Bill Gilpin was killed in a weather-related accident near Toluca, Mexico in July 1932, on a flight from San Diego to Mexico City.

A third fatality occurred in a weather-related accident in Nova Scotia.

Civil defence chief Jorge Melendez said six people have been confirmed killed in weather-related accidents in El Salvador, and two others were missing.

The biggest threats will come instead from weather-related accidents, rogue militia, snipers and an estimated six million land mines scattered throughout the country, officials say.

The storms, however, caused a series of weather-related accidents and meant delays for thousands of commuters.

Officials at several hospital emergency rooms reported an increase in weather-related accidents yesterday.

An Air Force Special Operations helicopter crashed during a nighttime incursion into northern Afghanistan today, injuring four crew members, one of them seriously, in what the Pentagon said was a weather-related accident.

The severe weather and its aftermath caused at least 17 deaths across four US states and three Canadian provinces, while hundreds others were injured mostly in weather-related accidents and tornadoes.

Understandably, the band and its entourage have taken a few days off to gather themselves after the weather-related accident, which killed five people and injured dozens of others.

F.A.A. officials said the new radar would enable airplanes to detect dangerous wind shear conditions at John F. Kennedy and La Guardia Airports, and thus help prevent weather-related accidents.