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On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border. All of the passengers and crew aboard both planes were killed, resulting in a total ...
The dead included eight children: five on American Airlines Flight 77, aged 3 to 11, [174] and three on United Airlines Flight 175, aged 2, 3, and 4. [175] The youngest victim was a two-and-a-half-year-old child on Flight 175 and the oldest was an 85-year-old passenger on Flight 11. [176]
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes ...
On July 26, 2024, a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine aircraft with seven people on board crashed near the Wyoming – Montana border, just north of Gillette, Wyoming, United States. All seven on board were killed upon impact. Three members of the gospel quartet The Nelons — vocalist Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason, and her daughter Amber ...
Todd Beamer. Todd Morgan Beamer (November 24, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an American passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. He was one of the passengers who attempted to regain control of the aircraft from the hijackers. During the struggle, the Boeing 757 ...
President Joe Biden recalled the car crash that killed in wife and daughter in 1972, while meeting with Israeli first responders.. Mr Biden, 80, brought up the tragedy during a visit to Tel Aviv ...
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [ 1] (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. [ 2][ 3] The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog while Pan Am Flight 1736 was still on the runway.
Christian Oliver's wife, Jessica Klepser, is speaking out for the first time about the tragic plane crash that took her husband's life and their two young daughters, Madita Klepser, 10, and Annik ...