A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog.
The B-25 Mitchell bomber, with two pilots and one passenger aboard, was flying from Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. As it came into the metropolitan area on that Saturday morning, the fog was...
A Devastating Plane Crash Took Out 236 Members of the 101st Airborne
In December 1985, the 101st Airborne Division experienced its most devastating single-day loss when a passenger plane carrying 236 of its members crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander International Airport in Newfoundland. The tragedy stands as one of the deadliest days in US Army history and...
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, in her Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft and flew for almost 15 hours to Derry, Northern Ireland. In doing so, she became the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Almost three years later, she was the first to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland,...