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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 crash was featured by the Canadian documentary series Mayday in a Season 15, Episode 5 titled "Deadly Mission" [40] and Air Crash Investigation Special Report in a Season 3, Episode 3 titled "VIP on Board". The crash is featured in the 2016 film The Siege of Jadotville, where it is shot down by an F-4 Phantom fighter jet. [41]
February 21, 1961: Launch of Mercury-Atlas 2 Mercury-Atlas 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral in a test to check maximum heating and its effects during the worst reentry design conditions. The flight closely matched the desired trajectory and attained a maximum altitude of 114.04 statute miles and a range of 1,431.6 statute miles.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll.It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more.
Mattias Flink shot and killed five women and two men in Falun. [57] Fire: Rinkeby: 7: 25 July 2009: Shortly after 10.00 pm on 25 July 2009, a fire destroyed an apartment on the ground floor of Kuddbygränd in Rinkeby. A mother and her five daughters were killed immediately. Later a relative of the family died in the hospital. The fire had ...
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]
Madge Augustine Oberholtzer (November 10, 1896 – April 14, 1925) was an American woman whose rape and murder played a critical role in the demise of the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. In March 1925, while working for the state of Indiana on an adult literacy campaign, Oberholtzer was abducted by D. C. Stephenson , Grand Dragon of the ...
The film's crew was sued by an Ayyappa devotee for allowing actress Sudha Chandran to enter Sabarimala, at a time when women were not allowed into the temple, and argued that her presence diluted the purity of the temple. The film's director was let off, but Sudha was fined.