27. The Hally Family Looking Forward to Their Exciting Holiday
The Hally family was on their way to Kuala Lumpur looking forward to a wonderful holiday. In Amsterdam, they boarded flight 17 with Malaysia Airlines.
They never suspected their fate. A couple of hours into the flight, flying over Ukraine, the plane was shot down with a missile by pro-Russian insurgents. Most likely the Russians had mistaken it for an enemy plane. All 298 passengers died. This is the last image taken of the Hally family, minutes before take-off.
28. The Concorde’s Last Takeoff
The Concorde was a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic commercial airliner that seemingly operated smoothly. It’s maximum speed over twice the speed of sound and was the only plane to travel the route, Paris-New York in less than four hours. Unfortunately in 2000, as the Concorde lifted off on its way to New York, it ran over debris that punctured a tire and blew its fuel tank.
The plane immediately caught on fire as its nose pointed upwards lifting off the ground. Air France Flight 4590 crashed into a nearby hotel, killing all 109 passengers and crew as well as 4 bystanders on the ground. That spelled the ending of the Concorde and fast flights from Paris to New York.