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Air France Flight 4590. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27-year operational history.
An Embraer E-175 taking off. Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne. For aircraft traveling vertically, this is known as liftoff. For aircraft that take off horizontally, this usually involves starting with a transition from moving along the ground on a runway.
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).
It was the first loss of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, the worst disaster involving a Martin 2-0-2 to date, and with 37 fatalities, still ranks as the worst air crash in Wisconsin history. [ 189 ] On November 18, 1966, the crew departed Barksdale AFB , Louisiana, in B-52G (tail number 58‑0228) on a training flight to K. I. Sawyer AFB south of ...
2018 Horizon Air Q400 crash. N449QX, the aircraft involved in the incident, photographed two months before the crash. On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac) by 28-year-old Richard Russell (Sky King), a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting ...
October 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM. The National Transportation Safety Board said an Alaska Airlines jet taking off Sept. 12 at Nashville International Airport was cleared by air traffic controllers on ...
More than 180 people were evacuated Thursday from a Ryanair Boeing passenger jet after it caught fire while taxiing to take off at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy. The incident comes two days ...
A Turkish Airlines plane. A Turkish Airlines pilot died during a flight heading from Seattle to Istanbul, the airliner confirmed. Captain İlçehin Pehlivan, 59, “fainted” mid-flight and died ...