Tag: commercial aviation tragedy
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This Day 79 Years Ago: The United Flight That Never Left The Ground – America’s Deadliest Air Disaster Lasted Only Seconds
On May 29, 1947, what should have been a routine evening departure from New York’s LaGuardia Airport turned into one of the most horrifying disasters in early aviation history. United Air Lines Flight 521 crash claimed 43 lives after a Douglas DC-4 failed to take off, tore through an airport fence, crossed a busy highway,…
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