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EgyptAir Flight MS990 (MSR990) was a scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo International Airport, with a stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City. On October 31, 1999, the Boeing 767-300ER operating the route crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (100 km) south of Nantucket Island ...
Gameel Al-Batouti (Arabic: جميل البطوطي; also rendered " Gamil El Batouti " or " El Batouty " in U.S. official reports; 2 February 1940 – 31 October 1999) was a pilot for EgyptAir and a former officer for the Egyptian Air Force. On 31 October 1999, he and 216 passengers and crew on board EgyptAir Flight 990 were killed when he ...
Convair 880 cockpit. The airliner never became widely used, and the production line shut down after only three years. The 880's five-abreast seating made it unattractive to airlines, while Boeing was able to outcompete it with the Boeing 720, which could be sold at a significantly lower price, as it was a minimal modification of the existing 707.
American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia. On December 20, 1995, the Boeing 757-200 flying this route ( registration N651AA [ 1 ] ) crashed into a mountain in Buga , Colombia, around 9:40 pm killing 151 of ...
A. 1999 Air Botswana ATR 42 crash. Air Fiji Flight 121. All Nippon Airways Flight 61. American Airlines Flight 1420. Asian Spirit Flight 100.
Flight 255's captain was 57-year-old John R. Maus, from Las Vegas, Nevada. [7] Maus was an experienced pilot who had worked for the airline for 31 years, flying Fairchild F-27, Boeing 727, Boeing 757, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft. Maus had logged 20,859 flight hours during his career, including 1,359 hours on the ...
Suicide by pilot is an aviation event in which a pilot deliberately crashes or attempts to crash an aircraft as a suicide act, with or without the intention of causing harm to passengers on board or people on the ground. If others are killed, it may be considered a type of murder–suicide. [1] It is suspected to have been a possible cause in ...
In some cases an off-duty pilot has assisted the captain and first officer to avert a disaster