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Flight 5191 copilot and sole survivor talks about crash
WKYT
"There are a lot of why questions that are not answered and will probably never get answered," said Jim Polehinke, the first officer and sole survivor of the crash of Comair flight 5191. In the more than five and a half years since the crash that ...

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Sky News
Curse Of Kennedys: Story Of Personal Tragedy
Sky News
They both died in a plane crash that year The Kennedy family has had more than its fair share of tragedy since it first came to political prominence when patriarch Joseph Kennedy became US ambassador to Britain in 1937. :: 1941 Their eldest daughter, ...

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Lexington Herald Leader
Comair 5191 crash's surviving copilot speaks in documentary film
Lexington Herald Leader
By Josh Kegley — jkegley@herald-leader.com Jim Polehinke and his wife, Ida, will tell their story in Sole Survivor, an upcoming documentary about survivors of mass-casualty plane crashes. Polehinke was the copilot of Comair Flight 5191, which crashed ...

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New York Times
Evelyn B. Johnson, Pilot and Instructor, Dies at 102
New York Times
Had she been able to fly after she developed glaucoma and her leg was amputated after an auto accident in 2006, Mrs. Johnson might have done just that. As it was, she continued to manage a local airport beyond the age of 100.

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White supremacist to be sentenced in Ariz. bombing
KTUL (blog)
More >> A pilot was released early Tuesday from a hospital after suffering minor injuries when his single-engine plane crashed into a neighborhood, downing power lines but avoiding homes, authorities said. No one on the ground was.

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Curse Of Kennedys: Story Of Personal Tragedy
Eagle Radio
1944 Rose and Jo's eldest son, Joseph Jr, dies in a plane crash over the Channel. He was 29. :: 1948 Kathleen, the widow of William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, dies in a plane crash in France, aged 28. Her husband had been killed in World ...

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Evelyn Bryan Johnson, pilot who set records, dies at 102
MyrtleBeachOnline.com
Had she been able to fly after she developed glaucoma and her leg was amputated after an auto accident in 2006, Johnson might have done just that. As it was, she continued to manage a local airport beyond the age of 100. She taught 5000 student pilots ...

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Salon
The state Department of Natural Resources says two boats crashed about 1:45 am Saturday in the O'Connell Slough area of the river, near Burlington. One of the boats was carrying 11 people; the other had a single passenger. Authorities say four people ...

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Paul Simon Plays Intimate Show At Turkana Basin Institute Fundraiser
Huffington Post
In his speech, Leakey -- whose legs were amputated after a 1993 plane crash that some believe was orchestrated by his foes in the poaching underworld -- explained how the genetic record shows that all modern humans emerged from the Turkana Basin area ...

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Trauma center drama
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Nicole Fox cares for a car crash victim, while trauma staff (right) assess an injured man. / PHOTOS BY Chris LaChall Courier-Post CAMDEN — Gunshots are fired on a Camden street corner. An elderly woman slips and falls inside a Salem County drugstore.

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