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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.
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.
Women and girls between 10 and 50 years of age were legally banned from entering Sabarimala from 1991 to 2018. Sabarimala Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shasta, in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. [1] Women and girls of reproductive age have traditionally not been permitted to worship there, as Shasta is a celibate deity. [2]
(The lone heroes in this story were the high schoolers who recognized Zapeta-Calil later in the day, at the Jay Street-Metrotech station, and called police.) Not too long ago, an atrocity like ...
Between 1915 and 1920, a Copenhagen woman, Dagmar Overbye, offered to take on unwanted babies for a fee, telling the mothers they were going to a good home. Instead, she murdered them.
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.
Merrill Womach (February 7, 1927 – December 28, 2014) was an American undertaker, organist and gospel singer, notable both for founding National Music Service (now Global Distribution Network, Inc. [1]), which provided recorded music to funeral homes across America, and for surviving a Thursday, November 23, 1961 plane crash in Beaver Marsh, Oregon that left him disfigured with third degree ...
Civilian victims were Mrs. Andrew L. Clark, 62, who was alone in her home at 211 Colonial Court, where a major portion of the plane fell, and James LaRoy Hollabaugh, 29, adopted son of Mrs. Agnes Nilsson Grove of 1920 Maryland Avenue. Both of those houses were destroyed by fire but Mrs. Grove escaped with burns on her feet and abrasions on her ...