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All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58 was a Japanese domestic flight from Chitose Airport to Haneda Airport, operated by All Nippon Airways (ANA). On 30 July 1971, at 02:04 local time, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-86F Sabre jet fighter collided with the Boeing 727 airliner operating the flight, causing both aircraft to crash.
July 30, 1971: All Nippon Airways Flight 58 collided with a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-86F fighter jet, while en route from Chitose Airport to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 162 passengers and crew on board the 727 died, the fighter jet pilot survived. All Nippon Airways Flight 58 was the worst crash in aviation history at the ...
The event became known in Japan as the Japan Airlines near miss incident above Suruga Bay (日本航空機駿河湾上空ニアミス事故, Nihonkōkūki surugawan jōkū niamisu jiko). The incident was attributed to errors made by air traffic controller (ATC) trainee Hideki Hachitani ( 蜂谷 秀樹 , Hachitani Hideki ) and trainee supervisor ...
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The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
On 26 April 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 pitches upwards, enters an aerodynamic stall at low altitude and crashes approximately 340 feet east-northeast of the centreline of the runway while on final approach to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan. 264 of the 271 people on board are killed in the crash.
United Airlines Flight 232, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 en route to Chicago from Denver, experiences a catastrophic failure of the titanium fan disk in its tail engine. The pilots try to land at Sioux City, Iowa. As the DC-10 descends it rolls right just above the ground.
Both aircraft caught fire and were written off. All 379 occupants onboard Flight 516 were evacuated, while five of the six crew members aboard the Coast Guard aircraft were killed; the pilot escaping with critical injuries. Flight 516 was the first time in 38 years that a Japan Airlines aircraft was