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Sabena Flight 548 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Idlewild Airport in New York City to Brussels Airport in Belgium. On 15 February 1961, the Boeing 707-329 operating the flight crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground.
Loss of control in low visibility; wife Gwen Shamblin Lara also died in this accident; see 2021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna Citation crash: Eugène Lefebvre: France 1909 First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash Wright Model A: Port-Aviation (Juvisy), France Crashed from 20 feet
Wednesday's plane crash that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skating team members recalls memories of another tragedy nearly 64 years ago.
The crowd crush is the worst recorded accident to have occurred in Sabarimala. In the past on 14 January 1952, 66 Ayyappa pilgrims were burnt to death when two fireworks sheds caught fire, while on the same day in 1999, 52 pilgrims were killed following a crowd crush during their return after witnessing the Makara Jyothi at Pamba. [2]
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.
10 September 1961 1961 Italian Grand Prix: Wolfgang Von Trips and 14 spectators killed when the Formula 1 car flew into the crowd Monza, Italy 13: 12 May 1957 1957 Mille Miglia road race: driver Alfonso de Portago, his co-driver/navigator, Ed Nelson and 9 spectators were killed when they ploughed into spectators. Also includes 2 separate deaths ...
On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia). The crash resulted in the deaths of all people on board, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary-general of the United Nations, and 15 others.
The patrol of UNAMIR Belgian soldiers sent to investigate the crash site was stopped at a Presidential Guards roadblock at 9:35 pm, disarmed and sent to the airport. [18] The para-commando brigade was ordered to collect bodies from the crash site and UN peacekeepers were prevented from accessing the site. [26]