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| At 7:30 P.M. on February 14, 1961, the Sabena Flight 548 bound for Brussels took off from New 66 Unit 4 Calamities and Rescues ork City. The plane fl ew across the Atlantic smoothly. But towards the end of the trip, something went wrong with the plane. During the last few minutes before the scheduled landing, the pilot lost contact with the Brussels airport. He began his approach to land, but at the last moment, he pulled the plane up. He circled the airport and prepared to try again. But, in the second try, he suddenly increased the speed and pulled the plane into a steep climb. In an instant, the plane hit the ground and exploded in a ball of fl ames. All the people on board were killed, including the 18 members of the United States fi gure skating team. |
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