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Glenda McKay

Glenda's brother Craig McKay also starred alongside her in Emmerdale as her screen brother Mark Hughes (who was killed off in the air crash episode that was aired on 31 December 1993).

Urban the Ninth

A Catholic comic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I (successor of Leo XIV and Pius XIII) dies in an air crash.


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1986 Aerovías Guatemala air crash

The 1986 Aerovías Guatemala air crash occurred on 18 January 1986 and involved a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III that crashed into a hill on approach to Santa Elena Airport, Flores, Guatemala after a short flight from Guatemala City's La Aurora International Airport.

Barbara Boggs Sigmund

Barbara Boggs Sigmund (May 27, 1939 – October 10, 1990) was a daughter of the powerful Democratic United States Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Lindy Boggs, who became a Congresswoman from Louisiana after her husband Hale died in an air crash.

Bass Strait Triangle

Macarthur Job, Air Crash, Volume One, Aerospace Publications, Canberra, 1991, ISBN 1-875671-11-0

Carl Ben Eielson

Eielson died alongside his mechanic Earl Borland in an air crash on November 9, 1929, in Siberia while attempting to evacuate furs and personnel from the Nanuk, a cargo vessel trapped in the ice at North Cape (Mys Schmidt on today's maps).

Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101

The story of the disaster was featured on the ninth season of Canadian National Geographic Channel show Mayday (known as Air Emergency in the US, Mayday in Ireland and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and the rest of world).

Gimli Glider

Mayday (TV series) (AKA Air Emergency, Air Crash Investigation), incident covered in season 5 episode 2.

Linlyn Lue

Laura T. Kayama in "Fire Fight" of Mayday (Air Crash Investigation or Air Emergency) - Kayama served as a flight attendant on Air Canada Flight 797

Morven, Caithness

Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of King George, died in an air crash on a hillside near Morven on 25 August 1942 while serving in the Royal Air Force.

Nöel Mason-MacFarlane

He was Governor of Gibraltar from 31 May 1942 to 14 February 1944, and witnessed the air crash there on 4 July 1943 which took the life of his friend the Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski.

Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145

In January 2009 Dr. Harold Demuren, the director general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), said that the families of the air crash victims would be compensated and that Sosoliso had already paid 2.3 million U.S. dollars into an escrow account to compensate the families.