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A Fuse Pin

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Caryn

Statistically, flying is a far safer mode of travel than driving. The reason people think don’t know that is that when there is an air accident, it is big news, and many automobile accidents go virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless, there is … Continue reading →

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Should Have Taken The Train

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Caryn

Carole Lombard was a fierce patriot, and knew that her actor husband, Clark Gable wanted to get into the war. Lombard knew that Clark Gable was officer material. Still, at the time, he had other obligations, so he waited. That wait came to an end, a few months after Lombard was killed on January 16, 1942, Continue reading →

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A Serious Lack Of Planning

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Caryn

Many people have heard about the 1970 plane crash that killed the Marshall University football team, but what many people may not know is that the Marshall University crash was not the only crash that year, or even the first crash involving a football team. The first one involved the Wichita Stake Shockers football team. Continue reading →

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The Wrong Place

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Caryn

I don’t personally believe in luck, but some people have an uncanny knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Frane Selak, a native Croatian, was one of those people. In 1962, he was traveling from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik by train, Continue reading →

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The Nevada Triangle

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Caryn

I think we have all heard of the Bermuda Triangle, where planes and ships have mysteriously gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean for decades, but most people are not aware that there is a similar place in Alaska and one in Nevada. The Nevada Triangle lies in a region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Nevada and California. Continue reading →

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Without Photography

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Caryn

Imagine, if you can these days, a world without photography. Cameras are almost always at our fingertips now. We don’t need to carry a camera with us, we have our phones, Continue reading →

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Nothing Short Of Spectacular

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Caryn

Sometimes we see a picture that looks so far-fetched that we assume that we are looking at a picture that has been photoshopped, and sometimes we are. Nevertheless, some pictures, unbelievable as they may seem Continue reading →

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Retired Flight Number

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Caryn

Mistakes happen, but when they are on an airplane, the result is often disastrous. Unless they are terrorists, no pilot wants to make that fatal mistake, because after all Continue reading →

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Incredibly Sad

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Caryn

Usually, when a plane crashes, there are signs of the crash, a mayday hail, and the signal from the locator beacon to bring help to the downed plane, to find it’s remains and the people in it, alive or dead, … Continue reading →

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Premonition

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Caryn

Years ago, I watched a movie about the survivors of a Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes Mountains. The crash and the survival amazed me, because against all odds Continue reading →

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