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1956-06-05 - Historic Twin Cities
On this date in 1956, an Air Force F89 Scorpion fighter jet carrying 104 live rockets crashed into a car on a road adjacent to Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport). A 38-year-old Minneapolis woman and her 5-year-old daughter were killed. Her husband and son escaped from the car before it burst into flames; […]