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May 29, 1947
On May 29, 1947, united Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43. Moses Blah, Jerzy Stuhr, James Woods would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · May 29, 1947
United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43.
United Air Lines Flight 521 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by a Douglas DC-4 from LaGuardia Airport, New York City, United States, to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. On May 29, 1947, while attempting to take off on runway 18, the aircraft failed to get airborne, overran the end of the runway, ripped through an airport fence onto traffic on the Grand Central Parkway, and slammed into an embankment, ultimately plunging into a pond and exploding. Ten people escaped the flaming wreckage; only five of them survived.
Around 1947
The year in brief
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
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On May 29, 1947
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1947 United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43. 1947 aviation accident over the United States
United Air Lines Flight 521 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by a Douglas DC-4 from LaGuardia Airport, New York City, United States, to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. On May 29, 1947, while attempting to take off on runway 18, the aircraft failed to get airborne, overran the end of the runway, ripped through an airport fence onto traffic on the Grand Central Parkway, and slammed into an embankment, ultimately plunging into a pond and exploding. Ten people escaped the flaming wreckage; only five of them survived.
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Other moments from 1947
- April 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
- April 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
- April 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
- April 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- April 18 The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.
- April 28 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
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