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When Howard Hughes took his last breath it was 1:27 on the morning of April 5, 1976, and he was in an airplane over northern Mexico on his way to a Texas hospital. Decades earlier he'd built the planet's largest seaplane and aviated the circumference of the world in a record-setting 3 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes and 10 seconds.
On July 14, 1938, Hughes set another record by completing a flight around the world in just 91 hours (three days, 19 hours, 17 minutes), beating the previous record of 186 hours (seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes) set in 1933 by Wiley Post in a single-engine Lockheed Vega by almost four days.
Eccentric American billionaire Howard Hughes has died aged 70. One of the world's richest men, Mr Hughes was best known as a movie magnate, aviation pioneer and businessman. He had spent the last...
In Howard Hughes’s later years he became emaciated and deranged from the effects of a meagre diet and an excess of drugs. In 1976, at age 70, he died in flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston, Texas, to seek medical treatment. Legal battles over his estate ensued, and several “wills” were declared to be forgeries.
6 de abr. de 1976 · HOUSTON, April 5— Howard R. Hughes died today as mysteriously as he had lived. The reclusive 70‐year‐old billionaire was on the way from Acapulco, Mexico, to the Methodist Hospital here for ...
21 de abr. de 1976 · Contradictory accounts about the final days and illness of Howard R. Hughes have emerged from interviews and public statements about the reclusive billionaire's death on April 5.
16 de nov. de 2009 · Howard Robard Hughes, one of the richest men to emerge from the American West during the 20th century, dies while flying from Acapulco to Houston.
