Paradise Airlines Flight 901A was a passenger flight from San Jose
Municipal Airport to Tahoe Valley Airport in the United States. On
March 1, 1964, the Lockheed L-049 Constellation (example pictured)
serving the flight crashed near Genoa Peak, on the eastern side of Lake
Tahoe, killing all 85 aboard. The cause of the accident was the pilot's
decision to attempt to land at Tahoe Valley Airport when the visibility
was too low. After aborting the attempt, the crew lost awareness of the
plane's location as it flew below the minimum safe altitude in
mountainous terrain. The pilot likely tried to fly through a low
mountain pass to divert to the airport in Reno, Nevada, and crashed into
a mountain near the pass. At the time, it was the second-deadliest
single-plane crash in United States history. It remains the worst
accident involving the Lockheed L-049 Constellation. The Federal
Aviation Administration revoked the airline's operating certificate,
causing them to permanently shut down.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Airlines_Flight_901A>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev finished his design of the
first periodic table.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table>
1921:
The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became
the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that
would not be repeated for 86 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Armstrong>
1936:
Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the
Colorado River, was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam>
1992:
Amidst tensions during the 1992 Bosnian independence
referendum, a Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo,
killing the father of the groom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_wedding_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
barrel of monkeys:
(idiomatic, informal) Someone or something very amusing or funny, fun,
mischievous, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barrel_of_monkeys>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent
testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
Almost all the regimes which did not place Man and the sanctity of Life
at the heart of their world view, all those regimes have collapsed and
are no more. You can see it for yourselves in our own day.
--Yitzhak Rabin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin>