Events tagged with "mount carmel"

Historical Events tagged with "mount carmel"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

Accidents & Tragedies

United Airlines Flight 624 DC-6 Crash

June 17th, 1948 76 years ago

On June 17, 1948, United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashed near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, resulting in the deaths of all 43 individuals aboard. The aircraft was en route from New York City to Chicago when it encountered adverse weather conditions, which are believed to have contributed to the tragic accident. Investigators later determined that the plane had flown into low visibility conditions during a thunderstorm before going down.