Disaster● Low41m ago · Nov 12, 2026, 6:20 AM
“What the hell have we gotten ourselves into?”
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Welt · Germany · North America
Just two months after 9/11, another passenger plane crashed in New York on November 12, 2001. But this time it was not a terrorist attack, but a chain of unfortunate circumstances. 260 people on board and five on the ground died.
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