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WILL THE EARHART MYSTERY BE SOLVED?

Image of Earhart next to sonar picture
Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart’s wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean.

(FOX NEWS) – A South Carolina-based ocean exploration
company says it may have found the airplane that Amelia
Earhart flew on her
ill-fated 1937 expedition.

Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo, a former Air Force
intelligence officer, believes that the airplane-shaped
object that his company captured in a sonar image is
Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Earhart was trying to become the first woman to successfully
complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe when she
disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was last seen in Papua New
Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific
Ocean.

Amelia Earhart's Aircraft Believed to be Found by Unconventional Team of Experts - The Malaysian ...

Brightened sonar image of plane-shaped object
The CEO of Deep Sea Vision says he plans to return to get clearer pictures of the unknown object. (Deep Sea Vision)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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The Challenger disaster that changed NASA forever - The Hindu

How Groupthink Led to 7 Lives Lost in the Challenger Explosion - History in the Headlines
(AP)

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle
Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and
Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first
ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a
37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New
Hampshire,
won a competition that earned her a place
among the seven-member crew of the Challenger.

Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground,
including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the
shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire.

Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold
on live television. There were no survivors.

The Challenger disaster that changed NASA forever - The Hindu
The crew of the Challenger space shuttle. Front row,
from left to right, shows astronauts Mike Smith, Dick
Scobee, Ron McNair and in the rear row, from left to
right, are Ellison Onizuka, school teacher Christa
McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judith Resnik.
(NASA) 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1967

**3 Astronauts Die in (Apollo 1) Launchpad Fire-Jan. 27, 1967: Sad Day in History, page 1

A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral,
Florida, killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II,
and Roger B. Chaffee.

An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the
Apollo 1 command module was the probable cause of the fire.

The astronauts, the first Americans to die in a spacecraft, had
been participating in a simulation of the Apollo 1 launch that 
was scheduled for the following month.

Burned interior of Apollo 1 spacecraft after the fire Photo Print | eBay

Apollo 1: Death of 3 astronauts in fire on launch pad forces NASA to reassess
The Apollo 1 prime crewmembers intended for the first
manned Apollo space flight: (L to R) Edward H. White II,
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee.

                                 Life has always been Drifting Sideways: Fakta Angkasa: Apollo 1

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PLANE CRASHES INTO THE POTOMAC RIVER

Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Potomac 1982 | Aviones de pasajeros, Fotógrafo, Historia de ...

On January 13, 1982, an Air Florida Boeing 737-222 plunged into
the Potomac River
in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people. The
crash, caused by bad weather, took place only two miles from
the
White House.

The Air Florida flight took off from Washington National Airport
in Arlington,
Virginia, with 74 passengers and 5 crew members
on board. The plane had flown into Washington from Miami in
the early afternoon and was supposed to return to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, after a short stop.

However, snow in Washington temporarily closed the airport and
when it reopened, the plane was de-iced with chemical anti-freeze,
but the plane still had difficulty moving away from the gate due to
the ice. When it eventually made it to the airport’s only usable
runway, it was forced to wait 45 minutes for clearance to take
off.

Not wanting to further delay the flight, the pilot, Larry Wheaton,
did not return for more de-icing, and worse, failed to turn on the
plane’s own de-icing system.

TogetherWeServed - MCPO John Thiel

#OnThisDay in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the Potomac River after takeoff - AIRLIVE

Pin on Air Florida Crash

AIR FLORIDA Flight 90 Washington D.C. POTOMAC RIVER Disaster 1982 NYC Newspaper | eBay

Washington, DC., USA, January 16, 1982 On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into ...

#OnThisDay in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the Potomac River after takeoff - AIRLIVE

The 30th anniversary of the Air Florida plane crash - The Washington Post

The Weather Network - The cascade of negligence that led to the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash

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17 Pictures of Young Anthony Hopkins

Oscars 2022 After-Party: Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and other stars celebrate in style
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is 86 years old today.

Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two 
Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime
Emmy Awards
, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also
received the
Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA
Fellowship
for lifetime achievement in 2008.

31 Biggest Anthony Hopkins Movies, Ranked - Page 8 of 8 - 24/7 Tempo

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Reqzone.com
1991

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