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Some 200 People Feared Dead in Migrant Boat Capsize in Mediterranean
2015-08-07
[WSJ] Rescue workers searched the sea on Thursday after a fishing boat carrying as many as 600 migrants, including children, capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving some 200 people feared dead.
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#7  TWA-UAL crash over the Grand Canyon in '56 scared hell outta everyone...that's when those insurance booths multiplied.
Posted by: borgboy   2015-08-07 23:48  

#6  Ditto Ship.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-08-07 16:49  

#5  Hell I remember seeing off my dad and him buying that product from a vending machine. Eastern used to fly early Electras so it was a legit bet.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-07 15:38  

#4  Some of us with 'living memory' recall a time when insurance kiosks populated the airports across America cause annual losses were a dozen planes or more a year.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-07 09:34  

#3  The Sharks still pass on that knowledge
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-07 09:22  

#2  Not all the Huns finished the trip with Attila...
Posted by: Steve White   2015-08-07 08:47  

#1  Fascinating how in our non-history indoctrination classes no one seems to cover the number of ships that didn't make it from Europe to America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Century. Heck, just remember the Titanic last century.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-07 08:42  

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