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August 24, 2001; An Airbus A330-243registered as C-GITS operated by Air Transat as Flight TS 236 took off from Toronto at 00:52 (UTC) (local time: 20:52 (ET) on a direct flight to Lisbon Portugal with 293 passengers and thirteen crew....
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On the morning of December 22nd, 1986, in Fargo, North Dakota, a four-month-old named Michael McCann passed away. His parents, Steven and Karen McCann, overwhelmed by their loss, made the remarkably courageous decision to pass a gift of life to...
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On August 18th, 1941, based at No. 53 OTU. John Gillespie Magee had launched on his seventh flight in a Spitfire Mk I, and climbed to an altitude of 33,000 feet. There, as he orbited high above the clouds, he...
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Lt. Col. Jacqueline Cochran, born May 11, 1906, Pensacola, Fla.In the 1930s, Cochran accepted an offer from a friend to go up for an airplane ride, and it seems that was all it took. Soon afterward, Jackie began taking flying...
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Richard Ira Bong was a United States Army Air Forces Major and Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and top flying ace during the second world war. Bong was credited with shooting down...
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