I think the dubious honour still lies at Tennerife, where a plane taking off hit a plane landing on the same runway. The Tenerife disaster took place on March 27, 1977 at 17:06:56 local time (also UTC) when two Boeing 747 airliners collided at Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife North Airport) on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. 583 people were killed, making it the worst accident in aviation history.
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The correct term is 'flew in an airplane" because it means you were in the plane and on the plane means you were literally sitting on the fuselage of the plane.
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Herbert Hoover was president of the United States during the stock market crash of 1929.
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The Wright Brothers were the inventors of the first successful airplane. They took off on a short flight in Kitty Hawk, Indiana in 1914.