A Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire U.S. figure skating team on its way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. All 72 on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. Theo de Laet, a farmer, was killed when struck by debris, and another farmer suffered injury when his leg was severed by flying debris. The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 707 in regular passenger service, 28 months after it was placed into commercial use. It is also the deadliest plane crash to occur on Belgian soil.