.S.-based Pakistani native who worked as a cab driver and tour guide.He was a fugitive in the United States who had been on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
People line up with their blood types at St. Vincent Hospital September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack.
On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, twelve minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, United States. [2]: 1 All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
The incident on a northbound A train, which was captured on video, comes on the heels of a string of violent crimes on the city’s subway system that prompted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to deploy ...
Debrina Kawam, the NYC subway passenger who was burned to death, was known to her classmates as “Debbie” or “Deb,” and graduated from Passaic Valley Regional School in Little Falls, New ...