Question: Singer Annette Snell died in a airplane crash during a forced landing on a highway in what state?

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Forced Landing (film): Forced Landing is a 1941 action film directed by Gordon Wiles and distributed by Paramount Pictures.  The film recounts the exploits of a pilot in Mosaque, an imaginary country in the midst of turmoil.  "Forced Landing" stars Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther and Evelyn Brent.

Deadstick landing: A deadstick landing, also called a dead-stick landing, is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land.  The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, which in most aircraft are either fully or partially functional without engine power, but to the traditional wooden propeller, which without power would just be a "dead stick".

August 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash: The August 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash happened on 18 August 1926 at Hurst, Kent when Blériot 155 F-AIEB of Air Union hit a barn and crashed whilst attempting to make a forced landing in bad weather.  Two passengers were killed in the accident, and the pilot died a day later.

Airlines PNG Flight 1600: Airlines PNG Flight 1600 was a scheduled regular commuter passenger flight that made a forced landing in a densely forested and mountainous area near the mouth of the Gogol River, Papua New Guinea on 13 October 2011.  28 of the 32 on board died.  The aircraft involved, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-100 (known as a Dash 8), was operating Airlines PNG's scheduled domestic service from Lae Nadzab Airport to Madang Airport.  The crash site was over 40 km south of the destination airport.

Annette Snell: Annette Snell (March 22, 1945 – April 4, 1977) was an American rhythm and blues singer who recorded in the 1960s and 1970s.  She died in the Southern Airways Flight 242 crash.

With a Song in My Heart (film): With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.  She entertained the troops in World War II despite having to walk with crutches.  The film stars Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Helen Westcott and Una Merkel.  Froman herself supplied Hayward's singing voice.

Snell Exhibition: The Snell Exhibition is an annual scholarship awarded to students of the University of Glasgow to allow them to undertake postgraduate study at Balliol College, Oxford.  The award was founded by the bequest of Sir John Snell in a will made in 1677, although the original stipulation referred to the University of Oxford, rather than Balliol in particular.  Snell died on 6 August 1679, but wrangling over the will meant that it was nearly twenty years before the first scholarships were awarded; the first four Snell Exhibitioners were admitted to Balliol in mid-1699.

Forced landing: A forced landing is a landing by an aircraft made under factors outside the pilot's control, such as the failure of engines, systems, components or weather which makes continued flight impossible.  For a full description of these, see article on "emergency landing".  However the term also means a landing that has been forced by interception.

Southern Airways Flight 242: Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9-31 jet, registered N1335U, that executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977.

1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash: The 1958 Dan-Air Avro York airplane crash was a fatal accident involving an Avro York 685 York C.1 cargo aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a non-scheduled international all-cargo service between Karachi, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India.  The aircraft crashed on 25 May 1958 during a forced landing at Gurgaon, Haryana, India, after an engine had caught fire en route from Karachi to Delhi.  Four of the five occupants of the aircraft were killed.

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Answer: Georgia