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Wichita State University football team plane crash: near Loveland Pass, 8 miles west of Silver Plume: Colorado: Martin 4-0-4: The company president, serving as first officer, attempted to fly a poorly planned scenic route and the aircraft entered a box canyon from which it was unable to climb out, crashing into a mountain ridge.
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).
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
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]
A Eurocopter AS350D helicopter lost power and crash landed in an open field.The sole survivor reported that the pilot reset an engine chip light 5-10 times 20–25 minutes prior to the crash. 3 1 Pilot's decision to continue flight after known engine problem and the subsequent seizure of the number two engine bearing. [54] 1991-07-05
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi: 9 [8] 1939-11-17 C Spanish Air Force: Cap Juby Ju 52 ditching 10 [9] 1940-04-09 Ogwyn George 21 Male C RAF Sylling crash 9 [10] [11] 1941-10-30 Clarence Bates 41 Male C: Northwest Airlines: Northwest Airlines Flight 5: 14 Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later. [12] 1942-08-25 Sgt Andrew ...