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TIL that only two months after 9/11, on the 12th of November, an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, NYC, initially spawning concerns of another terror attack. The crashed killed all 260 people aboard, 5 people on the ground, and is the second deadliest plane accident on US soil.

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