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Arrow Air Flight 1285R memorial at Gander Lake, with a DC-8 taking off in the background Arrow Air Flight 1285R memorial in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. On the day of the crash, responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Organization (de-facto part of Hezballah [11]).
LAC Columbia DC-8-53 HK-2380 named Capt Luis C Donaldo V was damaged beyond repair after leaving the runway at Barranquilla, Colombia. [1] 12 December 1985 Arrow Air DC-8-63CF N950JW was operating Flight 1285 when it crashed on departure from Gander, Newfoundland. [1] All 256 on board were killed. 31 March 1988
1966 Air New Zealand DC-8 crash; A. Aeronaves de México Flight 401; Aeroservicios Ecuatorianos Flight 767-103; Air Canada Flight 621; Air Transport International ...
December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285R, a chartered McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, crashes shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador), while taking 248 soldiers of the United States Army ' s 101st Airborne Division from West Germany to the United States for Christmas, killing all 256 people on board.
The crash site was discovered 47 years later with no survivors, in September 1994, on Mount Elsay in North Vancouver, B.C. [20] 12 August 1948 Canadair DC-4M-1 North Star, Fin 185 CF-TEL crash-landed in flames short of the Sydney, Nova Scotia, runway. All 11 passengers plus crew escaped. 8 April 1954 Flight 9
The crash of Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 was featured in the first episode of the 18th season in the Canadian documentary show Mayday, also known as Air Disasters in the United States and as Air Crash Investigation in Europe and the rest of the world. The episode was titled "Nuts and Bolts". [6]
The first officer was 37-year-old Tim Hupp who had logged 5,082 flight hours, with 3,135 of them on the DC-8 (1,148 hours as a flight engineer and 1,992 hours as a first officer). The flight engineer was 57-year-old Jose Montalbo, who had logged 21,697 flight hours, including 7,697 hours on the DC-8. Ramon Papel, a pilot at Buffalo Airways, was ...
The CVR was completely destroyed by impact, explosion, and a post-crash fire. 1985-12-12 1285R: Arrow Air: Douglas DC-8-63CF: Gander International Airport, Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Accident The CVR was unusable as its cockpit area microphone was inoperative at the time of the accident and did not record any information. [32 ...