Secretary-General António Guterres marked the 60th anniversary of the death of his predecessor Dag Hammarskjold, who was killed in a mysterious plane crash in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, on Sept. 18, 1961, by laying a wreath alongside the names of other fallen U.N. staffers.
But the report concluded Barnes' communication with controllers was clear and didn't suggest any impairment at that moment. The NTSB attributed the probable cause of the accident to the pilot's “failure to maintain control of the airplane for undetermined reasons during the descent to the destination airport.”
The crash resulted in the deaths of all people onboard including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others. Hammarskjöld had been en route to cease-fire negotiations with Moise Tshombe during the Congo Crisis....1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash.AccidentFatalities16Survivors0 (initially, 1)14 more rows
Dean ManuelReeves's body was identified from a driver's license taken from the wreckage. The other victim was believed to be Mr. Reeves's pianist and road manager, Dean Manuel, 30. The plane crashed Friday night on a return trip from Batesville, Ark.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he was killed in a plane accident while on a peace mission in the Congo.
Hammarskjöld's most notable achievements while serving as the world's top international civil servant include restructuring of the UN to make it more effective, creating the basis for UN peacekeeping operations, and successfully implementing his “preventive diplomacy” in crises from the Middle East to China.
António GuterresAntónio Guterres is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is the ninth Secretary-General, his term began 1 January 2017. The list of Secretaries-General, with the date of their term in office, is: Trygve Lie, from Norway, 1946-1952.
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Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash.
Barnes and his niece, Elizabeth, were traveling to Buffalo from Manchester, N.H. when their single-engine plane crashed off Boyce Road in Pembroke, just outside the village of Corfu, Oct. 2, 2020. According to the report, Barnes reported he had lost control, but then said everything was OK.
The crash near Corfu, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of Buffalo, killed Steve Barnes and his niece, Elizabeth Barnes. Stephen Barnes was half of Cellino & Barnes, a firm known for its catchy TV jingle.
The plane, which was carrying 29 passengers and 6 crew members, had been carrying Brown and his entourage on a three-day economic tour of the Balkans when it hit rough weather near Dubrovnik.
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They said the bad weather forced the pilot to take the plane through dense fog and thunderstorms, off its original path over the Adriatic, and through a treacherous valley.
On April 3, 1996, a United States Air Force Boeing CT-43A (Flight IFO-21) crashed on approach to Dubrovnik, Croatia, while on an official trade mission.The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 originally built as T-43A navigational trainer and later converted into a CT-43A executive transport aircraft, was carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people.
Capt. Ashley Davis of the Air Force and his co-pilot, Capt. Tim Schafer, had good reasons to forget about trying to land in the pouring rain at Dubrovnik, Croatia, on the afternoon of April 3.
C-130 military transport carrying Secret Service agent and Air Force crew of eight crashes into mountain minutes after taking off from Jackson Hole, Wyo, killing all aboard; was transporting agent ...
U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. Ron Brown and 34 others were killed in the crash. | AP Photo.
On this day in 1996, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed, along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43 plane crashed into a mountainside near Dubrovnik, Croatia. An Air Force inquiry blamed the crash on pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.
As chairman, Brown played a pivotal role in securing Clinton’s election victory in 1992, paving the way for the first Democratic administration in 12 years. After his death, Clinton established the Ron Brown Award for corporate leadership and responsibility. The Conference Board continues to administer the privately funded award.
In 1976, Danforth was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Ashcroft was elected to replace him as State Attorney General. He was sworn in on December 27, 1976. In 1980, Ashcroft was re-elected with 64.5 percent of the vote, winning 96 of Missouri's 114 counties.
After the primary, Missouri Governor Kit Bond appointed Ashcroft to the office of State Auditor, which Bond had vacated when he became governor.
In the midst of a tight race, Carnahan died in an airplane crash three weeks prior to the election. Ashcroft suspended all campaigning after the plane crash. Because of Missouri state election laws and the short time to election, Carnahan's name remained on the ballot.
Ashcroft previously served as Attorney General of Missouri (1976–1985), and as the 50th Governor of Missouri (1985–1993), having been elected for two consecutive terms in succession (a historical first for a Republican candidate in the state), and he also served as a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001).
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, songwriter and former politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General (2001–2005), in the George W. Bush Administration. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.
Barnes was reportedly the pilot of a plane that went down in western New York on Friday.
The plane that went down in the woods was registered to a corporation that shares an address with Cellino & Barnes. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating the cause of the crash and that a report would be released in 7 to 10 days.
