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FLIGHT WENT MISSING ON THIS DAY IN 2014

Could better tech solve mystery of Malaysia Flight 370? | CNN

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying
227 passengers and 12 crew members, lost contact with
air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from 
Kuala
Lumpur, then veers off course, disappears and
most of the plane, and everyone on board, were never 
seen again.

About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in
Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing.

Prior to the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance, it had
been flying seemingly without incident.

There were no distress signals from the plane, reports
of bad weather or technical problems.

 


In 2015, French police officers carried a piece of airplane
debris on the island of Réunion which later proved to
have been from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.


 

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 debris successfully identified by officials - CBS News
More debris from Flight 370 found.

Can US assets locate missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? | Fox News Video


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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Today in History March 4: From National Safety Day to Toru Dutt Birthday

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MIKE GRACIA

Small Comanche Plane
A plane similar to the one in which Patsy Cline died.

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PATSY CLINE Plane Crash Site - YouTube

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Patsy Cline Final Photograph
A Kansas City resident named Mildred Keith snapped what
is believed to be one of the last photographs of the country music star.

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PRISNER EXCHANGE ON THIS DAY IN 1962

Bridge of Spies - DONOVAN, ABEL and POWERS after the BRIDGE OF SPIES
Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel         Francis Gary Powers
                                                    

On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers 
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior
KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.

Glienicke Bridge Where Spies Were Exchanged

Gary Powers: The U-2 spy pilot the US did not love - BBC News
The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.

Los Angeles Morgue Files: Pilot Francis Gary Powers HELICOPTER CRASH 1977 Encino
Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)

Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for
KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.

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REMEMBERING THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

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 February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died: Photos From the Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly ... 
 
 February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died: Photos From the Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly ...

February 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died: Photos From the Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly ...

Plane Crash Site Where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & Big Bopper Died

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THE COLUMBIA DISASTER ON THIS DAY IN 2003

#OnThisDay in 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas. - AIRLIVE
Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the
sky over Tyler, Texas.

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia brook up while
entering the atmosphere over
Texas, killing all seven crew
members on board.

The Columbia‘s 28th space mission, designated STS-107, was
originally scheduled to launch on January 11, 2001, but was
delayed numerous times for a variety of reasons over nearly
two years. Columbia finally launched on January 16, 2003, with
a crew of seven. Eighty seconds into the launch, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and hit the
edge of the shuttle’s left wing.

Crew
The Space Shuttle Columbia crew, left to right. Front row:
Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool. Back row: David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson and Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. (
AP file)

Space Shuttle Columbia anniversary: How the NASA tragedy began the private space age of SpaceX ...
The crew of the space shuttle Columbia on the day of launch.

Watch The Final Moments Of The Columbia Disaster That Killed Kalpana Chawla And 6 Other Astronauts

Accident investigators reconstructed space shuttle Columbia from recovered debris.
Accident investigators reconstructed space shuttle Columbia from recovered debris.

US SPACE PROGRAM / SPACE SHUTTLE | WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

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