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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.
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.
Replaced by former SNL cast member Darrell Hammond. Joan Rivers: Host Fashion Police: 2014-09-04 Anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest 5 Replaced by Kathy Griffin, and later by NeNe Leakes and Margaret Cho. Bubbe Arthur: 2 19 Character killed off in the season 25 episode "Listen Up!". Carol Ann Susi: Debbie Wolowitz The Big Bang Theory ...
Ben Cauley survived the crash and James Alexander was not on the plane. Also on board and killed was soul singer Otis Redding. Beechcraft Model 18: Lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Cause undetermined Chase: United States 1974 Four of eight band members were killed (Bill Chase, Walter Clark, John Emma and Wally Yohn) Piper Twin ...
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.
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.
Two of the 15 on board were killed on impact and the pilot died of his injuries one day later. October 2 – An Air Union Blériot 155 crashed at Leigh, Kent, England, after the aircraft caught fire in mid-air during an attempted emergency landing at Penshurst Airfield, killing all seven on board; this was the first in-flight fire to occur on ...
David Cunningham Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality.He was the founding host and anchor of NBC's Today from 1952 to 1961. His easygoing and relaxing style belied a lifelong battle with depression. [1]