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The Wingfoot Air Express was an early Goodyear blimp that caught fire and crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago on July 21, 1919. The Type FD airship, manufactured and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, was transporting passengers from Grant Park to the White City amusement park. [1]
On 28 August 1969, Director Robert Sparr was killed in a plane crash while scouting filming locations with cameraman Gerald Finnerman. The single-engine plane they were riding in went down near the Brush Hollow Reservoir outside of Penrose, Colorado. The pilot was also killed in the crash, but Finnerman survived.
Navy Lieutenant Michael Curtin was killed. [126] The accident was caught on film. August 12 – (Glenview, Illinois) – Avro Vulcan B2 registration XL390 of 617 Squadron Royal Air Force crashed during an air display at Naval Air Station Glenview, just north of Chicago. All four Royal Air Force crew members were killed.
A post shared on social media purportedly shows an image of a recent massive traffic accident that left 135 people dead. Verdict: False The image is from a 2021 building fire. Fact Check: The ...
The claim: Image shows bus crash that killed at least 135 people in December 2024. A Dec. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows vehicles parked in a grassy field and billows of smoke ...
Five people, including three young children, have been killed in western Illinois after a school bus collided with another vehicle, authorities have said.. The incident occurred on a highway near ...
1976 Beckemeyer train accident; 2023 Chicago train crash; B. 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash; C. 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash; 1977 Chicago Loop ...
Authorities have identified the five people killed in a fiery collision between a school bus and semitruck on a highway in rural Illinois, including a young brother and sister, another 3-year-old ...