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By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
The pilot who deliberately nose-dived the plane was suffering from mental illness before the incident. Wreckage of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the worst single aircraft crash in history Japan Airlines Flight 123 – Flight 123 was flying over Japan when part of its vertical stabilizer detached, causing some hydraulic loss which led to losing ...
The Prizren Incident was a confrontation between German Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops advancing into Kosovo and stragglers from the withdrawing Yugoslav Army. The shootout took place in the city of Prizren , on 13 June 1999.
When they stopped at a taxiway stop-marking, and correctly reported its identifier, S4, the ground controller disregarded this identification because it was not on his maps and was unknown to him. Motion sensing runway incursion alarms were present, but had been deactivated to prevent false alarms from ground vehicles or animals.
In 1997 one of the surveyors provided the coordinates [8] to two distinct expeditions, one American and one led by the Canadian Department of National Defence, seeking to conduct an environmental analysis of the site. Both expeditions reached the wreck around the same time, and members were apparently the first humans to set foot in the area ...
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. [3] The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S. Department of Defense summary, [4] and after Fort Meade's 28th Ordnance Detachment secured them, [5] the ...
Incident at Map Grid 36-80 (Russian: Случай в квадрате 36-80, romanized: Sluchay v kvadrate 36-80) is a 1982 Soviet military action movie by Mikhail Tumanishvili. The total number of Soviet viewers was estimated at 33,100,000 people.
The 1986 Bangladesh MV Shamia ferry incident refers to one of the worst maritime disasters in human history [2] that occurred on 25 May 1986 on the Meghna River in Bangladesh, killing 600 passengers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The incident occurred when the overloaded MV Shamia , a two-decker merchant ship ferry, sank while carrying about 1,000 - 1,500 people ...