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  2. Władysław Sikorski's death controversy - Wikipedia

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    Polish aviation expert Jerzy Maryniaki created a simulation of the crash, in which he concluded that the plane must have been under control up until the very moment of the crash. [37] Kisielewski argues that the plane was likely under the control of the second pilot, who died in the crash.

  3. List of heads of state and government who died in aviation ...

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    Leader of the Military Junta of Mauritania: 27 January 1979 Dakar Senegal: Airplane accident de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (1940–1981) Jaime Roldós Aguilera [3] [1] President of Ecuador: 24 May 1981 Huairapungo Ecuador: Airplane accident Beechcraft Super King Air (1929–1981) Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera [3] [1] Military Leader of ...

  4. Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

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    Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats.She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash.

  5. Continental Express Flight 2574 - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Department of Public Safety announced that rescue units had discovered no survivors. [7] The wreckage was spread over a 2- to 4-square-mile (10 km 2) area, and some pieces fell into the Colorado River. [8] Diamonds worth approximately $500,000 (1991 value; $1,100,000 [9] in 2023) were discovered in the wreckage, but they had no role ...

  6. 1964 T-39 shootdown incident - Wikipedia

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    At 19:15 hours, the chief of the USMLM met with his Soviet counterpart to request help in finding the plane and rescuing survivors (in accordance with the Huebner–Malinin Agreement). [2] At 20:00 hours, a second search team left Berlin. About this same time, the first team arrived at the crash site, 20 kilometers (12 mi) north of Erfurt.

  7. Viktor Lutze - Wikipedia

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    Viktor Lutze (28 December 1890 – 2 May 1943) was a German Nazi Party functionary and the commander of the Sturmabteilung ("SA") who succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef and Reichsleiter. After he died from injuries received in a car accident, Lutze was given an elaborate state funeral in Berlin on 7 May 1943.

  8. Temecula massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Temecula massacre took place in December 1846 east of present-day Temecula, California, United States. It was part of a series of related events in the Mexican–American War . A combined force of Californio militia and Cahuilla Indians attacked and killed an estimated 33 to 40 Luiseño Indians.

  9. Operation Spark (1941) - Wikipedia

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    When the crash and Hitler's death were reported, General Olbricht would use the Replacement Army to seize control in Berlin, Vienna, and Munich, and in the centres of the Wehrkreis (the German military supply system). It was an ambitious but credible plan, and might possibly have worked if Hitler had indeed been killed, although persuading Army ...