NBC New York reported that a single-engine Socata TBM-700 traveling from Manchester, New Hampshire crashed at about 11:45 a.m. in a wooded area near Pembroke, New York. Genesee County Sheriff William Sheron told reporters that a man and a woman were killed and that there were no survivors. Barnes was a registered pilot and he is believed to have been the pilot of the small plane.
Ross Cellino, Barnes' longtime partner, said in a statement, "It is with great sadness that I learned of the tragic passing of Steve Barnes in a plane crash. Steve and I worked together for many years at our firm. He was always a fearless advocate for his clients. His passing is a significant loss for the legal community.
October 2, 2020 / 9:22 PM / CBS News. Steve Barnes, an iconic New York attorney known for his personal injury law firm Cellino & Barnes, died in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York, on Friday night, his former law partner Ross Cellino confirmed. Barnes' niece, Elizabeth Barnes, also died in the crash, and there were no survivors.
At a press briefing on Friday afternoon, the Genesee County Sheriff's Office said that the plane had been traveling to Buffalo from Manchester, New Hampshire, when it crashed into a wooded area in Pembroke. The last contact the plane had made was when it left at 11:18 a.m.
Prince George, Duke of Kent died in a plane crash on what should've been an uneventful flight from England to Iceland on August 25, 1942, when he was just 39 years old.
After only 32 minutes in the air, the plane crashed into the highest hillside in Scotland, Eagle's Rock, per Undiscovered Scotland and Military History. Although Prince George, Duke of Kent and most of the other men on board were killed, one survived the crash: the rear gunner, Andrew Jack. He was badly burned and in shock for about 24 hours ...
A plane crash near Greensboro, North Carolina hit too close to home on Labor Day. The three people on board the plane were from Lewisburg and were a well-known family in central Pennsylvania.
The site investigation should take about three days, but it could be months before the agency determines exactly what caused the plane crash.
The couple, along with Christy's father, died in a plane crash Monday in North Carolina.
U.S. army investigators approach the wreckage of a Air Force T-43 plane on April 6, 1996, near the Dubrovnik airport. Ron Brown and 34 others were killed in the crash. | AP Photo.
On this day in 1996, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed, along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43 plane crashed into a mountainside near Dubrovnik, Croatia. An Air Force inquiry blamed the crash on pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.
As chairman, Brown played a pivotal role in securing Clinton’s election victory in 1992, paving the way for the first Democratic administration in 12 years. After his death, Clinton established the Ron Brown Award for corporate leadership and responsibility. The Conference Board continues to administer the privately funded award.
In 1972, Ashcroft ran for a congressional seat in southwest Missouri in the Republican primary election, narrowly losing to Gene Taylor. After the primary, Missouri Governor Kit Bond appointed Ashcroft to the office of State Auditor, which Bond had vacated when he became governor.
In 1974, Ashcroft was narrowly defeated for election to that post by Jackson C…
Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Grace P. (née Larsen) and James Robert Ashcroft. The family later lived in Willard, Missouri, where his father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation in nearby Springfield, served as president of Evangel University (1958–74), and jointly as President of Central Bible College (1958–63). His mother was a homemaker, whose parents had emigrated from Norway. His paternal grandfather was an Irish immigrant.
In May 2005, Ashcroft laid the groundwork for a strategic consulting firm, The Ashcroft Group, LLC. He started operation in the fall of 2005 and as of March 2006 had twenty-one clients, turning down two for every one accepted. In 2005 year-end filings, Ashcroft's firm reported collecting $269,000, including $220,000 from Oracle Corporation, which won Department of Justice approval of a multibillion-dollar acquisition less than a month after hiring Ashcroft. The year-end filing rep…
In July 2002, Ashcroft proposed the creation of Operation TIPS, a domestic program in which workers and government employees would inform law enforcement agencies about suspicious behavior they encounter while performing their duties. The program was widely criticized from the beginning, with critics deriding the program as essentially a Domestic Informant Network …
Ashcroft is a member of the Assemblies of God church. He is married to Janet E. Ashcroft and has three children with her. His son, Jay, is the Missouri Secretary of State.
Ashcroft had long enjoyed inspirational music and singing. In the 1970s, he recorded a gospel record entitled Truth: Volume One, Edition One, with the Miss…
• Co-author with Jane E. Ashcroft, College Law for Business, textbook (10th edition, 1987)
• On My Honor: The Beliefs that Shape My Life (1998)
• Lessons From a Father to His Son (2002)
• Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
• His song, "Let the Eagle Soar", was satirically featured in Michael Moore's 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9/11 and has been frequently mocked by comedians such as David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and David Cross, to name a few.
• The song was performed at Bush's 2005 inauguration by Guy Hovis, a former cast member of The Lawrence Welk Show.