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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi: Convair CV-240: The aircraft crashed due to fuel exhaustion caused by the crew's failure to adequately monitor its fuel. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash. April 4, 1977 72 22 22 Southern Airways Flight 242: New Hope: Georgia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
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).
1956 Paris DC-6 crash: Paris-Orly Airport, France Crashed on takeoff [21] Gheorghe Caranda: Romania 1912 Army officer, first Romanian airplane accident casualty Farman: Bucharest, Romania Plane crash during training on Cotroceni Airfield Mel Carnahan: United States 2000 Governor of Missouri: Cessna 335: Goldman, Missouri, United States Thunderstorm
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF, registered N113WA. The aircraft was manufactured in 1980, with the manufacturing number 47821, built as the 320th DC-10. It was equipped with 3 General Electric CF6-50C2 engines and had 6,327 airframe hours before the crash. [1] [2]
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.
After drifting out of DC airspace and into northern Virginia, the plane finally crashed to earth in a remote mountain region between Staunton and Montebello in the Shenandoah Valley, about 150 ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
The 1960 New York mid-air collision killed all 128 people on both aircraft and six on the ground. 19 January 1961 Aeronaves de México Flight 401, a DC-8-21 (XA-XAX, named 20 de Noviembre) was damaged beyond repair following an aborted take off at Idlewild Airport, New York, United States, killing four of 106 on board. [2] 30 May 1961