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* 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
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According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.
The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).
* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
1996 and Airlines
* 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.
* 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
In 1996, running back Rodney Culver and his wife, Karen, were killed in the crash of ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades.
Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.
* On 17 July 1996 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747 – 131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, killing 230.
Virgin acquired European short-haul airline Euro Belgian Airlines in 1996 and renamed it Virgin Express.
The airline reverted back to its abbreviated English brand name Saudia ( used from 1972 to 1996 ) from Saudi Arabian Airlines ( historic name in use until 1971 and reintroduced in 1997 ) on 29 May 2012, the name was changed to celebrate the company's entry into the SkyTeam airline alliance on that day, and it was a part of a larger rebranding initiative.
* Hokkaido International Airlines, a Japanese low-cost airline with IATA designator HD established in 1996
However, 1996 saw the beginning of Continental Airlines flying between Dublin, Shannon and Newark, New Jersey.
Trans Australia Airlines or TAA, ( renamed Australian Airlines in 1986 ) was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946 and its sale to Qantas in May 1996.
Qantas acquired Australian Airlines in September 1992, in preparation for its closure on 30 April 1996.
On November 1, 1996, Kevin Benson, then president and CEO, unveiled a restructuring strategy to improve the profitability of Canadian Airlines.
Chartered Boeing 747s ( United Airlines ) have also visited, as has an Airbus A340 during the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to the nearby Biltmore Estate in 1996.
Travelocity was created in 1996 as a subsidiary of Sabre Holdings, itself a subsidiary of American Airlines, and was run by long-time Sabre I. T.
Zuabi and several senior Ministers were officially accused of receiving illegal commissions of the order of US $ 124 million in relation to the purchase of six Airbus 320-200 passenger jets for Syrian Arab Airlines in 1996.
Skymark Airlines was established in 1996 as an open sky domestic airline after deregulation of the Japanese airline industry, and started operations on 19 September 1998.
Hokkaido International Airlines was founded in 1996 by, a poultry farmer in Hokkaidō, shortly after the Japanese government approved a domestic airline deregulation policy that would allow carriers to freely set fares on domestic routes.
It opened on June 14, 1996, and is a station on the and lines, serving the West End Marketplace, Dallas Alley, the Dallas World Aquarium and Zoo, the Sixth Floor Museum ( in the Texas School Book Depository ), Dealey Plaza, the Old Red Courthouse with its Dallas Visitors Center and El Centro College and is within walking distance of the American Airlines Center and the rest of Victory Park.
From March 1996, Kendell Airlines offered the Capital Shuttle – a high-frequency ( up to 13 daily return flights ) service between Sydney and Canberra – on behalf of Ansett, which was followed by scheduled flights to Coffs Harbour and Ballina, which also had previously been operated by Ansett.
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