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unusual facts about Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport



Baron Aviation Services

November 16, 1991: A Cessna 208 Caravan leased from FedEx, departed on a cargo flight from Memphis en route to Destin when it plunged into Choctawhatchee Bay 2 miles NE of the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport while approaching for a landing.

Florida Taj Mahal scandal

Ray Sansom along with Bob Richburg, former president of Northwest Florida State College, and Jay Odom, a Destin businessman and a major Republican contributor were indicted by a grand jury in April 2009.

Michel Jeury

He began writing science fiction under the pseudonym of Albert Higon and penned two space operas for the Rayon Fantastique imprint of publishers Hachette and Gallimard: Aux Étoiles du Destin Destiny's Stars (1960), featuring a cosmic battle between the alien races: the T’Loons and the incomprehensible Glutons, and La Machine du Pouvoir The Machine Of Power (1960), which won the 1960 Jules Verne Award.

Sandra Laugier

R.W. Emerson, Essais : Histoire, Destin, Expérience, Compensation (with C. Fournier), Paris, Michel Houdiard éditeur, 2005.


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