TAM Fokker 100 Explosion Launches Engineer into Free Fall, July 9, 1997
An explosion aboard a Brazilian airline TAM Fokker 100 launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into a 2,400 meters free fall.
Date: July 9, 1997
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