Video: 'ABC News Update - Lithuania Declares Indpenedance - March 1990'

(Sunday, March 11, 1990, 10:44 p.m. Eastern European Time; during the Cold War) — Lithuania tonight proclaimed itself a sovereign state, legally free of the Soviet Union, and named the leaders of a non-Communist government to negotiate their future relations with Moscow. Continue reading Parliament in Lithuania, 124-0, declares nation independent 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 11 1990) →

Video: 'Mandela walking out of prison with Winnie'

(Sunday, February 11, 1990, 4:15 p.m. South Africa Standard Time) — Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, walked out of Victor Verster Prison near Paarl today with his wife, Winnie, after serving more than 27 years. Continue reading South African black activist Nelson Mandela freed after 27 years in captivity 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 11 1990) →

Video: 'Air Crash Investigations Mayday 02x06 Missing Over New York Avianca Flight 52'

(Thursday, January 25, 1990, 9:33:24 p.m. EST) — Avianca Flight 52, a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá to New York, via Medellín, ran out of fuel and crash tonight onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).

Eight of the nine crew members, including all three flight crew members, and 65 of the 149 passengers on board the Boeing 707 were killed.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash occurred due to the flight crew failing to properly declare a fuel emergency, failure to use an airline operational control dispatch system, inadequate traffic flow management by the Federal Aviation Administration, and the lack of standardized understandable terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel states.