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Fourteen members of the 1977–78 Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team died in a plane crash on December 13, 1977, along with fifteen others including head coach Bobby Watson. The players killed were: Seniors: Kevin Kingston, John Ed Washington, and Marion Anthony “Tony” Windburn; Juniors: Stephen Miller and Bryan Taylor
Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, were all killed in a crash shortly after takeoff from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later. 16 March 1978
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
Two people sustained minor injuries as a small Halla Airlines passenger plane crash-landed at an airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
29 people survived the Azerbaijan crash in Kazakhstan, and 38 people died. Two flight attendants seated in the tail section of the Jeju plane that crashed in South Korea lived, while the 179 ...
On 8 December 2011, the Somalia women's national basketball team had a 90–24 loss to the Egypt women's national basketball team in the Pan Arab Games at Doha. [4] [5] The Somali team trained at the Mogadishu Police Academy. Despite being the second most popular sport in Somalia, women's participation in basketball was opposed by some.
A pilot known for rescuing shelter dogs was killed when a small plane crashed in the Catskills as he was transporting ... and a cone on his head as he recovered from the crash. Whiskey, a Labrador ...
The aircraft was destroyed. The three crew survived but two people were killed on the ground. [117] 4 June – British Midland Airways Canadair C-4 Argonaut G-ALHG crashed at Stockport, Cheshire whils on approach to Ringway Airport, Manchester, Lancashire following fuel starvation. Seventy-two of the 84 people on board were killed.