Thanks to Bob P.
1. “American Airlines Flight 587. It was an Airbus A300 that crashed in Queens, NY, two months after 9/11. It was the second-deadliest aviation accident in US history, and not well remembered.”
2. “Air Transat Flight 236. The plane was flying from Toronto to Lisbon, ran out of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic, and glided 75 miles to an airport in the Azores and safely landed. The longest glide of a passenger airliner. It happened three weeks before 9/11.”
3. “George W. Bush issued an executive order banning federal funding for research on any new embryonic stem cell lines going forward. He interrupted evening TV and gave a live address to the nation to announce it on August 9th. His next address to the nation was on September 11th.”
4. “Congressman Gary Condit admitted to having an affair with Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern, who had gone missing and was later found murdered.”
5. “A paraglider accidentally entangled himself on the torch of the Statue of Liberty.”
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