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January 28, 2002

On January 28, 2002, tAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94. The year's #1 song was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback. Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karl Hein, Sadie Sink would arrive in the same year.

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2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.

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What happened

On January 28, 2002

  1. 2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.

    2002 plane crash near Ipiales, Colombia

    TAME Flight 120 was a Boeing 727-134 airliner, registration HC-BLF, named El Oro, operating as a scheduled international passenger flight between Quito, Ecuador and Cali, Colombia, with a scheduled stopover at the Ecuadorian border town of Tulcán. The aircraft crashed while on approach to Tulcán's Teniente Coronel Luis A. Mantilla International Airport on January 28, 2002.

Arrivals

Born on January 28, 2002

Tabyana Ali 2002– American actress and author (born 2002)
Yoo Seon-ho 2002– South Korean actor (born 2002)

Farewells

Died on January 28, 2002

Gustaaf Deloor Belgian cyclist
Astrid Lindgren Swedish children's writer (1907–2002)
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Author, publisher, human rights activist (1946–2002)

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Others born in 2002

Jake Fraser-McGurk 2002– Australian cricketer
Karl Hein 2002– Estonian footballer
Sadie Sink 2002– American actress
Loren Gray 2002– American singer and internet personality
Emma Myers 2002– American actress
Anthony Elanga 2002– Swedish footballer

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