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June 12, 1972: American Airlines Flight 96, a new McDonnell Douglas DC-10 en route from Los Angeles to New York, with stops in Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Buffalo Niagara International Airport, had its rear cargo door open in flight, causing an explosive decompression over Windsor, Ontario. Tail controls were damaged, but it ...
American Airlines Flight 711: near Springfield: Missouri: Convair CV-240: The crew is thought to have lost altitude awareness during approach, leading to a crash short of the runway. February 19, 1955 16 0 0 TWA Flight 260: Sandia Mountains: New Mexico: Martin 4-0-4: The aircraft struck terrain at the initial stages of approach.
Boeing 707-331 N761TW exploded while parked at McCarran International Airport after a bomb was placed on board; no casualties. [40] September 13, 1972 Flight 604, a Boeing 707-331C (N15712), ran off the runway on takeoff from San Francisco International Airport into San Francisco Bay and broke in two; all three crew survived. Two tires on the ...
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In 1963 Trans-Texas Airways came to Albuquerque, taking over service to the smaller cities in New Mexico that Continental had served. It later expanded with nonstop Douglas DC-9s to Dallas and Los Angeles. TTA became Texas International Airlines in 1969 and flew DC-9's from ABQ to Santa Fe and Roswell, New Mexico. The carrier peaked in 1975 ...
San Francisco International Airport: 5 July 1972: Boeing 737-200: Sacramento–San Francisco: Hijacking Flight 182: San Diego: 25 September 1978: Boeing 727-214: Sacramento–Los Angeles–San Diego: Mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 Flight 1771 The Smile of Stockton: near Paso Robles: 7 December 1987: BAe 146–200: Los Angeles–San Diego ...
A man had to be tackled and restrained by other passengers on board an American Airlines flight after he “aggressively” tried to open the plane door mid-flight.. The flight, AA1219 from ...
An ex-American Airlines MD-82 parked at the airport. In addition to the airport, RIAC is home to Millennium Transit Services, New Mexico Rehabilitation Center, a plastics manufacturer, and a candy manufacturer. Eastern New Mexico University has a campus there, and aircraft repair and refurbishing companies including AerSale have airliners ...