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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 2001

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The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in
human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including
2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide.

Thousands more were injured, and long-term health effects have
arisen as a consequence of the attacks.
New York City took the
brunt of the death toll when the Twin Towers of the
World Trade
Center
complex in Lower Manhattan were attacked, with an
estimated 1,600 victims from the
North Tower and around a
thousand from the
South Tower.

Two hundred miles southwest in Arlington County, Virginia,
another 125 were killed in
the Pentagon. The remaining 265
fatalities included the ninety-two passengers and crew of
American Airlines Flight 11, the sixty-five aboard United
Airlines Flight 175
, the sixty-four on American Airlines Flight
77
and the forty-four who boarded United Airlines Flight 93.

The attack on the World Trade Center’s North Tower alone
made the September 11 attacks the deadliest act of terrorism
in human history.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Explosion following the crash of Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center

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RACING LEGEND HAS DIED IN PLANE CRASH

Scott Bloomquist looks on

Scott Bloomquist, a Dirt Late Model racing legend and Hall of
Famer, was tragically killed in a small plane crash near his
home in Mooresburg, Tennessee early Friday morning. He
was 60.
 

Scott Bloomquist during practice for the 16th Annual Grassy Smith Memorial 50-lap Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series event at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina in 2014.  
Scott Bloomquist during practice for the 16th Annual Grassy Smith Memorial 50-lap Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series
event at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina
in 2014.
 
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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING HIT BY AIRCRAFT

Historic Vids's tweet - "Photo of the Empire State Building after a bomber plane crashed into it ...

On Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United
States Army Air Forces
crashed into the north side of the Empire
State Building
in New York City while flying in thick fog.

The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people
in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.

The building’s structural integrity was not compromised.

12 Dramatic Photos Of The Empire State Building Plane Crash

The B-25 Empire State Building Crash: Tragedy on 34th Street

A b-25 bomber crashes into the empire state building on the morning of july 28, 1945. photograph ...

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“I BELIEVE WE’VE HAD A PROBLEM HERE”

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Apollo13 – view of the crippled Service Module after
separation.
     
     
     
     
 

On April 13, 1970, disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth
when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up on
Apollo 13, the third
manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts James A. Lovell,
John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left Earth
two days
before
for the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon but were
forced to turn their attention to simply making it home alive.

A routine stir of an oxygen tank ignited damaged wire
insulation inside it, causing an explosion that vented the
contents of both of the SM’s oxygen tanks to space.

Without oxygen, needed for breathing and for generating
electric power, the SM’s propulsion and life support systems
could not operate. The CM’s systems had to be shut down
to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the
crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing
canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home
alive.

     

      
  'Moonikin' manikin to be launched on NASA'S Artemis test flight | Daily Mail Online   
       
         
         
         
       

Apollo 13 - masslive.com

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Apollo 13

At NASA Mission Control in Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, left, director of flight
crew operations, holds lithium hydroxide canisters attached
to a hose, a makeshift repair to reduce the dangerous levels
of carbon dioxide aboard the crippled spacecraft Apollo 13.

3 1970 headline newspapers APOLLO 13 return safely to earth after space accident

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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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