But air travel only became so reliable because previous accidents ushered in crucial safety improvements. From midair collisions, to onboard fires, and a fatigued fuselage that turned a plane into a high-altitude convertible, these 13 famous airplane crashes triggered major technological advances in ...
200 square kilometers, about the size of Wisconsin. That single heat-and-storm system killed almost 17,000 people, more people than all the worldwide airplane crashes in the past 15 years.
He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and assigned to Gemini 9, but died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight. He is memorialized on the Space Mirror Memorial, The Astronaut Monument, and the Fallen Astronaut memorial plaque, placed on the Moon during the ...
Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food or drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a ...
ISLANDS in the world are famous for different things. But Hawaii is special for its variety of features. Beautiful sandy beaches, active volcanoes, a great canyon and special history and culture add up to create its famously romantic atmosphere. Formed
“I’m gonna go achieve something and make my name in the history books,” it was the sense of duty, the sense of other people, that “I should get out of bed for others, because people in this Empire are counting on me.” And if you’re at home with the wife and kids and ...
(captured by Robert W. Madden) shows a plane crash. The caption reads: “Buffeted by crosswinds, a rescue plane crashes into a truck, while trying to land on a mountain highway near Sanarate. Miraculously no one suffered serious injury.” Sanarate is the largest city in the El Progreso...
These tragedies triggered major technological advances in flight safety that keep air travel routine today. These are the plane crashes that changed aviation.