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A Brazilian fisherman claimed to have found a wheel from the missing plane June 18 that year. [7] [8] May 8, 1927: L'Oiseau Blanc (Levasseur PL.8) 2 (François Coli & Charles Nungesser) Unknown North Atlantic Ocean or Maine [9] This was an attempted transatlantic flight competing for the Orteig Prize. [10] May 26, 1927: Airco DH.9 (G-IAAB) [11] 2
A fire developed in an aft lavatory, eventually filling the plane with smoke and destroying some electrical cables. The plane made a successful emergency landing, but during evacuation a flashover occurred that caused the death of half the original occupants. January 11, 1983 3 0 0 United Airlines Flight 2885: Romulus: Michigan: Douglas DC-8-54F
This is a list of previously missing aircraft that disappeared in flight for reasons that were initially never definitely determined. The status of "previously missing" is a grey area, as there is a lack of sourcing on both the amount of debris that needs to be recovered, as well as the amount of time it takes after the crash for the aircraft to be recovered while searching, to fit this ...
A United Airlines flight was taking off from Houston, Texas, when staff members were forced to evacuate the plane — and a video captured by a passenger shows that a fire may have broken out.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
There were 104 passengers and five crew members on board at the time of the incident. The flight has since been rescheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Wild images taken from an airplane captured the devastating Palisades Fire as flights heading into Southern California were forced to divert — and as the flames spread over nearly 3,000 acres ...
The NTSB also received a report analyzing 250,327 departures involving 737-500s and found that only four of those departures (less than 0.002%) had experienced a crosswind above 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), [12] meaning that for a commercial pilot to have real-life experience with crosswinds anywhere near the velocity that hit Continental ...