Template:Did you know nominations/1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 02:42, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster
- ... that an air traffic controller's mixup of two planes' locations caused 16 skydivers to drown when they unknowingly jumped from above Lake Erie? Source: Jackson, Tom (2017-08-14). "Disaster 50 years ago killed 16 sport parachutists". Sandusky Register. Ogden Newspapers. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
Moved to mainspace by Tamzin (talk). Self-nominated at 01:44, 10 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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@Tamzin: Nice work! Earwigs score [satisfactory], Hook is interesting, and length is also within the limit. Thanks RV (talk) 15:45, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- @RAJIVVASUDEV: Hope it's all right, I've made a small post-review tweak to the hook, changing "over" to "from above", to avoid the potential misreading that they somehow jumped from one side of Lake Erie to another. Thanks for the review! -- 'zin[is short for Tamzin] (she|they|xe) 16:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC)