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  2. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Wikipedia

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    Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College ), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.

  3. 2024 Lumut mid-air collision - Wikipedia

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    On the morning of 23 April 2024 at 09:23 (UTC+8), two Royal Malaysian Navy helicopters - an Agusta Westland AW139 and a Eurocopter Fennec, collided over the Malaysian town of Lumut during a military parade rehearsal celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy.

  4. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

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    Great Recession. The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. [1] [2] The crisis led to a severe economic recession, with millions of people losing their jobs and many businesses going bankrupt.

  5. Crash (Ballard novel) - Wikipedia

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    Crash (Ballard novel) Crash. (Ballard novel) Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. It follows a group of car-crash fetishists who become sexually aroused by staging and participating in car accidents, inspired by the famous crashes of celebrities.

  6. Roswell incident - Wikipedia

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    33°57′01″N 105°18′51″W. /  33.95028°N 105.31417°W  / 33.95028; -105.31417. The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon, near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the ...

  7. South African Airways Flight 295 - Wikipedia

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    0. South African Airways Flight 295 ( SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Plaisance Airport, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius. On 28 November 1987, the aircraft serving the flight, a ...

  8. Air France Flight 4590 - Wikipedia

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    Air France Flight 4590. /  48.98556°N 2.47222°E  / 48.98556; 2.47222. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27 ...

  9. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 - Wikipedia

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    The crash site is located at an elevation of 3,570 metres (11,710 ft) in the remote Andes mountains of western Argentina, just east of the border with Chile. Search and rescue aircraft overflew the crash site several times during the following days, but failed to see the white fuselage against the snow. Search efforts were called off after ...