{"id":5125,"date":"2014-09-25T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2014-09-25T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:15:43","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-september-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for September 25, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Dubious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dubious distinction of the first fatal accident involving a jet airliner fell to a de Havilland Comet of Canadian Pacific Airlines which crashed during take off from Karachi, Pakistan on March 3, 1953, although the aircraft was on a positioning flight and there were no passengers on board. \u00a0Eleven crew members and de Havilland staff members were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0760718768\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0760718768&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkId=B7E5Z3Y6EHIV4OZL\">Air Disasters: Including Dialogue from the Black Box<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=theasylumeclecti&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0760718768\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video about the crash:<\/p>\n<p>[TUBE]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qp2FMS05KI0[\/TUBE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Dubious Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The dubious distinction of the first fatal accident involving a jet airliner fell to a de Havilland Comet of Canadian Pacific Airlines which crashed during take off from Karachi, Pakistan on March 3, 1953, although the aircraft was on a positioning flight and there were no passengers on board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}